Riksdagshuset - The House of Parliament

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[mblomq]

The Parliament House is the seat of the Parliament of Sweden. This beautiful building is located on Helgeandsholmen in Stockholm.

It's not as heavily tone mapped as my previous posts. I tend to be a bit aggressive on the tone mapping, but that's what I like about HDR, creating surrealistic images. I find this image a bit dreamy. The image consists of both layers of a tone mapped HDR and the original photo.

[mblomq]

I made one version with more intense colors. Which version is best?

[honez]

To be honest, I prefer the first, but with a touch more contrast (rather than saturation) applied after the tonemapping. The more intense one goes someway to achieving the same result, but with saturation not contrast, so it looks a little too "pushed" in my eyes.
There's a bit of a lean to the left too, so I think it needs a bit of a straighten up, and the verticals could benefit from perspective correction IMHO.
Looks like there's some good architecture around those parts. Thanks for uploading, I'm quite enjoying your subjects.

[mblomq]

Thank you for your comments honez. Here is a straighten version with less saturation and more contrast.

[honez]

Ah that looks more like it. To be ultra nit-picky I'd be tempted to give it about 1 degree or less of a clockwise turn, but that's just me. (I'd take the top of the grey wall at the bottom of the building with the black windows as the reference point as I think it's that that seems to be throwing my eye off).
 The contrast seems to work much better for the calibration on my monitor (spyder 3 on an iMac) and I think it's right on the money now. Nice job.

[jessea]

I tend to prefer the second version,because of the colors(laptop,non-calibrated)and the third one for the perspective.Very pleasant!