Kumamoto in HDR – Part 2

Time to work on the HDR compositions! Here’s Part 2.:)

I finally managed to get some much nicer bracketed exposures of Kumamoto Castle on Saturday morning – the day before departure. Like the picture taken from my blog post “Meals with a View”, these exposures were taken at the balcony garden in front of Restaurant Matsuri:

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Both of these two HDR compositions were created from a five bracket shot series each.

I went easy on tone mapping to get a more naturalistic look for the next three compositions. Firstly, the one below was taken near the entrance of Kyu-Hosokawa Gyobutei:

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And these last two compositions along the road running around the outskirts of Kumamoto Castle. The wall on either side of the two pictures is Hyakken Wall.

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There’s two more stacks of HDR exposures left: and that’s for Suizenji Gardens and Kyu-Hosokawa Gyobutei. Those are a lot harder to process as lighting was either awful – as in the case of Suizenji Gardens – or low light, as was the case for Hosokawa Mansion. I don’t think they’re going to look as nice as those here in this post.

3 thoughts on “Kumamoto in HDR – Part 2

  1. I like the first photo! It sort of conveys a melancholic-nostalgic mood. Power! :D

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