HDR Waves

Recently, as many of you may know, I am addicted to HDR image processing. Last night I finally met up with Jackie (geckokid), who just came back from England, the place he studies. We went out and talked, and managed to take some really cool images of the night-time Hong Kong.

The sky was so beautiful on that day, and the orange clouds were just delicious. We couldn't help and shoot some really good images for HDR processing. Let's talk a look at what we have.

This is taken at the podium level of the IFC Mall. With HDR imaging, the sky and the skyline can be shown in one image with very good contrast.

And then I also shot something really cool...

A little lamp post on the podium. The effect after HDR processing was dramatic, and I pushed up the contrast a little bit more and got this saturated image. FInally, we went on the bridge in the main road of Central, and I got this shot:

This image is also an HDR image, but I did a lot of masking and painting work on it (except to the sky damn it) because the bottom part was not good after the HDR process. I guess the software can't take good care of fast-moving objects like glowing lines or stuff. Anyway, since I am exarggerating things, I don't mind pushing up the contrast even higher, together with saturation, to get this blue plus orange shot.

Photography is really cool! Tell me what you think!

And btw, a really nice evening with Jackie!