HDR with a JPG?

NightShadow · 24 Jun 2006 at 02:37

Hiya ppl,

My first post in the photography section

. Just wanting to know if it's possible to do HDR with just 1 JPG file, my camera doesn't do RAW mode and i don't have a tripod to get 3 shots from the same exact angle so im just trying to play with the contrast etc to do it. I've had one attempt at it but its not how i would like it

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Heres my HDR and the original:

http://www.ttop.nu/images/1.JPG - link as its big (but under 1MB, taken straight from camera)

If possible could somebody have a go at HDR'ing it for me better than my attempt?

Cheers

NS

Pho · 24 Jun 2006 at 06:11

My googling suggests you need to shoot in RAW then you can adjust the exposures later.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/raw2hdr/

You can buy a mini-tripod that's flexable for about £2 which work really well.

Marik · 24 Jun 2006 at 07:57

you can do it with one RAW file, one JPG I aint so sure though

MrScott · 24 Jun 2006 at 09:31

It can be done with 1 jpeg, but (obviously) it doesn't look as good as the real thing. Here's one I did in photoshop using 1 jpeg:

I did it by taking the original jpeg and under and over exposing it, then using the 3 images to make a HDR. The problem is photoshop read the EXIF of all 3 showing the exposures were identical, so I had to save the files without EXIF and tell photoshop the exposure manually. It was a bit of a pain, I don't know how photomatix would cope.

A.N.Other · 24 Jun 2006 at 11:04

You can definitely do it in jpeg, but it doesn't look as good as doing it with a RAW file. My camera doesn't shoot RAW either (well the one I have at the moment doesn't, but I'm working on it

...), so I can sympathise with you.

TBH to get a really good HDR image, you would need a more interesting sky that the one in your picture, anyway.

Scam · 24 Jun 2006 at 11:43

You could mess about with a lot of layer masks in PS? You wont quite get the HDR look but you can do stuff like bring out the sky.