Canyonlands HDR

[choronr]

Taking the good advice of Oshyan, I tried one of his suggestions: Using Oloneo, a new program to enhance my original image 'Canyonlands'. I had reworked the vegetation a bit and increased the contrast a little and saved the image as a .tif file. Then, taking  the .tif into Photoshop, I made a second adjustment darkening the sky a bit saving this second file.

I took both .tif files into Oloneo and created a HDR tone mapping image using the two .tif files. From here, I took the saved adjustments back into Photoshop and saved the image as a .jpg.

I hope you like the results. I have always tended to be a bit too conservative with post work adjustments thinking with the purest attitude. Maybe it is time to start thinking out of the box ... maybe too saturated, we'll see.

[Dune]

I took a look at Oloneo as well, but IMO you can do the same with PS. By hand, so all controllable, and doesn't cost you extra. Just create two (or more) layers with different color/darkness/contrast settings, and start wiping away in the top layer where you want the bottom layer(s) to darken or lighten up. Use a soft brush of course.

[Oshyan]

Real tone mapping is a lot more difficult to achieve "manually". Oloneo looks promising, especially the more advanced controls on the bottom of the right tool palette, but for the more basic results Bob wants, you're probably right that some manual tuning in PS might be best.

- Oshyan

[Dune]

You may be right, I didn't dive into Oloneo that deep...