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impaler
Gender: Male
| | | | My photo experiments < on 6/30/2009 4:11 PM >
| | | I took some pics at the last UER meet. There are two shots in particular that i was trying to fix contrast on, and here are the results of different methods. This image is a 9-shot HDR with no other effects:
For this image, I tried using HDR to get the contrast to equal out a bit between the dark bridge and bright tree line, but if bridge details became visible, the tree line would disappear. So instead I took one low and one high exposure pic, layered them in photoshop and cut out all bridge details from the dark one:
Then I did both images in HDR with Tone-Mapping, everything really exaggerated:
Tone mapping was actually able to brighten up the bridge without killing the trees, but in the expense of a "fake" look.
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liveforthelaunch
| | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 1 on 6/30/2009 4:30 PM >
| | | I like the pictures, but I have to say, I prefer the first picture without the tone mapping stuff. It works well with the second picture, but yah, you definitely don't need it on the first one! Good shots. [last edit 6/30/2009 4:30 PM by liveforthelaunch - edited 1 times]
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trent I'm Trent! Get Bent!
Location: Drainwhale hunting Gender: Male
Not on UER anymore.
| | | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 2 on 6/30/2009 7:15 PM >
| | | Starting with a range of 9 shots is good to run through HDR....but in those examples the saturation and color seems to be way high. Probably something in the tone mapping settings? Try the defaults and then carefully adjust from there. Also, instead of HDR, maybe try adjusting the shadows & highlights.
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Ram23
Location: Cincinnati, OH and/or Queens, NY Gender: Male
| | | | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 3 on 6/30/2009 7:27 PM >
| | | The first one you lost contrast and saturation... I'm not sure what settings you used during the HDR, but tweak them some more. A bit more saturation, screw the light smoothing, and turn the gamma way down. My advice for the last two shots: destroy them before anyone else on this forum sees them.
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male
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| | | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 4 on 7/1/2009 9:35 AM >
| | | The last one suffers from glowing edges, especially around the rightmost pillar.
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krush
Location: Behind you Gender: Male
| | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 5 on 7/1/2009 11:42 AM >
| | | The last one just sucks and shows you did HDR. The first one is good as is. I prefer your third shot. The point is to enhance your image w/HDR, not blow it out of proportion or make it look like HDR. Just keep playing.
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Todd D.
Location: Maryland Gender: Male
| | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 6 on 7/3/2009 9:31 PM >
| | | Posted by krush The last one just sucks and shows you did HDR. The first one is good as is. I prefer your third shot. The point is to enhance your image w/HDR, not blow it out of proportion or make it look like HDR. Just keep playing.
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nah dude the third one is to dull, it almost looks foggy. I just personally dislike HDR photos, but if you can get one with out that halo effect around the edges then I can enjoy them a bit better.
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Glass
Location: Chicago
as one does
| | | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 7 on 7/4/2009 5:59 PM >
| | | I'm pretty sure I could accomplish that first image with ONE good exposure and a little fill light added in Lightroom. HDR is in theory better (more data is better, right?), but like a lot of technology aimed at photography, it is a filter of a filter that almost always is worse than a normal photo.
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impaler
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: My photo experiments <Reply # 8 on 7/4/2009 7:26 PM >
| | | Well, I'm new with the whole photo editing thing, so you might be right. But I tried going the one exposure way, but the lack of light in regular exposure shots, when manipulated, gave really noisy and crappy results for dark areas. Hence why the second pic I actually cut the dark parts of long exposure shots and slapped it onto the short exposure one. Also keep in mind that all of this is done with a P&S, so the starting quality might not be as good as you expect.
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