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Here's another attempt.

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Dunno about it though.
 
Blurker said:
Here's another attempt.

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Dunno about it though.
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I'm not sure about this image Blurker... I think it doesn't have enough range to be an HDR... or at least to effectively be one I think. I'm no pro though.... it all looks like its in the same color range.... maybe something with a little more contrast?
 
That is the HDR image posted above... Here's the orginal.

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And the HDR.

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But I do tend to agree that it's not the best subject for HDR. I thought the movement of the water (between the bracketed images) would be an interesting thing.
 
HeShootsNScores said:
I'm not sure about this image Blurker... I think it doesn't have enough range to be an HDR... or at least to effectively be one I think. I'm no pro though.... it all looks like its in the same color range.... maybe something with a little more contrast?
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Gonna agree here, although after seeing the original the HDR did help the image a bit i think theres better/easier ways to acheive this with this image. The bricks are the only part of the image that are really benefiting from HDR.
 
Nice one PM.

This is the kind of pic to use with a wide range of tones and plenty of detail in the dark areas.

Excellent pic.
 
Here's another. After the 5 or so HDRs that I have processed so far, I am amazed at how unpredictable the outcomes are. Still not sure if I like it though, although some of the results are somewhat interesting.

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rinkrat said:
Nice one PM.

This is the kind of pic to use with a wide range of tones and plenty of detail in the dark areas.

Excellent pic.
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Thanks Mike. I decided today was going to be the day that I was going to do this HDR stuff to see what I could learn, and you don't really learn anything until you start processing them. I've learned a lot already. Just not sure if I have learned to like it or not.
 
I agree PM... its unpredictable as to what is going to come out. Plus I'm not crazy about CS3's merge to HDR tool... for some reason I just haven't gotten the hang of it yet.
 
HeShootsNScores said:
I agree PM... its unpredictable as to what is going to come out. Plus I'm not crazy about CS3's merge to HDR tool... for some reason I just haven't gotten the hang of it yet.
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Yeah, I gave up on the CS3 merge action a long time ago and went ahead and did the plonk for Photomatix Pro. The tone mapping seems to be pretty essential.
 
I think it was $99. For $119 you get a tone mapping CS3 plug-in, but it's kinda lame. Could be handy in the future though.
 
Last one. I learned more about what not to do yesterday that what to do, I think. Not necessarily a bad thing. And I'm getting a feel for the files and how to encourage them to go one way or the other. I wouldn't call these results great by any stretch, but the process is interesting enough to pursue.

But next time I think I'll shoot something other than foliage blowing in the wind with my manual-bracketing camera.

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Edit: Upon further review, this image is a disaster. It's an eye-riot. Too much, too loud, and a horrible candidate for an HDR image. But I'm leaving it up as an exercise in shame.
 
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for what its worth puckmonkey all the color ones feel really oversaturated to me and i think kinda of overwhelm the image, i think all of these would benefit greatly from not as much saturation, thats just my personal opinion though everyone has their own vision of what makes a image works.
 
ianmonsta said:
for what its worth puckmonkey all the color ones feel really oversaturated to me and i think kinda of overwhelm the image, i think all of these would benefit greatly from not as much saturation, thats just my personal opinion though everyone has their own vision of what makes a image works.
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Yeah, I've started to back off the saturation a bit as I play with the files. I'm finding that the hues tend to shift unpredictably unless I'm punching them into submission, so I'm still being a little lazy with the color control. But that's my next phase of experimentation. I'm doing a lot of reverse engineering with my testing since, for example, Step 5 has a lot to do with what you did in Step 1 even though they seem to be unrelated.

I'm digging the process though, even if the results are still kinda "meh...".
 
PuckMonkey, it seems like you have a lot of haloing going on, almost like a high radius unsharp mask. I wonder if you want to increase the amount of light smoothing a bit (a lot) to reduce the haloing. Would you mind posting your RAWs?
 
PuckMonkey said:
I think it was $99. For $119 you get a tone mapping CS3 plug-in, but it's kinda lame. Could be handy in the future though.
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There is a discount from some photo website somewhere. I'll try and track it down.
 
PuckMonkey said:
OK, this is REALLY the last one. Didn't mean to hijack this thread.


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this is my favorite of the bunch. The color range is great, and not as over saturated as the others. Plus, I think you all but eliminated the HALO effect that Valleyfan was talking about.

I also like the sharpness....

One thing I can't seem to get a hang of in HDR photog. is when the RAW files are merged, the focus seems soft to me.... after all the processing.

That didn't happen on this shot. ^^^

I like.


The Arboretum by the santa anita mall?
 
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