St. Egidius Church
Two days ago I uploaded a photo taken from the tower of the St. Egidius Church in Bardejov. This time I’m uploading a photo of the church :). I took this shot last weekend while visiting relatives there.
This was taken around 1 hour after the sunset, so still in the blue hour. The church was already lit up, but all the clouds have vanished. So I tried to use the best sky color from the original shots, to make it at least a little bit interesting :)
HDR from three shots, taken with Canon 450D with Sigma 10-20mm lens, from a tripod
Nice shot! Just wondering how you stop the sky from becoming very grainy when you take an HDR image at this time of night? I’m just learning and having a bit of trouble with the sky… Have a look at http://dailyphotonz.com/2011/06/23/june-23-christchurch-art-gallery/ for an idea of what I mean, and any help would be appreciated. Thanks, and keep the fantastic shots coming :-)
There are many thing you can do. Either try masking one of the original shots into the HDR, or try using Noiseware (or different noise reducing plugins), but what mostly helps is playing more with Photomatix. Try lowering strength, luminance and micro contrast. Also adding more micro smoothing helps.
Awesome, thanks for the tips! Much appreciated :-)
Glad to help :)