A few more HDR's...

[aphex]

Ponte Vecchio 1
Ponte Vecchio
Florence
Venice 1
Venice
Matterhorn

 

[corkyg]

Nice pics - but, what are HDRs? Just curious.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Nice pics - but, what are HDRs? Just curious.

thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

 

[ElFenix]

those look pretty natural, i like 'em a lot. what method did you use?

 

[Kaspian]

I like how you didnt go overboard with the hdr settings.
Nice work:thumbsup:

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

These are really good. Love the liveliness and the vibrancy. And of course, the "not-going-overboard"...uh, -ness.

 

[Aharami]

natural looking HDR ftw!
I gotta start shooting in RAW mode with my hacked S3IS. I ALWAYS end up having alignment issues with multiple shots combined into HDR

 

[GTaudiophile]

What software are you using for this again? Are you using a tripod or not?

As far as I understand, one is suppose to use AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) and take three identical photos at three different exposures (under, normal, and over) and then the HDR software "merges" the three. Am I right?

I fooled around with it recently and found that without a tripod it was quite difficult to take three identical photos. I used Photomatix.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Looks like a lot of people have alignment issues. Hopefully this week I can get around to posting a tutorial on how to align pictures in software before doing HDR.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
What software are you using for this again? Are you using a tripod or not?

As far as I understand, one is suppose to use AEB (Auto Exposure Bracketing) and take three identical photos at three different exposures (under, normal, and over) and then the HDR software "merges" the three. Am I right?

I fooled around with it recently and found that without a tripod it was quite difficult to take three identical photos. I used Photomatix.

you can do it with raw. just do exposure compensation in the raw converter.

this was done with 1 jpeg

aphex's look like they're from a single photo, as the water looks great. so i'm wonder if he exposed for the shadows and then brought the highlight data out in the converter (raw encodes a lot more highlight data than shadow data, so i assume that is how you would do it)

 

[aphex]

thanks everyone!! I've tried both multiple images and single raw's to create HDR's, 19/20 the single raw works better for me... You get better dynamic range with multiple images, but even small things like shutter slap make ever so small differences between the images that hurt the sharpness for me (even on a tripod).

All are first dumped into Photomatix and Tone Mapped. Then loaded in CS3 for adjustments (levels, white balance, saturation, contrast, USM, etc)

 

[AmpedSilence]

first time that i have seen HDR images that didn't look fake. well done!

 

[aphex]

just finished this one from Switzerland.... I think these should come out nicely

http://www.iiki.org/pics/Matterhorn1HDRsm.jpg

 

[GTaudiophile]

So you are using Photomatix. Did you pay for it?

 

[GTaudiophile]

I have a lot of RAW files I can go screw with...

 

[GTaudiophile]

Got home, found a good candidate RAW image, and created three JPEGS of varying exposure levels.

I then fed these into Photomatix, let it generate an image, and it looked like ass. I then went into tone mapping and couldn't do much better with it.

Seems like the trick is in the tone mapping part. Photomatix seems to add a lot of noise to the images I noticed.

 

[aphex]

Well its adding noise to the dark parts cause its trying to pull whatever info is there and make it viewable... Nothing a little noiseware can't fix though

 

[aphex]

Got rid of the blue tinge on the snow... http://www.iiki.org/pics/Matterhorn2HDRsm.jpg

 

[GTaudiophile]

What kind of pic makes a good candidate for HDR? Any?

 

[Jawo]

I've been to many of the same locations in Italy and the colors seem a little over saturated, but maybe you were trying to pop the colors in the HDR. Thats one thing I want to try but havent had the time for.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
What kind of pic makes a good candidate for HDR? Any?

Yea, its kinda random the ones that end up looking good (to me at least)

I try and stay from ones with major extremes (dark street, bright sky)

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
Looks like a lot of people have alignment issues. Hopefully this week I can get around to posting a tutorial on how to align pictures in software before doing HDR.

i use this program to align the pics prior to creating the HDR file
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58368129@N00/210213524/

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: aphex
What kind of pic makes a good candidate for HDR? Any?

According to the definition and description provided above, HDR the pictures really have to be of something that does not move, - it is a post shot process that layers two nearly identical images together. I see it as an art form based on photography. Alignment would be critical.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: corkyg

Originally posted by: aphex
What kind of pic makes a good candidate for HDR? Any?

According to the definition and description provided above, HDR the pictures really have to be of something that does not move, - it is a post shot process that layers two nearly identical images together. I see it as an art form based on photography. Alignment would be critical.

Weird, how did that quote end up coming from me?

 

[corkyg]

OK, I may have said it wrong, but the Wipideia article you linked indicates that HDR is achieved through rendering of more than one exposure. At least that's the way I read it.

My sense is still that this is an art form - and has to be achieved through post processing.