{"id":2257,"date":"2010-10-30T23:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T03:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2010-10-31T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T04:07:13","slug":"my-first-blended-hdr-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/my-first-blended-hdr-photo","title":{"rendered":"My First Blended HDR Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is my first attempt at blending an HDR photo to remove the <strong>halo artifact<\/strong> that that frequently appears where <strong>the sky meets hard edges<\/strong>. In the photo below I did my best to minimize the halo with <strong>highlight smoothing<\/strong> in Photomatix, but it is still there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemapped.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2258\" title=\"iceberg-canyon-tonemapped\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemapped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemapped.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemapped-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemapped-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 85vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is the same photo after <strong>masking the sky<\/strong> and <strong>blending it with the -2 RAW exposure<\/strong>. Much improved!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemap-blended.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2110 aligncenter\" title=\"iceberg-canyon-tonemap-blended\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemap-blended.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemap-blended.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemap-blended-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/iceberg-canyon-tonemap-blended-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 85vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first attempt at blending an HDR photo to remove the halo artifact that that frequently appears where the sky meets hard edges. In the photo below I did my best to minimize the halo with highlight smoothing in Photomatix, but it is still there. Here is the same photo after masking the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2010\/my-first-blended-hdr-photo\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My First Blended HDR Photo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}