LIGHT Discussion: HDR

basflt

eoren1 wrote: »

Great shots in this thread! I would love to see some of your settings in Photomatix for a more 'natural' look. Specifically:

Details Enhancer or Tone Compressor? I assume the former
Strength:
Color Saturation:
Luminosity:
Microcontrast:
Smoothing:
White Point:
Black Point:
Gamma:

Here's one of mine that came out okay


I find that most of my shots feel a bit too 'cooked' but I'm struggling with how to squeeze out a more natural HDR shot out of Photomatix.
Thanks,
E

dont know what U mean with that statement
its exactly images like this that make HDR for what it is
if you want natural looking , you dont need Photomatix
this one is real HDR , not over-cooked in any way[ IMO ]

The Stig

Just for the hell of it ;p

The Stig

# 2

willard3

HDR also works well for B&W images for the same reason it works well with color. A white statue in bright sunlight. I used HDR here to preserve detail in both the highlights and shadows.

catspaw

The Stig wrote: »

Just for the hell of it ;p

THAT is lovely! and just how I (at least) think HDR is used best. The ground isn't too bright but it's pretty much how our eyes adjust, whereas the camera itself would darken it too much.. No halos, but a happy glowing sky

pathfinder

willard3 wrote: »

HDR also works well for B&W images for the same reason it works well with color. A white statue in bright sunlight. I used HDR here to preserve detail in both the highlights and shadows.

Nicely rendered B&W.

I find this true as well, and I don't think it is widely appreciated either.

The Stig

catspaw wrote: »

THAT is lovely! and just how I (at least) think HDR is used best. The ground isn't too bright but it's pretty much how our eyes adjust, whereas the camera itself would darken it too much.. No halos, but a happy glowing sky

Thanks

Chris ;p

zenstate

Ok, so this post has inspired me to sign up here on dgrin. I'm a huge fan of HDR - but like most I find it tough to walk that tightrope between natural and LSD flashback.

The photos I've seen here are incredible, so with slight nervousness, I'm posting one of mine for your (most welcome) opinions/critique!



Cheers,
-Sam

zenstate.smugmug.com

PrevailingConditions

Here are a couple that are probably more than most would like, but the weather was awful the day I took these and I had only one day for picture taking. Sometimes you gotta play the hand you're dealt, right?

Mike

#1


#2

The Stig

zenstate wrote: »

Ok, so this post has inspired me to sign up here on dgrin. I'm a huge fan of HDR - but like most I find it tough to walk that tightrope between natural and LSD flashback.

The photos I've seen here are incredible, so with slight nervousness, I'm posting one of mine for your (most welcome) opinions/critique!



Cheers,
-Sam

zenstate.smugmug.com

Hey Sam,

I like it, I think you have a done a fantastic job and not over done ;p

Chris

The Stig

#2 Mike

Spot on

Chris ;p

Brooklyndesert

HDR Sort of
I haven't done HDR the way it's described here, with 3 exposures and blended with software. I often use multiple layers of the same image, masking out some areas and adjusting shadows and highlights. I had to mask out the bottom part of the photo as the trees and mountains were too dark. I use PhotoShop CS4.

Brooklyndesert

PrevailingConditions

The Stig wrote: »

#2 Mike

Spot on

Chris ;p

Thanks Chris, I'm glad you like it.

Mike

schmoo

Brooklyndesert wrote: »

You're almost there! The link you got was a webpage link to the lightbox view (you can tell by the -LB at the end) so you'll need to grab the direct image URL instead. Since your gallery has right-click protection turned on you can get this using the Share > Get a Link > Photo Links option in the gallery. It'll look like this: http://www.petermcmahonstudio.com/Photography/desert/DSC0537clouds/952006644_7tY5M-L.jpg

Here you go!

dlplumer

Cool lenticular clouds I learned about these on dgrin from R. Coscorrosa :ivar

TrulyAlaskan

Here are a couple of my favorite examples

Brooklyndesert

Thanks for the help on this. Much appreciated.

PrevailingConditions

Here's one more from a couple days ago. This was three shots, hand-held.

Thanks for looking.

Mike

The Stig

Hey Mike

That is fantastic, very impressed ;p

Love it

Chris
www.sinclairjonesphotography.com

basflt

HDR at 90 km/h
as a truck-driver i allways carry around my Fuji P&Scamera

here is (part of) Holland , viewed at 90km/h ( 80 allowed )



if HDR looks natural , its not HDR

PrevailingConditions

The Stig wrote: »

Hey Mike

That is fantastic, very impressed ;p

Love it

Chris
www.sinclairjonesphotography.com

Thanks Chris. I always like comments like that. I'll send your check off in the mail later today

Mike

brocot

Hdr
Made with Potomatix Pro. Then adjusted in Lightroom. Maybe a little bit to dark ?

kdog

brocot wrote: »

Made with Potomatix Pro. Then adjusted in Lightroom. Maybe a little bit to dark ?

Not too dark to me. Looks great!

JHeffner

I like HDR. It's the over-done tonemapping that aggravates me sometimes. It can be hard to pull off, but when done right, it's amazing.

My favorite HDR shot:

Cameron

JHeffner - I really like this one. The HDR helps reproduce that amazing sky which helps make the shot for me!

TJDIV

I've always enjoyed HDR images... overdone, underdone, whatever. They're cool IMO.

A few of mine:
Upper Mosquito Falls in the U.P. of MI.


The riverbank:


U.P. Living


Cheers,

reflection

350 image HDR panorama
It took approximately 350 images to make this 360° spherical panorama. It is composed of 35 HDR images shot as bracketed sets of 9 images then stitched with PTGUI and finished in PhotoShop CS4. In total, I shot around 600 images, using mostly live-view. It took about 4 hours to shoot and I exhausted 2 batteries, dead as a doornail.

Hope you like it (BTW: also posted in the "10 best of 2010" thread)

Charles