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My Disappointing HDR image

HDR photography can make a scene look so much more dramatic and interesting and it can solve the big problem of having blown out highlights or black shadows, by having different exposures of the scene to get detail in the shadows, midtones and highlights, and then combines all the exposures together with software, to get a scene with great detail in all areas. This is what makes HDR photography so awesome. There have been many times though, when I have been very disappointed with the HDR image created of a scene.

I am at the scene and think this will look so great as a HDR image, so I take the exposures, rush home to load the photos and then create the HDR image and it is just plain boring or just looks very bad. I try different software settings and the final HDR image still wasn’t worth the effort. Do you ever have that happen? Do you have any examples of a scene that you thought would make a great HDR image, but didn’t? If so let us hear about it and see the HDR image that disappointed you, and maybe we can suggest something that might have helped create an awesome HDR image.