Post Your Best HDR Photo

[Fink_Studios]

This was shot durring Thanksgiving of 2008 in Great Falls Virginia/Maryland


1D MarkIII, 24-105mm, Flashpoint Tripod, (at 45mm, 1/6sec, @ f13, @jpg 6)


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[District_History_Fan]

Here's one of mine... It was done with Dynamic Photo HDR.


large version http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3100/2455908074_8b45b820a3_o.jpg

[TheRoff]

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[Sean Setters]

Ok, seeing all these really nice HDR images has made me want to try it myself. Being a portrait photographer (who's constrained by subject movement and the 50D's 3 shot AEB), it's been rather challenging. However, I was doing a shot of my grandmother painting the other day using strobes, but I pulled the strobes and shot a couple of AEB shots of her to try an HDR image. This was the result:


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Not fantastic, but I tried not to go too over-the-top with it. I'll probably try some shots buildings once it starts warming up and using more images (by manually adjusting the exposure compensation).

[Alan]

TheRoff, you should not allow certain tonal adjustments to occur. It is recommended that you only do noise reduction, chromatic abberations and white balance. If your image is off on exposure, you can correct all three the same amount. Color temp is okay, too.


You could skip the noise reduction, and use an aftermarket program later on in the final HDR correction, in Photoshop, for example, or Noise Ninja, etc.


Things like brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpening, and a few others are not recommended.


These are further done in the Photomatix program, then polished up further in Photoshop.


At least, that's what the experts recommend.

[maloner]

OK, here's one I did just last week.

[Mike Ancient]

I don't know if this is the absolute best, but it is a personal favorite:


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[Mike Ancient]

Ok... that didn't work out too well... I'll try the other one:


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2658907519_254a236be3_b.jpg

[Sean Setters]

I tried shooting another HDR the other night. Here's how it came out:


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[Oren]

Really great!