Istanbul, I need to go back.

[Ed911]

Originally Posted by Jacobovs

You are so right. I had a hard time with the lighting. Way too dark in some places and too bright in others. I took a few pictures with out good results. So, out of frustration I decided to bracket the shots and tonemap them later. So All of my ceiling shots and the shots in the mosques are HDR( hand held). I used the bracketing feature in my D3 set the frame rate to 9fps and did a 5 frame burst. Later i combined them in photomix HDR, sharpened and NR in Noise Ninja and Voila. Hope this helps.

These are incredible images. What a treat. A very nice documentary. I was looking at your shots and wondered if you had used an HDR trechnique...evident in some of them. It's nice to see that you didn't over do it...most people are familiar with the artsy side of HDR. I agree that you could do a book on Istanbul. And, by the way, I didn't think you posted too many images.

What ISO's were you using for the HDR'd images? Did you ever use flash? Was flash even allowed in the mosques?

Thanks for sharing.

[RuiMLopes]

Really great stuff! Your Istanbul images are among the best I ever seen from there, so far.
I can see that you visited a big part of the places I sugested some weeks ago. I hope that my information has been useful!

[Jacobovs]

Originally Posted by Ed911

These are incredible images. What a treat. A very nice documentary. I was looking at your shots and wondered if you had used an HDR trechnique...evident in some of them. It's nice to see that you didn't over do it...most people are familiar with the artsy side of HDR. I agree that you could do a book on Istanbul. And, by the way, I didn't think you posted too many images.

What ISO's were you using for the HDR'd images? Did you ever use flash? Was flash even allowed in the mosques?

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, I used iso 200 with no flash. People used flashes in the mosques but i did not think it was necessary.

[choudhrysaab]

SUPERB pictures - loved every single shot.
def. one of the places on my "to visit" list

thank you for sharing.

[Jacobovs]

Originally Posted by RuiMLopes

Really great stuff! Your Istanbul images are among the best I ever seen from there, so far.
I can see that you visited a big part of the places I sugested some weeks ago. I hope that my information has been useful!

Thanks for all of the tips!!! I used them as a guide for my trip. Your tips saved me a lot of time.

[dlplumer]

Fabulous shots. Might I suggest you straighten some of your verticals. A few of them are quite slanted.

[Jacobovs]

Originally Posted by dlplumer

Fabulous shots. Might I suggest you straighten some of your verticals. A few of them are quite slanted.

Thanks, I appreciate the CC.

[Jacobovs]

Originally Posted by RuiMLopes

Really great stuff! Your Istanbul images are among the best I ever seen from there, so far.
I can see that you visited a big part of the places I sugested some weeks ago. I hope that my information has been useful!

I did go to the places you mentioned. your ideas were very helpful.

[justin24]

I need to visit turkey now after seeing those!

[Jacobovs]

Originally Posted by justin24

I need to visit turkey now after seeing those!

And I need to go back. There was so much more, and I did not even get to the Asia side of Istanbul.