Thread: Pictures ! Anything goes, it is the camera corner after all !!

Originally Posted by 300+

Thanks Ace. It is photomatix for the HDR and photoshop CS5 for the layering, editing & masking.

Cheers, Steve

Thanks, i had photoshop CS5 but the old computer I had crashed and I lost the copy someone gave me. Gotta get another copy of it, I can only scratch the surface when it comes to what that software can do.

Matt

Originally Posted by stooge

I only use -1, 0, +1 in most cases. Ill need to experiment next time with different exposure settings.

If you shoot RAW you can easily swing the exposure my +/-1 without the need to HDR, so in that case you are likely to be getting the effect from the software more than creating an image that your sensor couldn't capture.

It may take a while, but I think that if you are aiming for a natural looking photo you can use adjustment brushes in ACR/lightroom to recover the same level of detail from a single image than you would from a -1,0,+1 HDR for a majority of scenes.

And for those scenes that you can't, you would really need a -2,0,+2 HDR anyway.

I have also found that adding the missing stops there to take a 5 exposure HDR doesn't seem to help. It certainly make manually burning through more complex than it needs to be.

Cheers, Steve

I agree with you Steve, I do not like HDR and prefer you use Point adjustments in Capture NX2 in the nef file of Nik Viveza in the Tiff.

HDR cannot be successfully done with one image. Theres just not enough information on one image as far as dynamic range is concerned. Under exposed areas will turn very noisy as lighting these up only artificially amplifies the litlle potons captured in the photosites. Thats why you need the over exposed ones, to ensure these are captured.

So I believe you still need at least 2 shots, a normal exposure and at least an over exposure.

emphasis on you have taken

ill start...







anything will do, scenery, cars, dog, cat, wife, ute's etc...

are they our monaro's in the second and third shots

probably more in the USA than AUS

Originally Posted by weeds

are they our monaro's in the second and third shots

probably more in the USA than AUS

honestly im not sure what they are called there, but its a pontiac GTO here with a Chevy LS engine (our corvette engine) and a couple of them are highly modified to be very fast.

i have several friends that have them and its always a riveraly at the race track...