Here are my first HDR attempts.

ButterNutz

Over the last few days ive been trying to take some HDR shots, thease are a few of my favories. Please tell me what you think of the tecninque applied, and help me pick my best attempt.

1.) 3 seperate exposures, generated in Photomatix

ButterNutz

2.) Heres the B/W conversion of #1.

ButterNutz

3.) 8 different exposures generated in Photomatix, Tone Mapping done in CS2.

RogersDA

I think #1 and #2 are great. The B&W conversion may be too dark for some, but I think in this case it adds to the eeriness of the image.

ButterNutz

Thank you Rogers I ageree I tryed to make the B/W conversion as dark as possible to add that dark effect thanks for lookin!
More to come!
Barry

ButterNutz

4.) 3 shots of the clouds merged to HDR using Photomatix with Tone Mapping and a bit of PS to boot.

kygarden

Love the first one

ButterNutz

5.) This is 3 diffrent shots merged, and Tone Mapped again with Photomatix.

GraphyFotoz

Barry....love the 1st one!
Guess this is another road in photography I'll hafta go down!

ButterNutz

6.) This one was done by taking 1 15 sec exposure, i duplicated it 6 times in PS, ajusted the exposure by +/- 0.5 increments. Merged to HDR , and ToneMapped in Photomatix. My first try at a single shot HDR.

ButterNutz

7.) Ok here it is the one you've all been waiting to see.
This is my fisrt attempt at a 24 shot HDR. I shot 24 differnt exposures of the same shot using my 20D a tripod and exposure bracketing. The only problem was the clouds were moving so fast that day, i kinda got some tracers.

Anywho HDR is relativly easy and really fun to try, I am going to keep practicing the technique, and continue to post my results.
Thanks for peepin, and Good Luck!
Barry.

Awais Yaqub

Wonderful work i loved them all
Hdr is really fun finding subjects to do it

Brucek

I thinkthe photo's are fantastic , but could you explain to a Newbie , what HDR stands for ?

mwalters

#2 and #4 do it for me. #2 looks straight out of a Hitchcock movie. Am I the only one that can see an outline of a very large bird formed from the clouds in the middle 3rd of #4?

Matthew

Awais Yaqub

Brucek wrote:

I thinkthe photo's are fantastic , but could you explain to a Newbie , what HDR stands for ?

High Dynamic Range

Skippy

ButterNutz wrote:

Over the last few days ive been trying to take some HDR shots, thease are a few of my favories. Please tell me what you think of the tecninque applied, and help me pick my best attempt.

1.) 3 seperate exposures, generated in Photomatix

I love the First one this has lots of depth to it, love the colours.
The others look great too ... Very nicely done indeed ...... Skippy
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Tom K.

You're rocking the HDR world with these shots. Superb work.

Deano955

I really like this shot.

Help a noob out here, what is "HDR" ?

wxwax

Deano955 wrote:

Help a noob out here, what is "HDR" ?

High Dynamic Range.

Digital cameras cannot capture the same range of light as film that's used to make prints. In other words, at similar camera settings, film will not be over- or under-exposed, but a digital camera may have either blown-out highlights or too-dark lowlights.

A new way to compensate, is for the digital photographer to take the same shot using multiple exposures levels, thus safely capturing the entire range of light. He then uses specialized software to merge the shots. Ideally, the software selects the correct exposure for each portion of the image. Obviously, a tripod is pretty much manadatory, so that the images all line-up.

ButterNutz has done some very nice work here. Not everyone is so skilled. In this thread, I have a link showing how awful I think HDR can look.

corbosman

What software do people generally use for HDR? CS2?

Cor

Van Isle

#1, #2, and the last one. Outstanding. Outstanding. Thanks for posting!

VI

System

corbosman wrote:

What software do people generally use for HDR? CS2?

Cor

photomatix is the one I see mentioned-

http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html

System

butternutz-

some very neat photos-

CBC1260

Very nice.

Deano955

wxwax wrote:

High Dynamic Range.

Digital cameras cannot capture the same range of light as film that's used to make prints. In other words, at similar camera settings, film will not be over- or under-exposed, but a digital camera may have either blown-out highlights or too-dark lowlights.

A new way to compensate, is for the digital photographer to take the same shot using multiple exposures levels, thus safely capturing the entire range of light. He then uses specialized software to merge the shots. Ideally, the software selects the correct exposure for each portion of the image. Obviously, a tripod is pretty much manadatory, so that the images all line-up.

ButterNutz has done some very nice work here. Not everyone is so skilled. In this thread, I have a link showing how awful I think HDR can look.

Thanks man. I really do like the technique BN used. I've seen other images with similar light and color saturation and had wondered how the photographer accomplished it. Now I have a pretty good idea how it's done.

ButterNutz

Thanks very much everyone for the nice words and comments, and a special thanks to mxwax for doing some explaining for me.
This was my first attempt at HDR but it certainly wont be my last, I think it can add a really cool look to certain images, but if used in the wrong way it can take away from a otherwise good shot.
I learned all the techniques applied online, if you care to learn more about HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE, check out the canon online forums and search for HDR.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/

Keeps It Real
Barry

Skippy

ButterNutz wrote:

Thanks very much everyone for the nice words and comments, and a special thanks to mxwax for doing some explaining for me.
This was my first attempt at HDR but it certainly wont be my last, I think it can add a really cool look to certain images, but if used in the wrong way it can take away from a otherwise good shot.
I learned all the techniques applied online, if you care to learn more about HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE, check out the canon online forums and search for HDR.
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/

Keeps It Real
Barry

Barry is it just me or is the NO SEARCH Function on that forum???
Cause I can't see one ... Skippy
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ButterNutz

I just tryed the link i posted and it worked. When your at the main page there is a search tab at the top of the screen. When i checked it out i just typed HDR and a whole bunch of posts came up, and if i remember correctly some of them had some good information to get me started. Some of posts also had links to additional information.

Other than that my best suggestion to get you started at shooting HDR's is to take out your tripod, turn your camera to RAW, set up your bracketing to your desired exposures, turn your camera to drive mode, and start shooting.
Try to experiment with different exposures, and different amount of shots taken. When you have a full memory card go home and start merging them together using Photomatix, make sure when doing so you check the box that says align images. When your cpu is done merging the files use the tonemapping feature, use the filter as desired, than save.
Open in photoshop, do any last minute PPing and BAM...your done!


Hope that helped you out

Regards Barry

Skippy

ButterNutz wrote:

I just tryed the link i posted and it worked. When your at the main page there is a search tab at the top of the screen. When i checked it out i just typed HDR and a whole bunch of posts came up, and if i remember correctly some of them had some good information to get me started. Some of posts also had links to additional information.

Other than that my best suggestion to get you started at shooting HDR's is to take out your tripod, turn your camera to RAW, set up your bracketing to your desired exposures, turn your camera to drive mode, and start shooting.
Try to experiment with different exposures, and different amount of shots taken. When you have a full memory card go home and start merging them together using Photomatix, make sure when doing so you check the box that says align images. When your cpu is done merging the files use the tonemapping feature, use the filter as desired, than save.
Open in photoshop, do any last minute PPing and BAM...your done!


Hope that helped you out

Regards Barry

Thanks I see what the problem is, you have to registered .. Skippy

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