Post Your Best HDR Photo

[greggf]

I really like William...which process did you use for this one?? And to get the grass fronds in the front NOT moving gives it a really nice touch!! Great shot....btw, I

[William]

Thanks Gregg. The fronds were easy because they were dry and there was no wind. Lucky. But I took another shot in this series and it had ducks in it. They must have been expecting bread and all came swimming over while I took my exposures. In PP I just blended the exposures normally but to account for the movement I dropped the center exposure onto photomatix and did as single exposure HDR with the same settings as the three exposure image. Then I masked these ducks over the blurred ones. Worked well so I

[aZhu]

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Subject matter on the above photo isn't the most interesting but I thought I'd share a campsite I stayed at when I was at Arizona. The sunrise was beautiful!


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Here we have Sand Dollar Beach in Big Sur, CA. I believe this HDR consisted of about three 30 second exposures.





-Andy

[Fast Glass]

Great shots everyone!


Hey Gregg,can you postthe link to your 35mm duel the the death[] comparisonon Picasa? I lost my MD 35mm f/2.8 (Great lens BTW) and have a 35mm sized hole in my lineup[:P] Although I do have the FD 35mm f/2.0 S.S.C which is not converted yet but I can holdit to the mount and use a very high shutter speed,it'snot very sharpwide open at close distances. I know it's not 100% accurate but I have done thatto my other lens and it's veryclose.I got the lens for free so I don't have a big insentive toconvert it.


Eventually I want to get a FF bodybut that willbequite a while from now, but I don't mind because myFF primeswork great on 1.6.


John.

[freelanceshots]

Nice images!

[William]

Nice sunset aZhu, that

[Fast Glass]

Here is my first serious attemt at HDR. I used DxO's single shot HDR feature, actually works quite well. But the noise can get out of hand in a hurry!


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MD 24mm, f/8, ISO 800, 80th sec, highlightpriority,tripod.


The highlight priority featureworked great for thissingle shot HDR, trying to expose without it was a huge challenge.


Some more in the works.[]


Cheers,


John.

[William]

Some more:

[Fast Glass]

All I can say is WOW! Those are superb! What software did you use to post proccess those?


Keep up the amazing work,


John.

[greggf]

William, those are some fantastic HDR's...great composition and colors. Not overdone(like I do sometimes..check out my Kauai thread down the line somewhere...)! Have you tried converting some to B&W at all yet....give it a try? You can get some really amazing results doing that. I might as well bring back some of my older HDR's, since this thread is getting really busy!!


Here are a couple from Italy last year...here goes...


Constantine's Arch next to the Colloseum...1D4,24-70L, 5 exposures..


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A "Sport Amphitheatre" in Ortigia, Sicily, Italy...1D4, Nikon 14-24G, 5 shot..


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Inside the Colloseum..I made it kinda grungy considering what went on inside...1D4, Nikon 14-24G, 5 shots..


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Night shot...24-70L, 5 shots..


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And my personal Fav...14-24G, 5 shots with semi-long exposures...


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