PuckMonkey
Yeah, dusk'ish is a good lighting range, and ambient colored neon creates some really nice effects with the HDR. Can't wait to see more from your walks.
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Here's a work in progress of a technique that I've been working on lately. What I am doing is, after creating the HDR file, I create multiple tone-mapped files, each adjusted for specific parts of the particular image. Then I'm combining those images yet again in Photoshop and blending and masking. Much more involved obviously, but I've created some interesting images lately that way. Not for every HDR image, but a useful tool to have available.
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Originally Posted by PuckMonkey
One more from yesterday's shots.
PS: And yes, I do realize that all the HDR stuff I am posting is "dark".
Absolutely, Bad-Ass!
I've been gone from the boards for quite a while but I'm still pursuing the photography thing and I'm even taking a B&W Film class at my local college. I should be buying a DSLR soon enough...
Thanks, Poppa!
It depends on the feel I'm trying to achieve with the image, but I have done both. The image above, for example, I used one tone mapped image to pick up the sun rays that I was able to optimize on one, and maintain the overall feel as I composited the second image that was tone mapped for the cityscape (and a third that was done for the interior). Once I post-process that image, it should all blend together nicely. For clean shots (like Glenn's amazing Getty pics, and the cool neon shots that rinkrat is going to shoot tonight), I definitely make use of the originals.
I'm also experimenting with using a modified black channel as a key plate, but until I upgrade my camera rig, my stuff isn't sharp enough to make proper use of it yet. But the results so far have made me a happy camper. I know it's going to do what I want it to do.
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