HDR Thread

[Belgarion]

Everyone post your HDR images, as many as you like! Just get'em out there and let's see how good it can be. If you don't have any, take this as an opportunity to learn and show us your (good) results.

[Blunkka]

Nice ones Belgarion. The first one has a really surreal look.

Here's a couple I've taken.

[Belgarion]

no one else has any HDR shots?

[mjens]

old one... can't find latest hdr's :/

[e-freak]

ok, got me inspired and used a raw from my italy study-travell. Set the contrast in the raw to maximum, set up everything right and then spit out 5 jpegs at different light steps - i know it's kinda cheating not to take 5 single pics but it was impossible within all those tourists to have a save spot just 2 seconds. I then imported the 5 jpegs to photoshop and started with the darkest (Light -2.0) one as a base. Took the next brighter one (Light -1.0) and started cutting parts out with layer-masks. repeated with the three left over jpegs. Then overlayed with the second brightest and darkest and set to multiply and inverted multiply and masked unused parts out - this two layers only to help in very darkareas and very bright areas (like clouds or under the bridge). Now loaded an "convert to greyscale" layer into the pic and set different values for every colorgradient and changed the layer to "luminacy" at 50% oppacity. Was my first try at handcreating a HDR and it came out pretty nice imho. Then I finetuned the perspective and turning a little bit but that's not really much about hdr, is it?

Firenze Arno bridge:

[e-freak]

and another one:

[Belgarion]

Wow dude. That is.. a crazy workflow. Pretty nice results though. You should really see about getting photomatix.

These were done with a single RAW as well. It works pretty well as long as you get a good base exposure, maybe a bit brighter than normal.

[e-freak]

I did semi-automatic HDRs or DRIs with FDRTools before (which is free and can do the most things as well). But I really like the way I'm doing this in Photoshop. I tried to understand what makes a good hdr and thought of a way to do it. worked out kinda well and it's a lot of relexing during doing map-textures all day

Btw: Your pictures are awesome but how much work is included if you use Photomatix? (I've never worked with that tool to an extent and don't know too much about it´)

[mjens]

Belgarion:

you made the 1st forrest photo with photomatix? doh i allways had a lot of problems with that tool :/

[Belgarion]

Photomatix takes like 5 minutes max if you include toying with the settings. I like to save them as 16-bit tiffs afterward and then edit them a bit in Photoshop. I think I'd like to try your method at least once though. I think in some cases manually "processing" HDR photos works better.

I made this one a year or two ago. Not true HDR. I basically took two shots and cut out part of one shot to show the other image, but it's the same result i guess.

[mjens]

I used photomatix too but I haven't got effects like yours. Did you used tripod?

[Sa74n]

very impressive fotos there belgarion

[Belgarion]

thanks sa7an.

In all shots where I used multiple exposures, yes, I used a tripod. Except the last one. I didn't have it along with me so I set my cam down on a wall and shot from there. It's possible to get better-than-normal dynamic range using a single exposure if you shoot RAW. you'll probably end up with a lot more noise depending on the composition, but it does usually work pretty well.

Don't be afraid to post more HDR shots if you've got'em guys, this isn't "my" thread. I like what you've been posting and would love to see more.

[Algor]

That first one is stunning, Belgarion!

[mjens]

I have a question

If I have scene with 1/200 on f/8 on EV 0 how should I set EV's for 2 and 3 photo?