HDR

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Please show your HDR images , share your method here , please!

An awesome collection on Flickr as initial stuff.

-halli- · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 3:40 am Post subject:

Here's a few of my recent attempts. Not MF lens, canon 400D 18-55 kit lens (as I don't have anything wider than 28mm in MF)

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Very nice ! Which software do you use ?

-halli- · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:15 am Post subject:

ylyad · Expire: 2013-12-05

halli, I like your shots! Because they look natural. I am no fan of HDR as visible on Attila's first posts but I'm interested in the technique as a workaround to digital's limited dynamic - more ExtendedDR as HDR. But the softwares I tried did not satisfy me, I'll try the one you're mentioning.

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

http://forum.mflenses.com/szechenyi-bath-budapest-hdr-t35715,highlight,%2Bhdr+%2Bbudapest.html

http://forum.mflenses.com/hungarian-parlamient-hdr-t35667,highlight,%2Bparlamient.html

Dynamic Photo HDR 4.0 or Photomatix

ylyad · Expire: 2013-12-05

I realize that there was a misspelling in my post. I don't like the HDR in Attila's first post of this topic (the group on flickr). The one of the Budapest Szechenyi bath is great!

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

I did understand well you didn't like included Flickr samples, I am in opposite position I love un-real pictures what done with HDR. They looks to me like a paint and don't need to have same great talent than I a painter have.

-halli- · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 5:19 pm Post subject:

Kathmandu · Expire: 2012-04-08

Here's one I did with 2 images on Photoshop CS5. I tweaked the "details", "saturation" and "offset"-to what appealed to me. I took this with a Minolta Maxxum Reflex AF 500mm f8 (mirror) lens. Any C & C is welcome.

leo_b · Joined: 16 Feb 2011 Posts: 53 Location: Germany

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

Wow Leo! All are superb! I like them very much!

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7584 Location: Hong Kong

My first attempt on HDR (Lighroom + Photomatix).

Kathmandu · Expire: 2012-04-08

Great super images and effects Leo!

"calvin83" thats a very detailed wonderful picture . I would be curious to see how it would look in HDR if you cropped the front rocky beach away.

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7584 Location: Hong Kong

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

The essence of painting is in reducing the quantity of details to an arbitrary and selective level. The painter selects what to show in full detail, what to only suggest, and what to completely omit.
What HDR does is to level out shadows and highlights, creating a more compressed dynamic range that may be similar to the dynamic range of a painting, in that in paintings you find rarely pure black and pure white.
But, with HDR all details of reality remain there, and actually, you see even more of them than in a normal photography,
because with HDR every detail that is in the highlights and in the shadows becomes visible, while a normal photograph would hide some.
So in my opinion HDR does not look like a painting, it looks like a hyper-real photograph where everything falls in the realm of the visible and nothing is hidden.
There are better ways than HDR to make a photograph look like the work of a painter, here's just a quick 5-minutes example, using only Photoshop filters (no expensive plugins, no hand painting):

muddus · Joined: 27 May 2011 Posts: 233 Location: Suomi

Photomatix is also a good realistic HDR images creation. This three-exposure serie.