I shooted this after great dnb party, featuring Pendulum and other great d'n'b artists from Russia. I woke up at about 3 p.m. with feeling of wanting shot something And I made a lot of shots in that day. I was just walking through the streets and parks and shooted everything

There where cloudy and windless. And it was good time - absence of wind is very good for shooting HDRi photographs and shots with reflections Cuz there are no moving parts on trees and no waves in water.

This started out as 3 differently exposed RAW images (Auto bracket -2/0/+2).
Taken with a Canon EOS350D with a Canon 18-55mm lens set at 25mm f/4.0 with ISO seted at 100.

Firstly, 3 RAW images were putted in Photoshop CS3 and merged in one HDR image by command File->Automate->Merge to HDR...

Then I opened saved HDR image in Photomatix and set approx. this settings:

Strength: 100
Color saturation: 20
Light smoothing: medium
Luminosity: 10

Color Temperature: +8
Saturation Highlights:+5
Saturation Shadows: +5

Microcontrast: +9
Micro-smoothing: 5 (for not so noizy result)


After that I putted tonemapped 32-bit image in Photoshop again, and converted in 8-bit with "Local Adaptation" method: Radius and Threshold were not changed. Low point of Toning Curve was setted in start of histrogram, and then I played a little with it for getting more contrast (blacks - more black, lights - lighter).

So.. This is basic method of creating HDR images, without using after that any adjustments.. There are other ways for doing it, but I usually use this one.