First day of HDR photography...

**HeartAttack** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 05:13 PM

...went pretty well! Check 'em out! If you don't know what HDR Photography is, then check out THIS link. Short and simple, it's a method of photography in which you take 3 or more shots of the same scene using different exposures. You then take them and put them together using a tone mapping program. This effectively allows you to see details in the shadows, midtones, and highlights of an image.

Leslie took these, and I took them into Photoshop, created multiple exposures, and then tone mapped them in Photomatix:

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EDIT: Day two and three of HDR photography:

Tree 1 with the exposures aligned and re-mapped:

My bro...3 exposures taken and merged to HDR, tone mapped, then taken into Photoshop for further processing:

My wife took this pic at work. I then took it into Photoshop and created separate exposures for importing into Photomatix:

**Ristaron** · 01-23-2008, 03:52 PM

For Fuck's Sakes... I put so much effort into my last post in this thread, and here it's been wiped out.

Grr...

well. Here we go.

I really like some of them, as they have a sort of "surreal" feel to them. I especially like the last one, as the detail is amazing.

There, condensed form of my brilliance. Doesn't seem to brilliant now, though. -_-

**HeartAttack** · 01-23-2008, 03:55 PM

Its all good, Rist, I saw you response.

I don't remember what I said...but it went something along the lines of:

"Thanks. HDR can make for either surreal, or very enhanced-looking photos, depending on what you want to do. The point of HDR is to open up all of the details in the shadows, mid tones, and highlights of an image."

So there. HA!

**Ristaron** · 01-23-2008, 04:12 PM

Well, I seem to have been shown. >_>

**SeaStone** · 01-23-2008, 08:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ristaron

There, condensed form of my brilliance. Doesn't seem to brilliant now, though. -_-

What's not "to" brilliant?

**HeartAttack** · 01-23-2008, 09:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeaStone

What's not "to" brilliant?

Burn! ha ha...

anywho....thread updated!

**SeaStone** · 01-23-2008, 09:22 PM

I like the Garfield one and the last one, very cool.

eLracho · 01-23-2008, 09:42 PM

My eeeeyes... My eeeyyyeesss... Seriously, it hurts my eyes to look at some of them, but a lot of them are pretty cool.

butterfingered · 02-04-2008, 07:34 AM

Very nice!

There is a lot going on in some of these which can make them a bit difficult to look at... BUT... it also makes them interesting. =)

I really like the shadows of the bike and the trees.

Also not sure what it is...... but those hangy ball things... some sort of plant? haha. I dunno. But whatever it's a picture of, it's beautiful!