HDR photography (PICS)
 

how it works:
- you set your camera to take multiple shots simultaneously
- pref three shots
- regular, over exposed, and underexposed
- each will give you details in different sections of the shot
- to get the sky, you lose detail everywhere else (goes dark); to get detail on landscape, sky comes out bright, etc..

this software Photomatix (photoshop also does this FILE-> AUTOMATE->MERGE HDR, but this one's better) puts the three together and comes out great! this is my first attempt at it so bear with me...

http://www.abyssent.com/abyss_al/hdr/mammoth_002.jpg


post em if you got em... I got some more coming... :)

catalyst does some great hdr stuff

I've been playing around with HDR myself but still need to work the kinks out. What seems to work best is -2/0/+2 EV and letting Photomatix do its thing.

yepp :thumbsup



here's another one:

http://www.abyssent.com/abyss_al/hdr/bike_001.jpg

Really beautiful...

thats great looking stuff

HI Allen :)

HI Steve :upsidedow

odamn! That's pretty sweet. I didn't even know you could do that. Time to start practicing that technique :thumbsup

FL show:

http://www.abyssent.com/abyss_al/hdr/miami_001.jpg


:)

Wow! I'd never seen HDR done in B&W before. That's a great shot.

nice work as usual al - I might try this out sometime - planning a trip to the desert soon

i love them :thumbsup

thank you buddy.. can I come? :upsidedow

Good pictures i like them alot!

awesome pics nice job :):):)

Thats another nice one :thumbsup

Looks like the Internext Miami show in Hollywood, FL, but I could be wrong, seeing how I had an ocean view in my room.

That is its from the side of the hotel. If he turned to the right he would see the ocean. Thats the canal right in front of that building.

very handy, thanks

great pic nice shot

Your work is very good. Kudos!!!

You got mad SKILLZ!!!! Miss u!

very nice buddy

Great shots and thanks for the info. This one looks almost like a combination of B&W and color. Nice effect :thumbsup

http://www.abyssent.com/abyss_al/hdr/bike_001.jpg

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great images

What kind of camera can you do this with?

I've played with HDR a few times, but I kinda feel dirty every time I do it. Don't get me wrong - it definitely has its place - but sometimes it's done to death
For me, the HDR balance is when it's subtle:

http://ninjito.com/dump/2008-01-02/qx-rerb-1.jpg
http://ninjito.com/dump/2008-01-01/qx-noisy-3.jpg

I must admit though, I prefer the challenge of getting those similar shots, without the HDR, ie,

http://ninjito.com/dump/2007-11-01/qx-ce-2.jpg
http://ninjito.com/dump/2008-01-05/qx-castle-2.jpg

-- for example :)

Any camera that you can over / under expose. You can even 'trick' cameras that can't normally do it into doing it, but I guess your biggest trouble then is having the shots exactly lined up :)

he said 3 shots at the same time. How do you do that.????

Here are a few of mine.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/...edc48e7f_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/...6fa095d7_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2264/...04cab78d_o.jpg

I'd like to know that too. I've asked a few people in this thread for some shooting tips, but they start tossing out camera geek lingo, then i go cross eyed and have no idea what they're talking about.

If you're using a [d]SLR, or similar, you'll have a thing called exposure bracketing.
You'll take one shot over exposed, one under, and one normal.

It's not 3 photos at once, it's just taking 3 photos, each with a different exposure level.

What HDR is actually doing is merging all the elements together to one - so it will use the 'normallly' exposed photo as a base - for over-exposed elements, it'll pull them from the under-exposed image, and for under-exposed elements, it'll bring them in from the over-exposed image - hence being able to have a deep blue sky + clouds on a sunny day, and the foreground correctly exposed....

So did you take 3 shots one being no cycles, one with the dude in the air and one with the stationary bikes then combine them?

That, or he's taken 3 photos of the stationary bikers, hdr'd them, and photoshopped out the movement of the guy in the sky.

Thanks quantum,

Its always nice the way you are willing to help us.

:winkwink: You guys put up w/ my monthly photo - spam threads ;)

thats what i was thinking, it would be nice if you could take 3 captures in one shot, the dynamic range would be out of this world..
there was another guy here who posted some very nice evening time hdr photos, i think they were city views/lights.

Love that parallax effect. Is that from a 17-40mm 4.0L?

Don't think you mean parallax ;)
You might mean [barrel] distortion, because it's a rectalinear lens, though.

Could you do the same thing if you're shooting in Raw format and just nudge the exposure +/- and save as 3 separate .JPG's?

To an extent. Photomatix will actually let you do that [lets you tweak the EV] - but with that said, there's only so much you can pull out of a RAW...

That's fucking awesome !! :thumbsup

we had both views from our room.. that's from the bedroom balcony :winkwink:

miss you more :winkwink:

:bowdown:bowdown:bowdown:bowdown:bowdown

I suck at explaining LOL

nah.. just a plain 17-88 that came with the camera :winkwink:

Great shots :thumbsup

Your photos rock man. Spam on.