I will see if I can get you an invitation. You can also ask on Twitter if you use that by sending a tweet to @hdrspotting and maybe post some links. Your photos are fantastic!
I followed them on tweeter and will try there, i appreciate that, and i will post more here and there when possible.
Very nice!
Same with me, i love that surreal different look of HDR, if i want natural then i better don't use HDR at all, so it is HDR whatever it look and have fun, who doesn't like it don't force him to come.
Two issues I always face - High noise and halo effect...Would be interested if anyone is willing to share tips on that.
High noise then you have to lower the tonemapping or shoot always at lowest ISO [50-200]
Halo, also again with tonemapping, you can brush in photoshop, but the secret is all in Tone Mapping.
Cool, see, it is not so difficult, i will have the same result if i shoot this image myself, so no need for tips or tutors or so, with more experimenting you can do whatever you want by the time.
Keep posting, you people are lucky living in such beautiful places, i just travel to be in your countries and my best HDR are from there.
Two issues I always face - High noise and halo effect...Would be interested if anyone is willing to share tips on that.
This is all what I have found to work for me and to be true to how I get my results with the lowest noise possible when using Photomatix:
- Shoot at the lowest ISO possible (as others have stated)
- I find that the more EV's between shots, the more the noise because Photomatix tends to want to fill in detail that isn't there. I usually see a big difference between -4, -2, 0, +2, +4 as opposed to say -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. That being said, I usually shoot with -4 to +4 and if I have time get a bunch of exposures even between that to get low noise. Bit it all really matters with the subject you are shooting.
- Noise can all be cleared up by the amount of smoothing. But when you increase the smoothing you reduce the hyper-real effect that some people like (like myself).
- Since I love to include dramatic skies in my outdoor shots, I tend to get a lot of noise in the sky, and I mean a lot. How I fix this is not ground breaking. I select the sky and run it through noise reduction software. I then inverse the selection and sharpen everything else that is not noisy.
- I also feel (and this is subjective really) that I get better results with using Lightroom or any other app that is design to convert RAW to TIFFs than letting Photomatix convert my RAWs to TIFFs. Some people are very happy with letting Photomatix do it all though.
- I don't adjust and sturation, black, whites, in Photomatix. I take the tonemapped TIFF and do that in Camera Raw.
- Oh yeah, always shoot in RAW. You have more data to play with that way.
With all that being said. Here are some single RAWs that I converted to pseudo-HDRs where the RAW was shot in ISO400:
Here is a off the camera RAW versus the pseudo-HDR I converted it to:
Too many large full Quotes, though, so it takes to long to see all the individual images on 4 pages!
Don
Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
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Too many large full QUotes, though, so it takes to long to see all the individual images on 4 pages!
Don
Sorry for that, next time when i will quote, i will delete the photos links or at least convert then to just a link shown and not the image itself, i agree.
Sorry for that, next time when i will quote, i will delete the photos links or at least convert then to just a link shown and not the image itself, i agree.
Thanks, I have already put in a moderator request to trim the earlier ones!
I'll add mine when I get to do the pp on them.
Don
Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
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Here are a few I did last month during an assignment to a local museum. This place is just fantastic. The museum's policy is absolutely no tripods or even camera bags of any kind inside the museum. You can take photos but without any flash. Kinda standard for museums. The digital curator liked the pseudo-HDR I did and granted me full access to the place using whatever equipment I wish. Personally, it was quite an honor. Here are a few:
Hdr Hdr Hdr
Makes me want to go back to that Museum!
Haven't been there in years!
Thanks,
Don
Don Ricklin - Gear: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, was Pentax K7
'I was older then, I'm younger than that now' ....
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Interesting shots, Trig, reminding me about a museum i visited when i was in Scotland, same rules: no tripod, no flash....etc.
Keep up your nice work and HDR
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I followed them on tweeter and will try there, i appreciate that, and i will post more here and there when possible.
Some of my stuff:
Shooting with a Pentax K-5 and a slew of other goodies
SmugMug | HDR Spotting | Flickr | Facebook | Google+
Shooting with a Pentax K-5 and a slew of other goodies
SmugMug | HDR Spotting | Flickr | Facebook | Google+
Same with me, i love that surreal different look of HDR, if i want natural then i better don't use HDR at all, so it is HDR whatever it look and have fun, who doesn't like it don't force him to come.
