So yeah i've been trying to do this for the past few days. I used photomatix and photoshop to do it. LMK what you think or what I should do. Don't be afraid to post ones you have done.
With these I used photomatix to make the HDR image, but this one is using tone mapping in the photomatrix program.
This one I converted to 16bit then used the shadow/highlight adjustments.
sweet i wanna see some more man! Me and Dave were going to try some more yesterday on our little shoot, but didnt end up bracketing any shots. When I do, i'll give it a shot and post them up.
you should noise ninja that shot of the m5 to get rid of all that noise on its nose.
open it up in filters and hit profile image. that does a quick analysis of the photo...then hit ok or whatever. you can run it again but the more you do, you will see it does weird stuff.
I am bring back this thread because while Steve has been stealing all the internets updating his new computer, I have had time to play alot with the HDR that I took this morning. It was also this thread that I learned about HDR so why make a new one.
But I have some questions.
When I took the series of photos, my camera and I were not agreeing. I had this thing figured out when I first got it and had a manual that actually worked with the camera. But the thing kept locking up when I was in the Menu's so a quick update from Nikon has completely screwed me. So all I could really do was adjust the shutter speed, and not by much. I was able to get 7 photos ranging from 1/30 to 1/500, it was kinda cloudy when I took it.
At 1/60:
And 1/500.
Just was dicking around and had no real intention to do this, so I didn't really adjust the F:stop. But my main question is this, when I finished, it came out extremely bright and grainy. It looks really looked over saturated to me:
So I auto adjusted the levels and it was an improvement and that is what I posted origninally because I had to get to school.
When I got home, I started to play around with a few filters, cannot remember what, I was button mashing, but it looked, once again, alot better. That is what is up on Steve's post:
But with Steve's quest for total internet domination, I went back at it again. This time taking a copied layer and with the blending options I used multiply to get:
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The question is, what so I do, when taking the photo, so I don't have to wash it so many times to get something like the last photo...or at least close to? I think it may be a little on the extreme side and I could of blended the layers to get it close to what I wanted, but that isn't what I am trying to do, I want to get better taking the photo's not get better at PS.
-- Edited by Raoul Duke at 22:25, 2007-01-23
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You need to meter for different things. At a min you should take 7 pictures all different exposures. Also shoot in Raw so you'll have more control than jpeg. I've tried doing HDR but i never found a picture that it would work well with.
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