Here is my first day out with my new for me Digital Rebel:
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...ni/hdrtest.jpg
Im proud of it :)
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Here is my first day out with my new for me Digital Rebel:
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l7...ni/hdrtest.jpg
Im proud of it :)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/d.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/c.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/a.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/b.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/e.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/f.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/h.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/i.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2..._MOD/HDR/g.jpg
Which method do you guys use in Photomatix Pro?
1. Details Enhancer
2. Tone Compressor
I use photomatix pro.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soulburner
Right but...that wasn't the question?
Here is my first try at HDR.
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...G_1776_HDR.jpg
Originals:
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...g/IMG_1775.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...g/IMG_1774.jpg
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...g/IMG_1776.jpg
Really makes you look at things differently. Normal pictures look so bland now.
How do you like this one? You can call it "Mordor". :)
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3...editrszbk1.jpg
@ Soul Burner,
Sorry missed the second part :p I use the " Tone" adjustments.
Unrealer me needs your HDR pics in high res pls :D
Pekram
I should add that I edited mine to still look realistic. I'll have some more later with that "unreal" look.
come on guys, just cause you can doesn't mean youshould. Some pics are not worth saving.
Dr.LED thats a great shot
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Originally Posted by perkam
all pics?
Nice job Unrealer, but imho last pictures are just overexposed and do not provide what the HDR is really about. Try to increase the exposure of dark images and do not include te very bright ones. :)
Green makes me dizzle -_____-
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1154/...8029ad37_o.jpg
That water is b!tchin'... :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by r3g
Fantastic pic!
Raptor
http://i21.tinypic.com/wt8wf7.jpg
Power Shot S3
Exposure times were 1/60, 1/200 and 1/320 I believe
Aperture was set to 5.0 iirc.
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Originally Posted by Unrealer
http://images6.theimagehosting.com/weed1.th.gif :p:
^^Quote:
Originally Posted by DeadlyFire
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/3...0421678pr4.jpg
Another one from class:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...4858_59_60.jpg
IMHO.... the monitors ruin the pic.... :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Unrealer
Some great results there i know its a pain but can you include some of your adjustments or techniques pleease, so we can learn lol.:)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...l_MOD/HDR2.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...l_MOD/HDR1.jpg
@ rra
Search HDR tutorials @ devianart :P
Wow, all of these pics are really nice...
Too bad my stupid POS of a camera can't take pics for s***. :(
(Kodak Easyshare C643... pos)
Unrealer, you have some good pics but I don't see anything that looks like HDR in those last two. All I see are two pics of the same place taken at two different times (hence the clouds, the sun and the color).
my first attempt to hdr, in photomatix, trial...
lol..
i had to downsample the rig picture a bit...Quote:
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Wow, excellent pics guys, I have a POS camera (doesn't even have a macro mode!) and no tripod, so all I can do is look.
Lucky bastard.... :shakes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate P.
I dont even have a camera... :rofl:
love this one! i really like the blue hdr picsQuote:
Originally Posted by shocktech
nice work!:)
Ok, the guy with the iPhone - those aren't HDR pics :)
Yea this thread is pissing me off. HDR is to make good pictures great. Not to make your snapshot into a work of art. If it doesn't impress you when you look at it on your camera, chances are you should move on and try again. This is why I said earlier that HDR is often considered gimicky among serious photographers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soulburner
HDR lets you capture an image with proper exposure, something a camera is very limited in doing. You can only expose for the entire scene - but what if you could combine different areas of the picture at different exposures to come up with a near perfect image? That is what HDR is all about. It can come much closer to reproducing what we see with our eyes.
It is up to you what you want the end result to look like. If you are using Photomatix, you can go for a realistic look, or a fantasy world look. It is totally up to you, and both types of pictures have their place in an HDR discussion.
Testing out HDR using the new Rebel XTI I got for my birthday:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2001/...bef55df185.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/...0bf402af76.jpg
You don't happen to have the first pic in large do you Metric? :)
Same question from same town of the world lol.
