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HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography - post your HDR
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I'm sorry for being confusing. The image you posted is just a white box that says content protected by owner.
My post #970 shows the image. is it still not working for you? Sorry for all this back and forth. It's showing on my computer
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My post #970 shows the image. is it still not working for you? Sorry for all this back and forth. It's showing on my computer
That's because you have permission to view images from your host, but the rest of us don't. You have to reset the permissions on your end, or all we'll see is a placeholder.
Definitely a halo where sky meets hill on the one on the right (lake in foreground pic.) Looks like you pushed some sliders a bit too far, but not bad.
While I also am experimenting with HDR/tone-mapping/exposure blending, or whatever else you can call it... I find it a bit hard to really critique them, because I don't know for sure what the photographer is aiming at, effect-wise, so I'm unable to know whether or not he succeeded. Some are definitely more pleasing to the eye than others, but that's all subjective, ain't it? Anyway, carry on. It's always good to see people striving to learn new techniques of creative expression. Once in awhile, someone really hits one out of the ballpark...
Agreed with the Halo "effect" A few minutes in PS could probably take care of all that.
I'm right there with you on the experimenting with tone mapping, with these two particular images I uploaded I was really displeased with how flat and boring the images were. Combining three exposures together and tone mapping really solved that problem. Did I capture what I saw? No... I captured what I wanted to see, I suppose that may defeat the purpose of photography as a reproduction of reality but it certainly by my definition still allows it to be art.
I attached the originals to make my point!
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Agreed with the Halo "effect" A few minutes in PS could probably take care of all that.
I'm right there with you on the experimenting with tone mapping, with these two particular images I uploaded I was really displeased with how flat and boring the images were. Combining three exposures together and tone mapping really solved that problem. Did I capture what I saw? No... I captured what I wanted to see, I suppose that may defeat the purpose of photography as a reproduction of reality but it certainly by my definition still allows it to be art.
I attached the originals to make my point!
From the originals it looks like a mid-day sun, bright and generally not the kind of light for dramatic landscapes, or photography in general...
In cases like this, definitely pushing the contrast while keeping the whites and blacks from clipping is going to add the drama to make them look much better. Ansel Adams (probably the original 'tone-mapper,') shot a lot of his famous pictures in the middle of the day, using red filters and both development techniques and printing techniques to extend the dynamic range of his black and white prints.I tend to experiment with HDR methods with high contrast shots that just don't really work well normally, especially with digital cameras, because the shadows are just too dark, and the highlights are blown. And example for me would be a shot in the redwood forest with late afternoon sun streaming down through the canopy in a back-lit shot, like in a cathedral. In person this is a fantastic scene, but a straight-non HDR shot from a digital camera really is limiting. For me, the perfect HDR image would look much closer to what my eyes saw live and in person... both on a display monitor and printed. That's the goal for me, and it's not easy. One of the things I like about experimenting with it is that it makes me slow down, and plan a little more while shooting - the tripod effect.
I guess I'm going to have to buy my Photomatix license so I can get rid of those pesky watermarks...
Here are the first couple of images I tried Photomatix on, both were from three exposures 2-stops apart, -2, 0, +2. Anything moving, like water or leaves presents it's own problems...
Yaquina Bay fishing boats, Newport, OR
Up in the woods...
Amatuer Photographer trying his hand at HDR
This is from a bracketed, hand held shot. I used PS CS3 to merge my HDR.... I wish i knew how to better control the tones. The middle area looks too bright for me. What do you guys think?
This is from a bracketed, hand held shot. I used PS CS3 to merge my HDR.... I wish i knew how to better control the tones. The middle area looks too bright for me. What do you guys think?
ummm it's a picture of a parking lot. Not much more to say. HDR isn't magic. If you take a bad picture it stays a bad picture.
That's constructive.... thanks!
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Thanks for the positive comments. Everyone should visit the slot canyons in Northern Arizona / Southern Utah sometime in their lives. These canyons are very photogenic, but photos don't do them full justice - you need to hike through them first-hand.
these pictures are all amazing!! i am very interested at getting into this sort of stuff. i have experimented with them but my camera nor knowledge of making these pictures is quite limited (got an 8MP Panasonic something a-rather, somewhat like the very bottom camera in this link).
any tips for a beginner? can i even take some nice HDR images with my current camera??
any tips for a beginner? can i even take some nice HDR images with my current camera??
I wish you guys would just make up your minds on this... it really gets repetitive to have to go through the same thing every month or so with a different mod... hell, we even had a complete thread on this issue last year where supposedly it got settled... timg tags on quoted images in replies, not necessary on original posts.
Please define "large images."
Sincerely...
1) Start off with a scene that is already interesting, HDR wont make an uninteresting image good.
2) Effects are most pronounced in scenes with high variations from highlights to shadows. (for example scenes where you would normally take the picture, and get blown out highlights)
3) Don't overdo it (you'll know when you get glowing around objects).
4) For the point and shoot, set it up on a tripod, use the lowest ISO, and use exposure compensation to take a dark, neutral and highly exposed image of the same scene. Combine them with photomatix.