This picture consist of seven exposures (-4 to +3 EV).
HDR:ed in Dynamic Photo and saved as five different outputs.
Layered in PS CS4 and altered opacity and levels for each layer. Merged, cloned out some black spots on the petals.
"Portrait noise reduction" with Imagenomic Noisware Professional. USM and save for the web.
More flower pics with almost the same treatment can be found in my album Blommor - Rakt på
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I thought this was a very striking image when I was voting on the HDR challenge. So much so, I gave it quite a high score, even though I'm not sure HDR really works that well for flowers.
I think the centered composition worked very well for this image and the white against the black background was excellent.
As one of the purposes of using HDR is to bring out the details in the shadows and highlights, I think it would have been nice to see a bit more detail in the centre of the flower, however that is a minor nit pick.
Overall very well done image. I suppose the main reasons it didn't score higher is a) it's a flower and quite often these are not appreciated on DPC b) some people did not think it was HDR.
The treatment works well, making the fine veins of the petals into the star of this shot. I'm not a huge floral fan, but I can recognize well done, nonetheless.
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