I like both very much, it would be great if you could provide them in a high resolution :)
LOL Arne, how funny is that? :D Where abouts do you live? :)
Indeed I do: http://images.filecloud.com/672213/I...tonemapped.jpg (6MB, 10.1MP)Quote:
Originally Posted by KingDingeling
Whoa, got some dust/smudges there bro! Nice shot though! :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Metric
Imho, snow covered scenes aren't the best for HDR..
If it's that glowing white spot in the middle, it's actually a snow flake that suck to my lens and didn't melt since it was around 23F outside in the morning. edit: I see the other random dark, dust spots around the top, I think it's something the HDR process pulled up (could be snow), since it doesn't show up on my other shots, hmmm...Quote:
Originally Posted by DShankar
nice..Quote:
Originally Posted by Unrealer
:up: :) :D :slobber:
Ok here are a couple of mine...
Tomb18 love the pier, wish for more fog on the same shot.
Metric, your skills are getting better :)
Try good-tutorials.com for some photoshop tips.
Thanks :). The weather has been somewhat boring the past few weeks (overcast and rain). Hopefully I'll be able to get a few nicer shots in the next few weeks as the weather seems to be getting better.Quote:
Originally Posted by libertysyclone
Metric, the photo of your school is awesome. It looks really cool. Almost looks CG.
So how do you make a HDR photo again?
First you need a camera that can shot at different exposure levels and can shoot (preferably) in a RAW format. Then you use either Photoshop or a HDR tonemapping program such as Photomatix to combine the different exposed images into one HDR image. Google can be pretty helpful, you can find tons of tutorials on HDR photography.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate P.
Nate, here's one I found through Google: http://www.instructables.com/id/HDR-...with-the-GIMP/
Thanks MaxxxRacer, I was quite pleased how it came out as well.
Any way to do HDR with GIMP?
HDR doesn't always need bright colors. It still looks good, even in black and white :)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/...a12f4322_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/...d229f85c_b.jpg
hieuhef, that one has a lot of potential. Is there a way to tweak it so it comes out brighter? It's really dark.
depending on your monitor settings, it can change rapidly. in print, it looks fantastic and on a calibrated monitor, it looks superb. i can lighten one for the boards :D
Some of these pictures are just wasted on the 200k limit here. hieuhef, do you have a really high res version of that? I"d love a new background ;).
haven't gotten around to lightening it yet, but here's hi-res:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/...ff5e7401_o.jpg
is 3800x2600 hi-res enough? :P
Nope, not enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by hieuhef
I agree, and just to confirm... Im not kidding.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashraf
Quote:
Originally Posted by hieuhef
I need 40 more horizontal pixels ;).
Thanks for the pic.
I am using a calibrated monitor. In fact, one that has the ability to show ridiculous brightness, and its still the darkest picture in the thread? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by hieuhef
then i fail :confused: i'm in the process for making a lighter one, it'll be up soon, if anyone cares.. also, is it me or do a lot of these photos seem like they're merely one picture emulated to look like they're hdr shots? :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Soulburner
as for hi-res, how's 18kx3k? [different, random shot, just for conversations sake :D ]
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/...97e72a40_o.jpg
i like "natural" looking hdrs ;)
http://www.abload.de/img/brunnen_kleinvoc.jpg
its a good photo for a natural take! no add ups at all! the sun gave impact to the leaves! the colors are bright and rich! nice photo!
Looks great! What camera?
Fuji FinePix S6500fd.
