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 shelka04
   
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico
Gender: Male
 |  |  |  |  | My first HDR image, please look
< on 1/8/2007 2:43 AM >
|  | | | Obviously you are more then welcome to tell me this sucks more then the perfect vacuum of space, BUT if ya have any ideas on how or what to change i'm all ears.
I should also add I think / guess that this was shot the minute after the sun went down, that's why there are no drastic shadows and such a massive shift to the blue side of the spectrum.
When is a good time for HDR?
[last edit 1/8/2007 3:21 AM by shelka04 - edited 1 times]
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Vinsanity
Location: NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 1 on 1/8/2007 3:08 AM >
| | | | Dobi should put in his 2cents here.
It's an interesting photos, and the colors are neat...
But, those colors are way too over the top for me.
Just shoot film, your shots won't look like HDR, but they'll at least be believable and they'll look sick as hell at the same time. 
Who doesn't want to shoot fire from their ass? |
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shelka04
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 2 on 1/8/2007 3:20 AM >
| | | | Well I asked for it
BUT let me say this.
We're so far out in the desert here, there are no camera shops, infact the only local developing is at walmart and i'd sooner trust them to deliver my unborn young.
Life is not always one exit away, God I miss Jersey, 70 miles to a starbucks here.
If i can't get believable images out of my 5,000 DSLR there's no reason to think the regular A2 would do better.
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DanWhitham
 
Location: Providence, RI.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 3 on 1/8/2007 3:28 AM >
| | | | I find with most HDR, especially with this one is that if you go overboard it tends to look like a painting. By all means this is a very neat picture, the colors of the desert, & landscape are nuts. I think this would look good in a starbucks, or in some rich yuppy bitches house in weston ct. I think any person that looks at this wont see a photograph, when they look and think of what they see, their thought will be "nice painting!"
FUCK HDR, stick with the basics!
p.s. try selling that print to starbucks.....
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dsankt
Location: live and in the fresh
| | | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 4 on 1/8/2007 3:35 AM >
| | | | Posted by shelka04
When is a good time for HDR?
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When you have a solid understanding of photography/light, and what the understated use of hdr can add to your picture
Too much hdr is a technicolour puke creation that looks like jackson pollock discovered photography.
[last edit 1/8/2007 3:39 AM by dsankt - edited 2 times]
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stoop_master
Location: south uk
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 5 on 1/8/2007 10:11 AM >
| | | | Posted by DEDZ0NE
FUCK HDR, stick with the basics!
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amen to that!!!!
www.sub-urban.com www.st00p.net |
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Vinsanity
Location: NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 6 on 1/8/2007 1:01 PM >
| | | | I am in complete agreement with DEDZ0NE and dsankt.
The picture is interesting, but it does not look real. It does not look like photography.
I understand that you may not have access to people who can develop your film, but:
Why not consider saving up for a darkroom/learning the techniques involved?
I am saving up for a darkroom right now. Once i move out of my current place, i will have enough money for a darkroom, and thus, i will have one. It will save you money in the long-run, and you will not have to drive anywhere to develop your shots.
But, that is just a suggestion.
My opinion on photography is; If you can take a photo and make just that photo look great in-camera, no post-processing, no added effects and so on and so forth, then you are golden. That is just my opinion, and how i do my own work, personally.
Who doesn't want to shoot fire from their ass? |
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laslow
Location: Tewksbury, MA
you have quite a temper for someone who takes pictures of flowers
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 7 on 1/8/2007 2:44 PM >
| | | | Posted by DEDZ0NE
FUCK HDR, stick with the basics!
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*applause*
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IrIsHmOm
Location: San Joaquin Valley, CA
Gender: Female
I'll kill your face...
| | | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 8 on 1/8/2007 2:57 PM >
| | | | I kinda like it how it is... I like the blue! That's just me though.. I like HDR that's wild like that.. ^_~
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desmet
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
| | | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 9 on 1/8/2007 3:44 PM >
| | | | This site is filled with film photographers who apparently never made a test strip and never touched the magenta on their color heads, so I would take what you're reading so far with a grain of salt.
The picture is not that bad, but it does lack some depth. You've managed to avoid some of the pitfalls of HDR here, but it does not seem like there are enough deep blacks. I would definitely do levels or if you know how do threshhold to find the black and white points and then use the eyedroppers in curves. Then use curves to get a little deeper on the dark side.
