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PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:18 pm    Post subject: HDR on Landscapes Reply with quote

I was experimenting again with HDR ... just want to show some trials.

Especially with backlight situations and hard shadows it can help a lot. Still I haven't got the natural results that I want but maybe I am getting closer Very Happy

here 2 scenes where it would normally not be possible to get satisfying results:

1st test-subject:

- Panorama stiched from 6 20mm frames
- each frame is derived from 4 different exposures, so in total 24 exposures
- HDR, Stiching and software processing is done in 16bit mode.
- Flek 20/2.8 MC
- all 24 photographs are made without tripod
- aligning of the frames was done by the HDR tool





to get an ideawhat happended:
the left-up frame with the good exposure on the sky




2nd example of a standard situation of heavy backlight:
- HDR of 3 exposures






here to compare, the exposure on the sky




At the moment I am pretty interested in this subject and will for sure make more tests the coming days ...


Cheers
Tobias


PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

These are the situations where HDR helps a lot. Very tricky to combine HDR shots with panorama shots. How did you manage it that you got these results handhelded ?

When I shot HDR I always use a tripod. Never tried it without.
Great results.

Wink


PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
Very tricky to combine HDR shots with panorama shots. How did you manage it that you got these results handhelded


- I just used a higher ISO ... in order to avoid camera shake
- but more important: you need a good tool to align the images
PS doen't do the best job there Wink

concerning HDRvsStiching:
- the 16bit files get really large ... so patience is the biggest problem there Wink Wink

Cheers
Tobias


PostPosted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good HDR.
Tried HDR with panorama software HUGIN, but I didn't succeed.
Must have done something wrong.


PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

#1 is nice. A quick question, for your HDR purpose do you shoot in raw or jpeg?


PostPosted: Fri May 14, 2010 6:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
for your HDR purpose do you shoot in raw or jpeg


the workflow:
- I shoot single raw files
- then render 16bit tiff HDR files
- after I stich the single 16bit tiffs again to the final 16bit tiff (attention: large files [1 GB is normal])
- processing in PS also in 16bit mode

Cheers
TObias