Link to my other HDR stuff at SmugMug is found here: http://trigphotography.smugmug.com/High-Dynamic-Range-Imagery
Any feedback would be appreciated over there.
Shooting with a Pentax K-5 and a slew of other goodies
SmugMug | HDR Spotting | Flickr | Facebook | Google+
Oh yeah, i have a feedback, your HDR are not true, not natural, fake HDR, cartoonish.....etc
http://danielplumer.com/
Facebook Fan Page
High noise then you have to lower the tonemapping or shoot always at lowest ISO [50-200]
Halo, also again with tonemapping, you can brush in photoshop, but the secret is all in Tone Mapping.
My first pseudo HDR from single exposure:
http://danielplumer.com/
Facebook Fan Page
Cool, see, it is not so difficult, i will have the same result if i shoot this image myself, so no need for tips or tutors or so, with more experimenting you can do whatever you want by the time.
Keep posting, you people are lucky living in such beautiful places, i just travel to be in your countries and my best HDR are from there.
thanks for sharing.
Glen in Orlando
- Shoot at the lowest ISO possible (as others have stated)
- I find that the more EV's between shots, the more the noise because Photomatix tends to want to fill in detail that isn't there. I usually see a big difference between -4, -2, 0, +2, +4 as opposed to say -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. That being said, I usually shoot with -4 to +4 and if I have time get a bunch of exposures even between that to get low noise. Bit it all really matters with the subject you are shooting.
- Noise can all be cleared up by the amount of smoothing. But when you increase the smoothing you reduce the hyper-real effect that some people like (like myself).
- Since I love to include dramatic skies in my outdoor shots, I tend to get a lot of noise in the sky, and I mean a lot. How I fix this is not ground breaking. I select the sky and run it through noise reduction software. I then inverse the selection and sharpen everything else that is not noisy.
- I also feel (and this is subjective really) that I get better results with using Lightroom or any other app that is design to convert RAW to TIFFs than letting Photomatix convert my RAWs to TIFFs. Some people are very happy with letting Photomatix do it all though.
- I don't adjust and sturation, black, whites, in Photomatix. I take the tonemapped TIFF and do that in Camera Raw.
- Oh yeah, always shoot in RAW. You have more data to play with that way.
With all that being said. Here are some single RAWs that I converted to pseudo-HDRs where the RAW was shot in ISO400:
Here is a off the camera RAW versus the pseudo-HDR I converted it to:
Shooting with a Pentax K-5 and a slew of other goodies
SmugMug | HDR Spotting | Flickr | Facebook | Google+
Too many large full Quotes, though, so it takes to long to see all the individual images on 4 pages!
Don
'I was older then, I'm younger than that now' ....
My Blog | Q+ | Moderator, Lightroom Forums | My Amateur Smugmug Stuff | My Blurb book Rust and Whimsy. More Rust , FaceBook .
Sorry for that, next time when i will quote, i will delete the photos links or at least convert then to just a link shown and not the image itself, i agree.
I'll add mine when I get to do the pp on them.
Don
'I was older then, I'm younger than that now' ....
My Blog | Q+ | Moderator, Lightroom Forums | My Amateur Smugmug Stuff | My Blurb book Rust and Whimsy. More Rust , FaceBook .
Cool, we are waiting
And this is where they were all taken:
Shooting with a Pentax K-5 and a slew of other goodies
SmugMug | HDR Spotting | Flickr | Facebook | Google+
Makes me want to go back to that Museum!
Haven't been there in years!
Thanks,
Don
'I was older then, I'm younger than that now' ....
My Blog | Q+ | Moderator, Lightroom Forums | My Amateur Smugmug Stuff | My Blurb book Rust and Whimsy. More Rust , FaceBook .
Thanks man. Great stuff
http://danielplumer.com/
Facebook Fan Page
Keep up your nice work and HDR
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Fantastic HDR, i love'm, if those are from you as an amateur, then what you can do as a professional? I am an amateur as well.