The Sunday Challenge - HDR

I must say that I prefer the original version, too, with BeFunky a close second. I have found HDR to be a very mixed bag. I think it is most effective with landscape shots; maybe that's why all my favorite HDR images are landscape and city scenes. Great effort, Karen! :-)

love the be funky and the original :-D

O.k. - on the first sight I immediately know which one I don't like! ;-DD
On the second view I must say the original is very beautiful and I like also the BeFunky one but the PIXLR is also not bad! And I like your idea to show this different versions!

Im with the Befunky after the original

Original is the best.

I like the original best

Very well done. I love seeing the different results put together like this.

Great idea to do this Karen. I like the PIXLR version, lovely dark tones in the bokeh, but I think I prefer the original :-)

I love the original and Befunky - as I have thought for quite some time, the PicMonkey HDR is simply too harsh, I must speak to Brenda about that!

Thanks PaulO. To be fair, the PicMonkey pic is on full slider power. I think you could get a nicer result there if you wanted.

Great idea producing a collage using different software Karen! As for which one I prefer, BeFunky gets my vote! :)

I like the original best, it's a really nice portrait of an iris, one of my favourite flowers . . .

I guess Befunky would be my choice ... though the PicMonkey version is using the default setting and you could have used the slider to bring it more in line with the other three.

Good point Norm. I didn't plan on doing a collage or I probably would have used pics that were at similar settings. The PicMonkey pic was my original choice for this challenge, but I decided to do a collage at the last minute with the other photos I had made. PicMonkey sliders were on "full power" here to show just what damage can be done with HDR. The others were very minimal as you could tell. I'm sure you could get a nicer result using less on PicMonkey.

I looked at the image I posted with Picmonkey HDR ... and while I could create a similar image ... it would not pick up the wisps of clouds I got by using three images and combining them.

Thank you everybody for all your thoughtful comments!! I would like to respond to each post, but I'm trying to not overdo it on the computer right now. Thanks for understanding.

Spectacular color and a superb series of different versions.

Thank you so much Ron. :)

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