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Derek Ross
With a scene like that, I would say "hell, the sky will be blown" and then try to frame it minimize the sky. Either remove the sky entirely from the composition, or keep it close to the top of the frame.
ampguy
Veteran
yeah, it was an experiment, and while it does show a lot of shadow and highlight detail, it's not a pretty photograph to me. Perhaps I could have done it better or used different tools, but it's just not for me. I would like to try a few more times though and do the best I can with PSE so I know what it can do...
marnicq
Member
*thumbs up*One thing I'll nevah change though is my leftist/socialist political views. Of that you can be certain.
In comparison with other HDR images yours look surprisingly allright, if I wouldn't have known they were HDR I wouldn't have seen it, to be honest.
PKR
Veteran
Nick, et all;
I don't know if this qualifies as HDR, but in the "old days" of digital, like a couple of years back, it was common to shoot two frames of an image (w/tripod). One at the bottom of the range, and one at the top and merge them in PS. This was an early solution to the blow-out (low DR) on the right side of the histogram. Is the stuff you're producing done this way?
p.
I don't know if this qualifies as HDR, but in the "old days" of digital, like a couple of years back, it was common to shoot two frames of an image (w/tripod). One at the bottom of the range, and one at the top and merge them in PS. This was an early solution to the blow-out (low DR) on the right side of the histogram. Is the stuff you're producing done this way?
p.
ampguy
Veteran
Nick - if you undid the pink saturation of your beach one, it might be fine. For those deep blue skies, there is an easy grad. ND filter in Picasa that works well, and keeps sand and beach water looking normal.
DGA
Well-known
From film to HDR
From film to HDR
This topic reminds me of something I did a while ago.
Since a color negative film contains all the 'information' at a range of many stops, much more than any digital sensor, I had the idea of creating an 'HDR'
image from a single color neg frame.
The technique was to scan the same frame in different analog levels and merge them to an HDR image.
Then I realized that this is the same thing we used to do in color printing class, at photography school:
we exposed the highlights longer and the dark areas less.
This is the 'HDR' version of a negative frame.
From film to HDR
This topic reminds me of something I did a while ago.
Since a color negative film contains all the 'information' at a range of many stops, much more than any digital sensor, I had the idea of creating an 'HDR'
image from a single color neg frame.
The technique was to scan the same frame in different analog levels and merge them to an HDR image.
Then I realized that this is the same thing we used to do in color printing class, at photography school:
we exposed the highlights longer and the dark areas less.
This is the 'HDR' version of a negative frame.
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pawel glogowski
Member
If an image is oversaturated, very contrasty, looks like "photoshopped" or unreal, than it's a failed HDR.
It's a mistake when people say that photomatix tonemapped photos are true HDR images.
HDR is a way to increase image's dynamic range, not to make it look radioactive
It's a mistake when people say that photomatix tonemapped photos are true HDR images.
HDR is a way to increase image's dynamic range, not to make it look radioactive
lorriman
Established
One thing I'll nevah change though is my leftist/socialist political views. Of that you can be certain.
It's my belief that most people are actually conservatives; they just don't know it. Keeping in mind that thatherist corporitism is actually laissez-faire liberal economics and quite unconservative have a look at these for the real thing:
http://www.respublica.org.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
and most outrageously (a popes encyclical from 100 years ago):
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/l.../hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum_en.html
I can't imagine you are freethinking enough to read that but it would be interesting to see your opinion.
Conservatism and communism have nearly identical goals: the happy peasant, but with a nod to hierarchy and tradition (those accomodations learned over the ages).
However if you don't believe in free-will then socialism is fairly logical really. It is a command and control structure that emphasies the community over the individual (if the 'I' is just a delusion of a collection of brain cells then that's quite reaosnable). Liberalism is the opposite: emphasising personal rights over the community by confusing freewill with freedom.
True conservatism, which neither Republicans nor the UK's Torys have, is all about "a community of free individuals"; a sort of balance: living in harmony with and for each other
A typical socialist structure is the military, or a large corporation (socialism in microcosm): a nice irony. Thatcher has a lot to answer for. So does Bush. There is no one to vote for.
Sparrow
Veteran
fuzk
Established
Nick,
Yours doesn't look HDR to me. I think the problem with HDR is that people go overboard, and everything looks fake.
The examples from DGA and Sparrow are what I personally think is excellent use of HDR. They look like lovely and evenly exposed photos which doesn't look fake at all.
Best,
Jy
Yours doesn't look HDR to me. I think the problem with HDR is that people go overboard, and everything looks fake.
The examples from DGA and Sparrow are what I personally think is excellent use of HDR. They look like lovely and evenly exposed photos which doesn't look fake at all.
Best,
Jy
lorriman
Established
Marvellous pic, sparrow. So much atmosphere.
NickTrop
Veteran
@all - I did tone these down a lot. Originals look someone vomited up color.
@ Sparrow - how did you do the fake one? It looks great!
@Lorriman - I was a Rand reading to the right of Limbaugh "conservative" for a long time - not n' more, and not ever. They disgust me and are dragging this country down - big time. They're on the wrong side of every issue - Iraq, climate change, taxation, reproductive rights, economics - name it. It's actually what defines them (being on the wrong side of every issue). I'm talking about the "US" brand of "Glenn Beck" conservatism. I will give your links a read. I have some time today. Thanks...
@ Sparrow - how did you do the fake one? It looks great!
@Lorriman - I was a Rand reading to the right of Limbaugh "conservative" for a long time - not n' more, and not ever. They disgust me and are dragging this country down - big time. They're on the wrong side of every issue - Iraq, climate change, taxation, reproductive rights, economics - name it. It's actually what defines them (being on the wrong side of every issue). I'm talking about the "US" brand of "Glenn Beck" conservatism. I will give your links a read. I have some time today. Thanks...
Sparrow
Veteran
Thank you, it was one of those mornings, about 0600 and a beautiful Mediterranean sunrise couldn't go wrong really, I just over photoshoped it a bit to get that
dexdog
Veteran
Does this look like HDR?
Looks like the sky/clouds have been pasted in, so I would guess it was HDR
Sparrow
Veteran
I did it as a joke, warmed up the colours and put that blue cast in the sky, put a dramatic curve to tighten the ends of the histogram, then dodged and burned .. all I can see is the halos and poor colour, I actually printed it in monochrome.