HDR Photography - How to?

[baz7175]

I actually did a few from our current stay on the islands a few days ago but decided not to fire them up on PH as the normal HDR madness would probably have ensued, so seems like a good time to add them also

[M-J-B]

D4VE 3LL said:

M-J-B said:

Looks like a computer-generated image! brilliant processing. Swear I've seen it somewhere before :/

The car is based in Florida and I took the shot last Christmas - if you frequent flickr I do post in various groups on there?

I did also process this one a bit in PS as well as photomatix

Edited by M-J-B on Wednesday 12th August 21:06

[RobDickinson]

1st photomatix effort from my deck:



One from Noosa:


One from Tekapo:


HDR can work realy well , like anything it can be missused.

[jon-]

RobDickinson said:

1st photomatix effort from my deck:

I love those clouds!

[plg101]

Aside from the ones mentioned already:


http://dannorcott.co.uk/tag/hdr-tutorial/

http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/photography...


The best free overview that I have found:
http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_1.htm

[...Mole...]

M-J-B said:

D4VE 3LL said:

M-J-B said:

Looks like a computer-generated image! brilliant processing. Swear I've seen it somewhere before :/

The car is based in Florida and I took the shot last Christmas - if you frequent flickr I do post in various groups on there?

I did also process this one a bit in PS as well as photomatix

Edited by M-J-B on Wednesday 12th August 21:06

Those wheels look familiar, arent they off of some mobile artic lab of years gone by?

[M-J-B]

...Mole... said:

M-J-B said:

D4VE 3LL said:

M-J-B said:

Looks like a computer-generated image! brilliant processing. Swear I've seen it somewhere before :/

The car is based in Florida and I took the shot last Christmas - if you frequent flickr I do post in various groups on there?

I did also process this one a bit in PS as well as photomatix

Edited by M-J-B on Wednesday 12th August 21:06

Those wheels look familiar, arent they off of some mobile artic lab of years gone by?

Could well be but all I know is the wheels were huge!

[Pvapour]

Woza said:

Whitefly Swatter said:

Pvapour said:

Just got a book on HDR which is quite enlightening, not got far in it yet though, did this one last night which is pretty poor compared to the above images, but I will persist

Spill the beans on the book title and author please

would it be the book written by the author of the vanilladays website?

Woza.

High Dynamic Range
digital photography

by. Ferrell McCollough

Interesting comparisons 1/2 way through the book between different HDR software, CS3 does not fair well IMO, Photomatrix is fast, good at realism and the cartoon look, FDR seems to lead on the realism front but lacks at the cartoon effect plus it processes a little slow. Interesting book for people starting I think as it gives the history & mechanics of HDR before software experiments & then onto 'how to'

[Pvapour]

found an epic building that I thought an appropriate subject to have another go at HDR, still only in PS3 though, cant get the hang of matrix

not bothered with wire removal as it was more to do with HDR

[spydersingh]

I quite like this website for travel based HDR

www.stuckincustoms.com

[Simply Mono]

These 2 are quite good :-

http://www.pixalo.com/community/tutorials-guides/b...

http://www.pixalo.com/community/tutorials-guides/h...


Anyway I'm a big fan of HDR's where they still look natural. This was my attempt , with 5 exposures @ 1 stop apart, shot handheld with 1D MKII on full blast

[Simpo Two]

Simply Mono said:

Anyway I'm a big fan of HDR's where they still look natural. This was my attempt , with 5 exposures @ 1 stop apart, shot handheld with 1D MKII on full blast

I like that; it's not unlike what I do for high contrast scenes. But did you need five shots?

[L4MBOLUV3R]

Before



After

[V8LM]

HDR really does do skies very well. Took these today - I know they could be a lot better (get rid of the people, the silver DB7 behind, etc - but I like them. Done with Photomax: