HDR Portrait

anvilimageanvilimage Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
edited March 28, 2010 in People
A local metal band wanted me to do some shots for them and they like the gritty look of some of my HDR shots. I wouldn't normally turn to HDR for shooting people, but for these guys, I think it worked out...

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  • Darren Troy CDarren Troy C Registered Users Posts: 1,927 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    GOod work! I really like the feeling of this one....gritty with attitude! ylsuper.gif
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  • The_Fat_ZebraThe_Fat_Zebra Registered Users Posts: 120 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    I agree that it fits the subject very well!
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  • JwarJwar Registered Users Posts: 112 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    Looks like they were about to kick your a$$. I like it! The cloudy sky adds to the effect.
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  • zoomerzoomer Registered Users Posts: 3,688 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    This works cool shot!
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  • adbsgicomadbsgicom Registered Users Posts: 3,615 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    Very cool and great effect. Minor nit: it seems the image is slightly rotated clockwise. The bridge support and the horizon feel a little angled. The relative heights of the people seems to exacerbate that feeling. Still, very, very cool!
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  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    Looks great! It really fits the subject, and I find that is often the hardest thing to get right! Nice work.
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  • SwartzySwartzy Registered Users Posts: 3,293 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    This works very well. I love the mood this sets. Great job!
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 25, 2010
    I love this. iloveyou.gif

    Was this a multiple exposure true HDR, or a single exposure pseudo HDR?

    Thanks,
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  • Nikonic1Nikonic1 Registered Users Posts: 684 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    Very well done and a great idea to boot. Well executed for sure!! bowdown.gif
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  • anvilimageanvilimage Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    @Jwar: Funny, these are 5 of the nicest guys I've ever met... rolleyes1.gif

    @adbsgicom: I agree that it could look rotated when looking at certain perspectives. Billy, on the far right, really is that short. I should have put him on the uphill side (left). Todd (sunglasses, back right) is pretty tall and I put him downhill a little to try to even things out. Rich (drummer, left) sits in a cave of a drumset away from the world during their gigs and felt a little attention starved, thus he tried to get as close to the camera as he could all the time and he was actually on the uphill side. He's not as tall as he seems.

    In retrospect, I probably would have arranged them differently. When I originally cropped and straightened, I put a grid on the cables and the ones straight ahead are all vertical. But perspective/barrel distortion may be causing the north tower to look a little curved.

    Minor nits are appreciated, attention to detail will only lead to improvement!

    @Kdog: This was a 3 shot bracket at 0,+2,-2 shot handheld with my 5D mkii through a 16-35 @ 26mm. Base exposure was 1/400 @ f8 w/ISO400. The captures were combined and tonemapped in Photomatix, processed in PS and fine tuned in LR.

    Thanks for all of your comments!

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  • kris10jokris10jo Registered Users Posts: 284 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    album cover-worthy for sure, in my opinion. very cool and very nicely done!
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  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited March 25, 2010
    It's a very nice effect, works well for them.

    And I was there where you took that photo like a month ago, told my friend I'd never seen the Golden Gate Bridge in person, and he took me over there to see it / get a pic.
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  • BetzBetz Registered Users Posts: 103 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2010
    Great shot! Love the HDR usage for this one.
  • KinkajouKinkajou Registered Users Posts: 1,240 Major grins
    edited March 26, 2010
    Reminds me of some band shots by Joey Lawrence... not the 80s/90s singer, the 20-something photo superstar...

    www.joeyl.com - click on 'commercial' then 'music'... the images toward the end of the gallery have this feel to them.
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  • Photog4ChristPhotog4Christ Registered Users Posts: 716 Major grins
    edited March 27, 2010
    Great job!

    Especially for a portrait. I haven't done very many "people" HDR shots. I really like the processing!
    kdog wrote:
    Was this a multiple exposure true HDR, or a single exposure pseudo HDR?

    I'm going to guess "pseudo" because it would be hard to get people to not move at all, plus the shot with the traffic over the bridge.
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 27, 2010
    Photog4Christ wrote:
    I'm going to guess "pseudo" because it would be hard to get people to not move at all, plus the shot with the traffic over the bridge.

    No, he said multiple exposure, hand held. Pretty impressive, especially since the 5DMII doesn't have a very fast frame rate. He must have steady hand. Photomatix alignment features work pretty well too with the correct settings.
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  • anvilimageanvilimage Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2010
    It is indeed a handheld, multiple exposure image... Kdog is right about the settings in Photomatix. There are a couple and if you don't get the right result, try the other one. I also do quite a bit of cleanup in PS with layered exposure blending, too...
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  • Mike JMike J Registered Users Posts: 1,029 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2010
    Great feel to the shot. This is very cool. :D
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