first try at HDR, what ya think? UPDATED 11-11

http://www.sonikempire.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10026/bridgeHDR.jpg

second one is meh

http://www.sonikempire.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10026/bridgenightHDR.jpg

and last one

http://www.sonikempire.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10026/carHDRsmall.jpg

last one is schweet

excuse my ignorance, but what is HDR? i dont see anything in the pictures that look different?

HDR is made up of more than one pic…here’s one of the 3 I used for that one…

http://www.sonikempire.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10026/normal_DSCF6109.JPG

I was going more for the realistic look, rather than the cartoonish look

High Dynamic Range
It’s a way of getting a look in photos that would otherwise be impossible just taking a single picture.

Skurge what did you use to do those? Photoshop? Photomatix?

photomatix, I have CS2 but haven’t tried it in there yet, these were my first 3 HDR’s

^^still good, i liked the off road pic with the mud on the car. nice to see someone use the car for what it was designed for

haha if you only knew :wink:

i like the first one. doesn’t seem too bad.

I need to start messing with these too.

Looks good, but your tripod must be broken, the picture is all crooked.

I still dont understand… how are those pics otherwise unobtainable?

in laymans (sp.) terms:

Basically the way a lens is designed, it’s almost impossible for an individual picture to capture all the details of an image. You lose detail in the blackest sections of a picture when trying to gain detail in the most washed out areas. Furthermore when trying to gain detail in the darkest areas of an image you lose detail in the brightest areas. by taking 3 or more pictures with different settings, you can merge them all together and have one picture that attempts to capture all the details and all the colors in not only the darkest areas of an image, but also the brightest

this was one of my first HDR pics:

my tripod was actually on my back for this pic, I set the camera on a rock and liked the angle :slight_smile:

looks good chris :tup:

needs a little more contrast but not bad. Just play around with it a little more. I have a few from Vermont that I took this past weekend.

when i upped the contrast more, everything had a red tint to it, this was about as high as i could get it

how much difference in shutter speed should I be using for this? should they all be fairly close, or spread out more?

wtf i did that picture, what is with you and micah taking credit for all my shit :stuck_out_tongue:

was your cam though!

wow yea i was confused, i as almost positive that was chino’s car lol