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Hi All,

I recently picked up the Tamron 17-50mm 2.8 for my Canon (Non VC version because I didn't realise there was even a VC version... )... and I went out hunting for snaps!

It's been raining a lot recently and so I went for a short stroll down to Sydney University.
Managed to grab this picture with my Tripod at an akward angle.

I grabbed 3 images bracketed at different exposures and then afterwards convered them to the cs3 .psd format and then put them through photomatix.

Here's the link:
http://flic.kr/p/7CW9Ad
Here's the image:


Now, the wierdest thing is that in Photomatix, the orange spot lights turned to that blue colour and the blue colour in the sky turned orange. It gives it quite a dark and gothic feel.
Take note that green is the same.

I put the files through CS3's HDR function and it came out with the colours correct.

Note that this is what the building looks like after putting it through Photomatix normally:
http://flic.kr/p/7AR2ku



Does anyone know how this happens in Photomatix?
It's the first time I've ever seen images ligthts invert using that process.

Either way I cleaned up a few things on the picture and feel free to critique

Im not sure about your strange problem but I like the pics. Very nice

niiiiiiiiiiiiiice... have to start producing some HDR imaging...

I would like to call this.. inspirational and motivating in terms of WANTING to go out and shoot some HDR work...

That first image is hauntingly beautiful - gothic is the right description for it.

Frank

Thanks all!

I'm pretty happy with the non VC Tammy as well...
It puts me $300 closer to the Canon 10-22mm which I'm wanting!

I'm going to spend more time dedicated to reverse enginerring what occured with the light cause that would be pretty useful to know if I want to reapply that lighting next time.

And glad to hear you're inspired Photomarcs

Both are good but he 1st one really stands out with the detail and colours of the building and interior.