Single Exposure vs

HDR, Color vs. Black & White vs. Lightroom Preset
Like many photographers I like to be out shooting and I prefer to have as much done in-camera as possible, but there are often challenging lighting situations which warrant exploring various shooting and post-processing techniques.  For this dark room in the Standard Mill at Bodie State Historic Park, severely back-lit by the opposing windows yet also lit by an incandescent light above, I compare a single exposure with three different 5-exposure results, then I get more aggressive with those three in Lightroom.  

You can decide for yourself which of the 7 results turned out best, as I lead you through the workflow for each of them in this post on my blog:  http://activesole.blogspot.com/2013/10/post-processing-color-vs-b-vs-lightroom.html

Which do you prefer?  This is the result of 5 exposures pre-processed in +Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, HDR processed in Photomatix, and re-adjusted in Lightroom with an Aged Photo preset, plus some extra work on the equipment using the new radial filters in Lightroom 5.
#technique   #hdrphotography   #lightroom5  

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