MazdaJeff

My so so attempt at HDR. What do you think?

dozer

iTrader: (3)

not bad, nice 8

epmacman

i think the bike shows the affects a lot more than the 8 and looks awesome.

NACer4lyf

iTrader: (1)

nice shots...and thumbs up on the bike bro very sharp lookin

Atilla

iTrader: (1)

Not bad - iono why but towards the rear of the 8 it looks a lil' blurry. Iono how to put it into technical terms

The pic's came out far better than anything i have ever taken - so yeah, Big thumbs up IMO

MazdaJeff

Thanks guys. Here is a darker one. Although it is a bit grainy.

Zerotide

iTrader: (1)

Psst... torrent... photomatix... do it now. Get rid of that watermark.



You didn't hear this from me.

MazdaJeff

^^^ LOL

Done!!

Razz1

VR super sharp.

Best color!

mscamp02

iTrader: (3)

you can def tell on the bike a whole lot more but the first pic of your car still looks good

\\Konig\\

iTrader: (4)

hmm somethings obviously wrong lol

are you making the HDR pics from a single RAW photo or using 3 jpegs at different exposures?

mscamp02

iTrader: (3)

^
Is that how you do HDR pics? 3 different jpegs

\\Konig\\

iTrader: (4)

yep! thats how i do them.

Zerotide

iTrader: (1)

Konig what do you normally adjust the exposure at? If its not too bright I usually do -2.0, 0.0, and +2.0.

\\Konig\\

iTrader: (4)

yeah thats what i normally do too for most situations and it seems to work good

i use photomatix and then finish editing in photoshop. if you take it straight out of photomatix it still needs quite a bit of editing to make it look right.

Zerotide

iTrader: (1)

Yeah thats for sure... thing is just getting it right in Photoshop... I haven't really made a good one yet... mine usually come out looking weird... example:

\\Konig\\

iTrader: (4)

try not setting the "light smoothing" option to anything below medium, keep it either on very high, high, or medium and you should be okay. and if you start seeing shadowy dark areas then maybe just turn down the "strength" slider a bit.

lemme know if it helps

\\Konig\\

iTrader: (4)

i hope you dont mind me editing the pic you posted, but i opened it up in photoshop and all i did was adjust the curves (use the black dropper to select the blackest part of the picture, and the white dropper to select whats supposed to be white) and then i slightly adjusted the levels and thats it.

it doesnt look so bad actually, so really your on the right track you just gotta edit them in photoshop a bit more to finish them up, and maybe set the light smoothing option to high next time to make it look more natural.

Zerotide

iTrader: (1)

Hey that looks really good... the colors look more natural. Thanks for the tips. I was gonna try again once the weather clears up here... been stormy the last few days.

t.c.

Quick question about HDR... Do you have to use an SLR camera to take the pictures with which you use to make an HDR image?

Zerotide

iTrader: (1)

I believe some point and shoots have a exposure adjustment option... but I took mine with a dslr.

TopGear8

iTrader: (3)

Those Volk GTF's look very nice man

\\Konig\\

iTrader: (4)

no you dont need a slr camera.

you can use any camera as long as it has the ability to change exposures or has AEB (auto exposure bracketing is what it stands for i believe)

that and you need to download or buy photomatix and photoshop

Zerotide

iTrader: (1)

What is aeb? Is there a way to set the camera up to take the three pictures at different exposures without having to twist the exposure **** after every pic? I think that is the reason some of my HDR's are blurry is because I mess with the **** in between each picture.

dondo

iTrader: (7)

nice. i like the hdr pics a lot. need to see some more up here though so i can get some new desktop backgrounds.