[quote=“Skurge,post:18,topic:38151"”]
how much difference in shutter speed should I be using for this? should they all be fairly close, or spread out more?
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you have to expose for the different lights and darks in the picture. First pick your Aperature. If you are doing a landscape, use a higher Ap (11 or so). Set it to that and use Spot metering and see what the settings should be for the brightest shot and for the darkest shot, then take something in the middle for the middle shot.
meh…
HDR takes some time to get right. I recently had a couple local photographers do a shoot for a project I am working on.
See Photosets Here:
http://flickr.com/photos/deeva/sets/72157601290441674/
http://flickr.com/photos/flyingdutchee/sets/72157601671613282/
One of my favs:
http://flickr.com/photos/flyingdutchee/1241820580/in/set-72157601671613282/
[quote=“BluBalls,post:21,topic:38151"”]
you have to expose for the different lights and darks in the picture. First pick your Aperature. If you are doing a landscape, use a higher Ap (11 or so). Set it to that and use Spot metering and see what the settings should be for the brightest shot and for the darkest shot, then take something in the middle for the middle shot.
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unfortunatley my camera doesn’t have that much adjustment, cant get to 11 for the ap…I can adjust it, just not that far
shooting with a 5mp fuji S5000
and i dont think I can spot meter either…but who knows, its just a hobby for me lol
then, with scenic shots, use the highest aperature you can. Use your best judgement to expose for the darks and the brights with that AP.
where was the pic of your car taken?
word, HDR is not easy by any means.
Furthermore though, there are two different types… one is when you make the image much more cartoony, the other is more subtle ( and difficult to acheive. )
i like the one of the trinity church 
[quote=“dozr,post:22,topic:38151"”]
meh…
HDR takes some time to get right. I recently had a couple local photographers do a shoot for a project I am working on.
See Photosets Here:
http://flickr.com/photos/deeva/sets/72157601290441674/
http://flickr.com/photos/flyingdutchee/sets/72157601671613282/
One of my favs:
http://flickr.com/photos/flyingdutchee/1241820580/in/set-72157601671613282/
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they are interesting but too blown out of wack for me. I like when you just pickup a nice lighting balance throughout the photo in less than stellar lighting circumstances like sunrise/sunsets
the shot of my car is in tonawanda, right by the river… :snky:
off niagara st, if you really want to see it i’ll take ya there, really cant have too many ppl back there though, dunno if anyone would show up and complain…its not really that big, I just run through there every so often and pick up some mud…gotta have the WTF look from people when I pull up next to them 
honestly? not so good. and chino’s car shouldn’t be overexposed up front if you’re doing HDR, weaksauce. I liked the contrasty look of that shot but you could do that all in-camera.
[quote=“dmoffitt,post:30,topic:38151"”]
honestly? not so good. and chino’s car shouldn’t be overexposed up front if you’re doing HDR, weaksauce. I liked the contrasty look of that shot but you could do that all in-camera.
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I didn’t take the pic of chino’s car…
point is my camera cant take pics like that “in-camera”
[quote=“dmoffitt,post:30,topic:38151"”]
honestly? not so good. and chino’s car shouldn’t be overexposed up front if you’re doing HDR, weaksauce. I liked the contrasty look of that shot but you could do that all in-camera.
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it was a difficult shot, it was super bright outside and that was taken in the loading bay at work. We had the garage door closed almost the entire way to get minimal light but it was very difficult to get a low exposure on that shot.
also that was done in photoshop cs3 which is a bit harder to get results than photomatix, we didn’t have photomatix at the time. CS3 takes a lot more work to get results, but if you know what you’re doing you can get better results than photomatix, IMO
I think CS3 makes more realistic HDRs… do you have the orig photos of your STI used to make the HDR? I’d like to give it a try.
Looks good Chris. The more you make the better they will come out. It just takes practice.
http://flickr.com/photos/flyingdutchee/1241820580/in/set-72157601671613282/
^That looks great.
[quote=“BluBalls,post:33,topic:38151"”]
I think CS3 makes more realistic HDRs… do you have the orig photos of your STI used to make the HDR? I’d like to give it a try.
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sure - whats your email?
i’m telling you something about the originals on that one make it really hard to get it right, it loses a lot of detail for some reason…
personally i think the first pic is great, just how i wanted it to come out, bright colors and you can see everything…
couldn’t get a shot close to that with just one pic on my camera
Jim, this is just a quick version… I only used 3 of the files, most were too bright. I used file 168,169,171.
[quote=“BluBalls,post:37,topic:38151"”]
Jim, this is just a quick version… I only used 3 of the files, most were too bright. I used file 168,169,171.
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yea… it was very tough to do an HDR with the photos, the front of the car was just light like a mofo in all pictures even the low exposure one. Not bad - I was able to get one sort of like that but I didn’t like how the cars paint looked like a marble countertop 
edit: the garage looks really cool - just the car looks whacked which is the problem I was running into
White isn’t easy to expose for… I would have gotten a few more dark exposures. The cars paint could be fixed with CS3 just by bluring and noise filter.
oh, and if you want the real look…
Oh, and I just realized why it is so hard to merge these… you have to take it off of Shutter Priority and move it to Man. Pick the Aperature you want (5.6 would have been okay), then just adjust the shutter for each shot.