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The photo is taken from on top of a parking garage, of Z's Bar and Restaurant in Grand Rapids (MI, USA). The place itself doesn't really fit the bill of "corner bar", it's in the nightlife district, and is one of those "packed with yay-hoos" sort of places, but given the angle and the classically evocative neon, I could make an artistic exception.

It's another HDR. I'd bracketed this out with about 8 or 9 shots, but the wind was something fierce out there, meaning that some of the shots were mushy or improperly aligned, so I ended up cutting it down to 3-4 images to keep the HDR merge from going blurry or painterly. I exported it using Photoshop (CS2)'s "Exposure and Gamma" output option.

Although it's merely a contrast/brightness adjustment (As opposed to the local "make everything have an obnoxious halo around it" adjustment), the HDR merge and the 32-bit color space nonetheless give even that tweaking much more latitude in creating an image with more information throughout.

Question: Does this look too dark? One of my monitors shows it dark and one shows it light. Is the truck in the lower right easily distinguishable?

Description
The photo is taken from on top of a parking garage, of Z's Bar and Restaurant in Grand Rapids (MI, USA). The place itself doesn't really fit the bill of "corner bar", it's in the nightlife district, and is one of those "packed with yay-hoos" sort of places, but given the angle and the classically evocative neon, I could make an artistic exception.

It's another HDR. I'd bracketed this out with about 8 or 9 shots, but the wind was something fierce out there, meaning that some of the shots were mushy or improperly aligned, so I ended up cutting it down to 3-4 images to keep the HDR merge from going blurry or painterly. I exported it using Photoshop (CS2)'s "Exposure and Gamma" output option.

Although it's merely a contrast/brightness adjustment (As opposed to the local "make everything have an obnoxious halo around it" adjustment), the HDR merge and the 32-bit color space nonetheless give even that tweaking much more latitude in creating an image with more information throughout.

Question: Does this look too dark? One of my monitors shows it dark and one shows it light. Is the truck in the lower right easily distinguishable?