If you’ve been following my photography you’ll have seen a fair amount of HDR images. I tend to try to not overdo the use of HDR, and by that i mean that i try to keep a certain element of the reality of the scene. However one in a while it’s fun to just play…
Here’s a HDR pan of the view from my balcony, stitched from 10 shots, in Photomatix. I tend to apply the HDR effect to each set of 3 different exposures first and then stitch them in Photoshop. I guess it would be possible to create 3 different exposures of the final panorama and then HDR them in Photomatix, but due to the extreme exposures in the -2ev and +2ev images I could never really get Photoshop to to the stitching right, which led to alignment errors in Photomatix. The final color correction is then done in Lightrrom.
You can find a larger version of this image on my Flickr page.