church and lane in HDR

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This is my first attempt at playing with HDR, Im not very happy with the skys as there seems to be a halo around the tree tops, maybe when we get some cloudy skys this might work better. Or someone here will tell me what Im doing wrong.

Hi Barry I see what you mean about the halo... Nice pic other than that. Can you go through the process you used this might give the guys some ideas as to what caused this..

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I open 3 nikon raw files into a program called Photomatix, 1 of these were underexposed by 2 stops, 1 was normal and the other one overexposed by 2 stops, I then choose HDR in Photomatix and then Generate, next I went into Tone Mapping and played about with lots of sliders (can't remember which ones - but most of them ). Then saved as jpeg and opened into CS2 and played with levels then posted here.

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Very nice landscape, nice composition, details and lighting, sorry can't help with the halo, don't have that program.

Hi Barry it is a lovely photo .. and yes that halo over the land is not good .. Jadon might have some idea .. I know that he has done a fair amount of this HDR, or perhaps if you check on the net they might have discussed it as to what causes it .. .. It's really good when it is done well ... I think ...
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Hi Barry .. found some info for you Flickr: Discussing avoid the halo effect in HDR Skies (please read the rules!!!!)
sure hope this helps with the halo effect ..
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Thanks for that, I will have another go later this week.

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