Hi hendrik,
Please accept the following views as my personal ones and also that they come from a person not necessarily expert at photography.
Technically It looks like you have achieved a good stitch and particularly on the second image, a good exposure since shooting into the sun.
Not being able to zoom into the first image, I wonder why you took so many more shots than the second one, seeing that they are both the same size on screen. (BTW my screen is not calibrated and I see the second image better in photoshop). Perhaps the intended use for each image varies. The HDR element has lightened the shadow areas, but in my preference a little too much. I would have expected a little more shadow in some of the areas especially where the centre building is shading the foliage and foreground. Nevertheless a technically good rendition. Knowing how bright the sun is in Australia i would also like to see more contrast, but only a little.Thanks for posting the panos and accepting other peoples views on the results.

Last edited by irpano (2010-08-21 03:58:06)

hi Irpano & taf,

thanks for looking, and i appreciate the comments.

Irpano, I would hope you are expressing your personal view :-) and I do appreciate what you are saying and i will take it a bit further. I  had scaled the images down to make a more web friendly, so i need to work out how to present them better.

As for contrast, yes, I wasn't sure if I was going too far which is why I posted them up for some comments and I hope to get more.

You are very right, that the sun is extremely hard to shoot into, which was the whole point of this excersice, but I actually got there a little to late to the shoot, traffic was really bad, even at that time of day.

The intended purpose on both of these are to be printed, the top one is about 60x20in @300dpi as is. I know there is still more work to be done on these. I want to get a little more detail of of them, and yes part of that is also to increase the contrast.

Another reason for posting this was to show a shot not shot in the middle of day, as most shots are here.

the link is really nice, thanks - keep commenting, i will have another go a bit later in the week, when the paid work is out of the way :-)

Henrik

how do i present this, so you can zoom into the image?

Thanks irpano,

Well its something I will have to work out, probably need to ask this question on one of the other areas here.

thanks

Henrik

Henrik, Heres an example of what I call good HDR. http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=4886
John