My first HDR image.

I must admit I'm more of a fan of the 'in your face' HDR, if done well...

Here are some of mine:

parliment2.jpg


berko_view_2.jpg


01a_ivinghoe_view.jpg


barb_mono_new.jpg


landscape_16.jpg


Not to everyone's taste I know but I like it and that's what counts ;-)
 
lemonkettaz said:
Do i need to take 3photos of the same scene?

3 shots with different exposure settings?
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Yup 3 shots of the same scene (tripod necessary obviously)
Take a shot at -2 AV, 0 AV, +2 AV and thats all you need.
:)
 
Puz said:
Yup 3 shots of the same scene (tripod necessary obviously)
Take a shot at -2 AV, 0 AV, +2 AV and thats all you need.
:)
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n00b alert here but I am just taking my first steps in photography. Whats AV Please ?

Thanks
 
Puz said:
Yup 3 shots of the same scene (tripod necessary obviously)
Take a shot at -2 AV, 0 AV, +2 AV and thats all you need.
:)
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dont you mean EV as altering the AV will change depth of field?
 
You dont have to use three seperate exposures. You could also take one RAW shot and create 3 TIFF's and edit the exposure levels in PS to -2, 0, +2. Although this way doesn't always come out very well. You need the shot to be perfectly exposed really.

P.s love the shots mohain, go in-your-face hdr team! :D
 
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Im confused. Im looking at me own digital cam.. but i am unsure whether to go the whole hog... or not, i dont want to end up with a camera i cant do anything with..but im not entirely convinced i should fork out for a slr camera when im not clued up yet....

HDR is awesome, cant wait to be able to get some of that action
 
lemonkettaz said:
Im confused. Im looking at me own digital cam.. but i am unsure whether to go the whole hog... or not, i dont want to end up with a camera i cant do anything with..but im not entirely convinced i should fork out for a slr camera when im not clued up yet....

HDR is awesome, cant wait to be able to get some of that action
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Don't buy a new camera just for HDR! Only if you're serious about this hobby. You can get reasonable results from 1 JPEG you know!
 
robertgilbert86 said:
Don't buy a new camera just for HDR! Only if you're serious about this hobby. You can get reasonable results from 1 JPEG you know!
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Oh i know, i am serious. I always wanted a proper camera... even when i was a lil nipper wanting to take photos of bugs... no idea why
 
robertgilbert86 said:
Don't buy a new camera just for HDR! Only if you're serious about this hobby. You can get reasonable results from 1 JPEG you know!
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ive just tryed it for the first time ever, using 1 jpeg.
original

HDR


its also my first time using photomatix so ill try out some other settings
 
by changing the light levels in photoshop

first open photoshop with a picture, then save it as 'original'
then press ctrl+L to open the light levels, adjust so the picture is brighter then save as '+1'
then do the same again but making the picture darker, save as '-1'

then finally just do the usual merging method in photomatix

thats how i did it anyway :)
 
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