The Vasco Da Gama Soccer Club, James Street North – Hybrid HDR

The James Street North area of Hamilton, Ontario has a rich Portuguese cultural history. This can be seen today in the Portuguese influenced restaurants, bakeries, grocery stores and, in the cultural clubs. The Vasco Da Gama Soccer Club is one of the most visibly prominent buildings in the area, in part due to its architecture but, at the Christmas period, the lighting. - JW

The image was created from a 3 shot auto bracket (+/-2EV ISO320) using a tripod-mounted Nikon D5000. The Nikon was fitted with an 18-55mm VR lense set at 24mm, f/5.6. The resulting images were processed with Luminance/Qtpfsgui to produce the base HDR image using the setup information embedded in the file name and as shown below. The base HDR image was then loaded into GIMP along with the 3 images used to make the base HDR, and by selective deletion using a soft brush, various parts of the base HDR image were replaced by corresponding elements of the original images. This was done to repair the artifacts arising from HDR processing and tone-mapping, as well as to get a more natural look in certain areas. Once done, the resulting multi-layer adjusted image was flattened, border added, and, scaled to 1024 high for posting.

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Qtpfsgui 1.9.3 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.1
Saturation Factor: 1.2
Detail Factor: 2
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PreGamma: 1