Post Your Best HDR Photo

[Alan]

Let's try that again. I blew the image size. Sorry!


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[John]

Alan, this is a really beautiful image. very well done. If its HDR, its very natural looking as well.

[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).

[Sean Setters]

Electrolyte-


Thank you for the kind words regarding the photo of my grandmother...I'm trying to take as many of her as I can so that I capture her exactly how I want to remember her. ;-)

[Alan]

(Bryan, if you will, delete that first picture from the post. Thanks.) Bryan, never mind, Jeff informed me on how to edit my posts. I should pay more attention.





Thanks, Jeff.





Alan

[Alex Bishton]

Alan, thanks for the advice.
I'll give it a go with your method.
Still trying to find something more interesting than a pond to take pictures of.

[Jeff]

Bryan, if you will, delete that first picture from the post. Thanks.





Alan
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Alan, you can click on the "More" button and then select edit, and remove the photo without Bryan's help

[Alex Bishton]

I've just been for a walk and I think I've almost got my technique sorted out.

[Alan]

John, yes, this is an HDR. I did it with Photomatix, using the "tone" process (the "details" gave too much color noise, which I find to be the case with night shots, in many examples I've tried).


I used auto exposure bracketing (0, -1, -2 EV), then did the blending to an HDR. Tone mapped it, then brought it into CS4, sharpened it with the USM, then a slight curves adjustment.


Sometimes, using the tone adjustment with Photomatix can saturate the colors a bit too much, and I'll have to back it down some. I could do the adjustment in Photomatix, but I usually don't, and bring the image into Photoshop to touch it up.





Alan

[District_History_Fan]

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


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