HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography - post your HDR

[termina3]

Yeh, admittedly the image itself isn't particularly great, it was a bit of a throwaway snap which seemed to transfer well to the world of HDR.

I can appreciate that people get wound up with HDR images however there's just something about them, when done well, which I just love.

Thanks for your honesty!

I'm glad you took it well

I entered into a photo contest a few years ago, and got third (not first) b/c one judge of three found a fence in the foreground annoying... although he admitted himself there was nothing to be done about it. I don't want to complain, merely highlight the occasional impossibilities...

 

[zephyrnoid]

I've done that many times. My fav is a carousel shot with nasty backlighting. My masking was awful ( notice the edges??)

 

[timtam]

My First Attempt of HDR

Stair

 

[Grimace]

Annenberg Hall/Sanders Theater in Cambridge, MA.

 

[bguillemette6]

Simply amazing and excellent work guys!!

Thanks for this thread and these shots, you made my morning viewing a pleasure, always nice to stop by Rumors for some amazing photography / E-Art !!

 

[zephyrnoid]

I'm a cloud junkie and I REALLY DIG them clouds Ansel!

5 quick handheld shots off a fence post.

 

[Doylem]

I love clouds too... but these are just too much. Too zappy. They make my eyes hurt. Honest...

 

[iBallz]

I know, that was just a weird one! The clouds were neat that day, but that pic was a bit bright.

I must of deleted the originals. I want to get back out there again, but closer to the lake, the clouds were like that again today.

 

[timtam]

My Second try of HDR.

 

[onomatopoeia]

My Second try of HDR.

[Come on, it's right there in the post above this one...]

I rather like the pale yellow sky but I'd say back off on the light smoothing to give the building a slightly more realistic look.

 

[fett]

 

[davethewave]

these are my experiments



Bye DaVe

 

[stagi]

5 quick handheld shots off a fence post.

Love this shot, did you combine all of these images in PS or use any other plug ins to get this.

 

[Mark Morb]

Visited a local Stately Home today, the light was very dull and overcast so used a touch of HDR to breathe some life into a couple of them:

 

[iBallz]

Love this shot, did you combine all of these images in PS or use any other plug ins to get this.

No, I dont use PS, just Photomatix Pro. Thanks

 

[zephyrnoid]

Can you folks help me understand.
I'm old school photoshop expert and never felt the need to upgrade from 6.0 ( yea I know- Ancient).
I combine the two or three images in PS the hard way to get the dynamic range where I want it from a hugely contrasty scene.
Could you please coach me as to how you are doing it or of there's a filter or Plug in that does the mixing. Thanks!

 

[Grimace]

Can you folks help me understand.
I'm old school photoshop expert and never felt the need to upgrade from 6.0 ( yea I know- Ancient).
I combine the two or three images in PS the hard way to get the dynamic range where I want it from a hugely contrasty scene.
Could you please coach me as to how you are doing it or of there's a filter or Plug in that does the mixing. Thanks!

Many of us are using a program called Photomatix and not Photoshop. PS CS3 (and I think CS2) handles HDR images quite easily.

 

[onomatopoeia]

 

[rhomsy]

Here is my HDR taken with my brand new Canon 40D! I love this camera:

 

[coastertux]

My first attempt at HDR:

For some other first attempts: http://stevenowensphotography.com/p392247580/

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

My first attempt at HDR:

For some other first attempts: http://stevenowensphotography.com/p392247580/

The colors of this one remind me of the old rainbow apple logo

 

[zephyrnoid]

OK Photomatix Pro or PS CS. But do you have to simply load the images into one file and run a filter or is it a layer blending function ???

 

[valdore]

OK Photomatix Pro or PS CS. But do you have to simply load the images into one file and run a filter or is it a layer blending function ???

Load your source images into Photomatix (or Photoshop but Photomatix is better) and it generates a new combined file for you.

 

[zephyrnoid]

OK
Did my first try. WOW! That was easy! Have a look at the two side by side. My old-school hand composite in PS and the Photomatix version. I'll want to get some more time on Photomatix- to get better at the settings. I sure like the SPEED Thanks! This is going to be useful in the future

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

How do you guys get such dynamic images without any graininess. When I use Photomatix (I'm still very new to it) and I save the image I create it gets a lot of grain, whether it's from one RAW or three different pictures.