Shot in RAW, edited with Photomatix and Lightzone.
http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/12/21/28/48/20080412.jpg
A very modest attempt to HDR, I was shooting this outside of my window at 7am. Since it's my first trial, I wanted to get some feedback for when I do more serious shooting.
ps: don't even mention the ugly buildings, I know! I just woke up, saw the sky and snapped some pics with my new camera. I was trying to do any
Hmm...
i don't care about the appearance of the buildings, but they look quite out of focus. and above them, it could be more colourful...
beware!! this is my pov! no aggresions at all ;)
back top topic, shot from my own terrace and ugly buildings too :(
http://www.abload.de/img/dscf1939_7_89yk.jpg
And a Foto shot when i was bored:
http://www.abload.de/img/dscf1998xhr.jpg
The building weren't out of focus in the initial picture. I really took the camera shoot and tried several exposure (without thinking of doing HDR with the picture after). so it was shot by hand with me looking at the LCD of the camera between each shots...
Photoshop is quite impressive as it was able to align them quite well and it was effortless from me.
On my screen the picture looked more contrasted in terms of colors (i'm on the pc at work with a not so good screen and no calibration). If I push the settings more, I have odd artifacts that start to appear. Do you know why?
I like your pictures btw, the first one would look better, imo, if you straighten it and crop it a little (to make the fence disappear for example)
Ced, #2 is a great HDR example. They are supposed to be subtlety done
#1 has intense colors. :shocked:
Heres my 1st that came out decent. The sky is underexposed. Typical California weather, not a cloud in the sky.
It was taken with a D40 RAW image.
Attachment 76719
Two more from the Oregon Coast. Single tonemapped images still count...right?
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/...e23e7b6a_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/...3afb45d5_o.jpg
I'm assuming that's one tone mapped RAW image right, not JPG?
Nice bike there. Looks a little underexposed in the upper-right, but other than that, looks great.
Nate: Yes, tonemapped with a single RAW file.
I just have to step in to say I love these pictures. Didn't know you could make such vivid and detailed pictures with such unique atmosphere with HDR, really nice. Keep posting guys! :up:
Here's one I'm proud of.
Its not bad considering the original.
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Are you using a tripod, 2long4u? Does your camera have exposure bracketing?
Nice shots Nate, the second one looks good. I don't think the D40x has bracketing (at least my friends who own one say they don't...)
Another lighthouse shot:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2107/...92b46dd9_o.jpg
Thanks Metric, and nicely done! I should try shooting in RAW and tone mapping it... do you use Photomatix or a different program for the tone mapping?
I don't know what bracketing is. I don't have a tripod yet. I even tried setting the camera on the table so it didn't move and the HDR came out like crap. The only luck so far is with one pic taken in raw format and changing the exposure.
Bracketing is a setting in the camera. When set, the camera takes a normal exposure, an over exposed, and an under exposed image in a row. If you have the camera set to continuous (burst) mode, you can take three pictures in quick succession, and it then is very easy to make an HDR image, even if you don't have a tripod. I hear the D40 does not have bracketing, so I guess you didn't use bracketing.Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] 2long4u
More from today... using bracketing, no tripod. All were taking in JPG format, no post-processing done except run through Photomatix.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...n029_30_31.jpg
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...n039_40_41.jpg
Apocalypse Over Suburbia
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...08And2more.jpg
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...ps/003_4_5.jpg
(Back to using Photomatix, that other program does not that good of a job and is harder to use)
Am I getting better?
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You need a circular polarizing filter 2long4u, it will remove the horrid glare.
some shots i did over the weekend:
http://cold-fussion.deviantart.com/a...ields-83937211
http://cold-fussion.deviantart.com/a...-Life-83946064
Down at Oregon State University today, seemed like a good chance for a HDR opportunity:
Waldo Hall
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2247/...f13112cb_b.jpg
Not nearly as impressive as some of these but here it goes
Power Shot S3, each one taken at -2, 0 and +2 exposure . Combined using Photomatix (as you can see)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...G_3606_7_8.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...G_3596_7_8.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...3609_10_11.jpg
Bucharest, a couple of hours ago:
Canon 20D + Tokina 12-24 F/4 @ 12mm.
Enjoy !
Magic Mushrooms! :up: :D :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by pasatoiutd
The Japanese Garden in Toulouse, France.
Great colors. Guessing post-processed with the Orton effect?...Quote:
Originally Posted by pasatoiutd