HDR Pictures

[MaxxxRacer]

Metric, the photo of your school is awesome. It looks really cool. Almost looks CG.

[Nate P.]

So how do you make a HDR photo again?

[Metric]

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.

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.

[Nate P.]

Any way to do HDR with GIMP?

[Metric]

HDR doesn't always need bright colors. It still looks good, even in black and white

[hieuhef]

[Soulburner]

hieuhef, that one has a lot of potential. Is there a way to tweak it so it comes out brighter? It's really dark.

[hieuhef]

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

[cirthix]

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 .

[hieuhef]

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

[Ashraf]

is 3800x2600 hi-res enough? :P

Nope, not enough.

[ZOMGVTEK]

Nope, not enough.

I agree, and just to confirm... Im not kidding.

[cirthix]

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

I need 40 more horizontal pixels .

Thanks for the pic.

[Soulburner]

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

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?

[hieuhef]

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?

then i fail 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?

as for hi-res, how's 18kx3k? [different, random shot, just for conversations sake ]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/...97e72a40_o.jpg

[Tante Erna]

i like "natural" looking hdrs

[tuned2_bfast]

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!

[Nate P.]

Looks great! What camera?

[Tante Erna]

Fuji FinePix S6500fd.
Shot in RAW, edited with Photomatix and Lightzone.

[antipop]

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

[Tante Erna]

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




And a Foto shot when i was bored:

[antipop]

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-G60]

My small contribution

[Magnj]

Ced, #2 is a great HDR example. They are supposed to be subtlety done

[[XC] 2long4u]

#1 has intense colors.