The problem with HDR a lot of times is that even if you avoid the huge smudges of dark in the light areas of the picture, you can lose depth...everything starts looking like midtones. It makes the images seem flat and lifeless and that's what has happened here, to a degree. The grass is also somewhat fucked up.
If you want my advice, learn how to use layer masks to blend exposures. It's the same idea as HDR except that you have a lot more control. The current generation of HDR tools seems to work OK on some images but just makes a horror show out of others so you're better off knowing how to manually blend until they get better.
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rsolimeo
Location: Philly
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 10 on 1/8/2007 3:49 PM >
| | | | Here is my .02 ... i like the pictures composition and everything, but the colors are way too over the top for me.
Now i have yet to actually try HDR photography yet, so this is just my ideas while looking through them.
I really really like it when it is done correctly, and is used to highlight areas that are too dark in an exposure. I do not however, like hdr when it is used to play with crazy color combinations. But that is just me.
You should be happy with your photography first, and then worry about what everyone else wants it to look like.
"Exploration is really the essence of human existence." [Frank Broman]
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micro
Gender: Male
Slowly I turned
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 11 on 1/8/2007 3:50 PM >
| | | | It's true. Two exposures and a good layer mask will generally get you better results each time. It might not give you the HDR effect (which is a good thing, imo), but it will help make up for some of the shortcomings of digital, particularly in the highlight areas.
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Vinsanity
Location: NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 12 on 1/8/2007 7:19 PM >
| | | | I really like how you think, rsolimeo.
You should come out to Trenton for a day and we should get some exploring done.
Who doesn't want to shoot fire from their ass? |
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rsolimeo
Location: Philly
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 13 on 1/8/2007 7:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by Vinsanity
I really like how you think, rsolimeo.
You should come out to Trenton for a day and we should get some exploring done.
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ohhh i plan on it believe me.
"Exploration is really the essence of human existence." [Frank Broman]
http://flickr.com/photos/rsolimeo http://www.myspace.com/ryansolimeo |
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Vinsanity
Location: NJ
Gender: Male
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 14 on 1/8/2007 7:24 PM >
| | | | Posted by rsolimeo
ohhh i plan on it believe me.
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PM me your info asap, and we can chat about it.
Who doesn't want to shoot fire from their ass? |
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TDK1000
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 15 on 1/8/2007 11:26 PM >
| | | | The last explorer to post HDR was burned alive in a tire for heresy.
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Jonsered
Location: Back in New Mexico where I belong
Gender: Male
Dressed for a scarecrow ball.........
| |  | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 16 on 1/8/2007 11:30 PM >
| | | | Shelka, I recognize that place. On the way to Zozo, near Three Rivers. Very nice little house once. My great Uncle Art used to live there.
I may be the only one, but I sort of like the effect.
I have changed my personal exploring ethics code. From now on it will be: "Take only aimed shots, leave only hobo corpses." Copper scrappers, meth heads and homeless beware. The Jonsered cometh among you, bringing fear and dread.
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Lucas Seidenfaden
Location: St. Joseph, MI <---> Frankfurt, Germany
Gender: Male
| | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 17 on 1/8/2007 11:46 PM >
| | | | I really like this photo. Regardless of what the others say. I am also a fan of HDR. I dont think people should be putting it down like that. Its just a technique. Some people like it. Some people dont. Thats how it is with everything.
I think it still looks pretty realistic. Very desert like. Maybe it would also look nice in black and white.
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shelka04
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 18 on 1/9/2007 6:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by Jonsered
Shelka, I recognize that place. On the way to Zozo, near Three Rivers. Very nice little house once. My great Uncle Art used to live there.
I may be the only one, but I sort of like the effect.
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YOU GOT IT, I bet he also went to school just down the road a 1/4 mile. Speaking of which that place, as well as the farm next to your uncles, and the farm next to that are for sale and looking empty
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dlong
| | Re: My first HDR image, please look
<Reply # 19 on 1/11/2007 2:16 AM >
| | | | hdr is beautiful. what if someone would have told bill gates to stop at the 486.there is a place for hdr, just there is a place for conventional photography.
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