Javorová dolina

Incredible light and depth - beautifully seen. A bit like something out of Tolkien's ...

Some of the foreground (on the right) slightly too dark for me, perhaps a little gentle localised burning ...

This picture was made from ~50 photos in recent beta Hugin which can create HDRs. That output was then processed using 'Mantiuk' tone mapping operator (TMO) in Qtpfsgui. On my screen it is not very dark, however the shades look a bit unrealistic. I spent a bit of time mangling TMOs' parameters, and this was the best result (or at least most realistic) I got. Maybe I should have adjusted tone curves of the HDR before processing with TMO. Or maybe I should write my own TMO that reproduces shades better, is not so memory greedy (1G RAM is far too few for this picture in full size), and also handles 360° panoramas correctly...? :]

Responding only two years later ... sorry. I used to go to the Tatras (on the Polish side) in the summer when I was little, later just came in winter to ski. I think I should revisit the idea of summer trips, this time taking my camera with me.