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Smokey · « **Reply #40 on:** April 04, 2008, 02:28:08 PM »

Quote from: Eiii on April 04, 2008, 07:39:45 AM

Guys. These sunsets are crap. You can see none of the foreground. HDR is the answer. At least take multiple exposures and hand it off to someone else. It has the potential to look really, REALLY awesome. D:

i dont have a tripod, nor a string and washer. =\

Garrett · « **Reply #41 on:** April 04, 2008, 02:35:57 PM »

These HDR photos are sweet. I will do this for someone sends me your photos. I read the tutorial and understand it after I actually went through the tutorial in the Photo Shop CS tutorials. It wasn't too hard.

Eiii · « **Reply #42 on:** April 04, 2008, 02:49:05 PM »

Flat surace?

coLa · « **Reply #43 on:** April 04, 2008, 05:38:03 PM »

Quote from: Justinph5 on April 04, 2008, 09:06:22 AM

cola, use RAW, you'll LOVE it! lol

I'll have to upload some pictures on here soon, once i get to them.

never said i didn't like it. i just haven't installed the software that'll let me extract it. been too busy and a bit lazy.

i agree with Eiii on the sunset shots. it's nothing if you can't see the foreground. never shoot into the light. always have it behind you. unless you are going for that effect, of course.

Smokey · « **Reply #44 on:** April 04, 2008, 07:09:57 PM »

Quote from: Eiii on April 04, 2008, 02:49:05 PM

Flat surace?

maybe if you could see the foreground you'd see that its just a field. nothing flat to be found. =]

Eiii · « **Reply #45 on:** April 04, 2008, 07:50:58 PM »

You could bring a table or something.

Re · « **Reply #46 on:** April 05, 2008, 12:55:12 AM »

Well I had never heard of HDR before this thread, so I started playing with some of my photos after reading about it. Let me know what ya'll think of these. They are first attempts obviously but i am planning on getting more experience with it in the future

Eiii · « **Reply #47 on:** April 05, 2008, 01:08:35 AM »

Could use tweaking/color-correction/higher-quality images, but very nice! Especially the second.

y00tz · « **Reply #48 on:** April 05, 2008, 01:43:23 AM »

Re: can you post the reference pictures? What program are you attempting HDR with? Either the reference pictures were grainy, or you didn't do something quite right

KnacK · « **Reply #49 on:** April 05, 2008, 07:46:43 AM »

reminds me of looking at a 3d photo without the mandatory red/blue glasses.

Garrett · « **Reply #50 on:** April 05, 2008, 08:41:50 AM »

You can do HDR pictures in PhotoShop CS2

Re · « **Reply #51 on:** April 05, 2008, 10:10:16 AM »

The reference pictures were grainy. When I was there, I had an older camera which wasn't that good.

I was using Photomatix but am not real impressed with the occasional memory faults and such so I am experimenting with other things.

* Re hands out the red/blue glasses at the door

coLa · « **Reply #52 on:** April 05, 2008, 03:21:35 PM »

second pic looks really good. the other 2 have a it too much saturation. not bad for a first try. HDR looks grainy either way. i was supposed to go to the track again tonight but i don't think that's going to happen. i gotta get out and shoot some excrement.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #53 on:** April 05, 2008, 03:54:29 PM »

I got Artizen to mess with some HDR and it seems pretty good.

Overall though, although I can get some of my photos looking a bit better, i'm not all that impressed with HDR so far. Not beyond what I found I can accomplish with tweaking Highlight/Shadows in PS.
And if I really wanted to get fancy I can always do a chop on sections of my images and tweak the individual layers to even things out, or make areas stand out dramatically. But that takes a lot of time.

I'll try doing some exposure bracketing then HDR those and see what I come up with.

I don't want to create anything unrealistic looking. At least not at this early stage in my photography. And that's pretty much all I can get out of this "fake" HDR, using one image and creating variations by tweaking exposure in software.

Re · « **Reply #54 on:** April 05, 2008, 05:37:01 PM »

I ended up having to crop a few things out of this one so I gave it a border. I think I may have my saturation a little better on this one.

coLa · « **Reply #55 on:** April 06, 2008, 10:52:52 AM »

looks a bit blurry, unless that's just my eyes. should have just cropped it instead of adding that outrageous border.

coLa · « **Reply #56 on:** April 06, 2008, 10:57:33 AM »

here is one of my car. i used shadow/highlight on photoshop and gave it the "HDR" look.

Smokey · « **Reply #57 on:** April 06, 2008, 07:55:45 PM »

Quote from: coLa on April 06, 2008, 10:57:33 AM

here is one of my car. i used shadow/highlight on photoshop and gave it the "HDR" look.

True HDR is not even comparable to that "look".

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2176897085&size=large
Now THATS HDR.

ohsnapedit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heiwa4126/2111167098/

Garrett · « **Reply #58 on:** April 06, 2008, 08:36:03 PM »

That golden gate bridge photo is sick.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #59 on:** April 06, 2008, 08:54:56 PM »

I don't much care for the extreme effects of HDR. Slight enhancements look great though.

I hit some highlights/shadows effect on a few of my images. They're aight I guess. I'd rather focus on getting it perfect right from the camera. I have a long way to go for that.

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