keep trying man...you'll get it check out the photography forum...you wil def. learn alot

 

oh yeah, I will. Believe me. I've got plans to shoot a whole slew of cars later this weeks, so I'm gonna give it another shot then. In the meantime, I'll just keep practicing. Unfortunately, I don't have CS2, just CS so for the HDR I have to use Photomatix, which is still a nice program, but I'm so used to CS and it's functions.

 

this doesn't look like HDR.

looks like brush stroke or artistic filters were used...



anyways, Johnny

i noticed that you used dodge and burn tool, and it's bit distracting.

 

nope, none of that was used. That's what the outcome was from Photomatix with just the HDR merge and tone mapping. No photoshop except for resizing.