ATTRACTING- Improving Digital Images With HDR & Tone Mapping

I was recently underwhelmed by the standard photographs I was able to produce on a hiking trip to Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. The difficulty is the haze, the contrast and the need to take wide angle photos to capture the majesty and size of the mountains.

I find this process very interesting and take a lot of HDRs because I'm not yet sure what's possible.

Some might not like the effect in the last photograph as they could feel its not real like the second one is. In that case you should focus on the HDR and use only touches of tone mapping.

You might be interested to know a bit more about High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and tone mapping - I would suggest you just google it or visit the www.stuckincommons.com site of Trey Ratcliff who is acknowledged by many pros as one of the more knowledgeable people on HDR.