New HDR and Filter Techniques with a kind of 3D-Effect

meermikemeermike Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
edited March 14, 2011 in Other Cool Shots
Some pictures, processed in the early 2010. HDR- and filtertechniques and many manual manipulations in the picture. My intension is to create the largest possible 3D-effect in "normal" 2D-pictures.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53312110@N05/5376727660/&quot; title="Schiffe im Emder Hafen von 3d-fotos.de bei Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5209/5376727660_67f4e5e64c_b.jpg&quot; width="1000" height="708" alt="Schiffe im Emder Hafen" /></a>

Ships in the harbour of Emden in Germany. This HDR-picture based on 3 Photos with -1, 0, +1 EV.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53312110@N05/5376729650/&quot; title="Emder Berge von 3d-fotos.de bei Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5161/5376729650_26d21de01c_b.jpg&quot; width="1000" height="728" alt="Emder Berge" /></a>

My first picture with the 3D-Effect, that appears suddenly at the end of the processing. All my later processed HDR-pictures based on the checklist for this photo. This HDR based of 2 Pictures with -1 and 0 EV.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/53312110@N05/5376728600/&quot; title="Schneebagger_1000pixel_350kb von 3d-fotos.de bei Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5127/5376728600_174334fbd9_b.jpg&quot; width="1000" height="716" alt="Schneebagger_1000pixel_350kb" /></a>

Digger in the winter 2009/2010 in Emden in Germany. This picture based on 3 Pictures with -1, 0, +1 EV.

If interested in this kind of photos you can visit my homepage. There is still more to find

3D-Fotos.de

Best regards and sorry for my bad english

Michael Stoehr

Comments

  • QarikQarik Registered Users Posts: 4,959 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    wow..that last one with the construction equipment really pops off the screen!
    D700, D600
    14-24 24-70 70-200mm (vr2)
    85 and 50 1.4
    45 PC and sb910 x2
    http://www.danielkimphotography.com
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,982 moderator
    edited March 10, 2011
    Hi there and welcome to Dgrin wave.gif. Interesting processing and some neat stuff on your Web site. If your host allows external linking, you will get a better response here if you use inline links to your images. How To Post on Dgrin
    My Pics
  • meermikemeermike Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited March 10, 2011
    Thanks for comment.

    Now i´ve edited my posting and embedded the code from flickr.

    Greetz
    Michael
  • yendikenoyendikeno Registered Users Posts: 214 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    Qarik wrote: »
    wow..that last one with the construction equipment really pops off the screen!

    Agreed. I like the first one as well, but that last one is amazing!
    Regards,
    AZFred
  • rwellsrwells Registered Users Posts: 6,084 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    Cool processing indeed!
    Randy
  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    clap.gifclap
    Dan
    http://danielplumer.com/
    Facebook Fan Page
  • AzzaroAzzaro Registered Users Posts: 5,643 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    That is impressive....clap.gif
  • EiaEia Registered Users Posts: 3,627 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    Wow - amazing! the first one and third really pop! The second looks like a scene from an x-box game! I can imagine the time you took to work on these! clap.gif Would like to see more!
    ~AnnaMaria~ My little life in God's big universe
  • meermikemeermike Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited March 10, 2011
    Eia wrote: »
    I can imagine the time you took to work on these!

    Yes, and that´s the reason because I processed very few pictures with these effects. All these pictures are manipulated inch per inch in many hours and many versions before I´m content with the results. After the processing I should go in a nuthouse for a while :crazy. It´s very hard work for the brain, because you have to do things with your pictures that looks very abnormal, but at the end of the processing, the effect works (more or less). But It´s still a long way to optimize the technique. The HDR- and Filtertechnique is still at the beginning - there is much more possible.
  • ashruggedashrugged Registered Users Posts: 345 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2011
    Love the pictures
    Robert

    http://rckimaging.smugmug.com/
  • TravelTravel Registered Users Posts: 276 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Give us a little more of an idea of what you are doing to get these affects. Like what kind of "manual manipulations"?
  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Very Cool thumb.gif
    Michael
  • reyvee61reyvee61 Registered Users Posts: 1,877 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Excellent work, I love them all...
    The first one is my fave.
    Yo soy Reynaldo
  • Jack'll doJack'll do Registered Users Posts: 2,977 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    1 & 3 are simply stunning. Hope you'll share you technique with us. thumb.gifthumb
    jrg.smugmug.com

    Jack
    (My real name is John but Jack'll do)
  • meermikemeermike Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited March 11, 2011
    Travel wrote: »
    Give us a little more of an idea of what you are doing to get these affects. Like what kind of "manual manipulations"?

    That´s not so easy with my little english-knowledge ne_nau.gif

    But I can explain, which software I used:

    1. Dynamic Photo HDR or Oloneos Photoengine for the HDR- and tonemapping-process

    2. Photoshop CS4/CS5 for the different sharpening and blurring in many parts of the picture (every important subject in the Photo gets a different blurring or sharpness dependig of the "distance" in the photo or from the "distance" between one subject to the other). The blurring of Lenses damaged every 3D-Effect of a picture because its unreal for our brain !!!! You have to correct the blurring manually for every part of the picture to get a correct blurring and sharpness which will accepted from our brain as a natural impression from reality.

    3. many Filters from NIK Color efex pro, to optimize the lightning- and color-contrasts in the photo. For example the filters "white neutralizer" and "Tonal contrast"

    4. NIK Viveza to optimize the darker and lighter parts of the photos. At the end you should processed a photo with a absolutely perfect exposure in every little part of the photo. It´s not allowed to have only one over- or underexposure in one inch or centimeter of the photo. Only one over- or underexposure in the picture would damage the effect immediately.

    5. NIK Define to eliminate every noise in the picture. For example every noise in a sky destroys a 3D-Effect in a picture because in reality you would never see a noise in the sky. Our brain would never accept a noisy sky as real and give you a very flat impression of those photos.

    I hope you can understand parts of my text above. It´s very hard for me to write in "english" rolleyes1.gif

    Greetz
    Michael
    www.3D-Fotos.de
  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2011
    Very nice work, and thank you for your processing explanation.

    Sam
    www.samlinvillephotography.com
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,982 moderator
    edited March 13, 2011
    Michael,

    Thanks for the explanation. It sounds like a tedious process, but the results--especially the last one--are quite impressive. Just out of curiosity, how long did you spend on processing that pic?
    My Pics
  • meermikemeermike Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited March 14, 2011
    Sorry, I visited many other forums and have forgot to look at a new comment in this forum bowdown.gif

    Now you are saying, that I´m a idiot, but for the digger-pic I have spend more than 50 hours eek7.gif. I´m an extremely perfectionist and during the processing of this picture I have done many very new experiments with different blurring and sharpening so at the end I had more than 10 different versions and that´s the best looking pic. At the end I would delete this picture because I´m not happy with the clouds, but after some day´s I have uploaded this picture in many forums and was surprised, that there came so many positive reactions about this pic ne_nau.gif. Now I love this picture, but the ship-picture is my favourite.

    For comparison: This is the original picture (0 EV)
    Original_300kb.jpg



    Meanwhile - after learning a lot about photoshop - I need round about 5-10 hours for one picture - it depends on the complexity of the scenery. Sometimes I delete a picture or abort the processing, because I´m not content with the results but normally I don´t give up headscratch.gif

    Greetz
    Michael
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited March 14, 2011
    Your time and effort really shows in your work. Great job thumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
    Mary
    www.Dogdotsphotography.com
Sign In or Register to comment.