Matt's HDRs.

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Originally Posted by Xavie

It's a pic of a Defender. How much more artisitic can one get?

I really like HDR. Been playing with it for several months and if I had known abou it before I bought my D40x I wouldn't of bought a D40x. For me I just find it to difficult to change the settings as it needs to be done whilst the camera is staying absolutely still on the tripod and all of that sort of business. I look really forward to getting a camera where you just tell it to do it!

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There is a https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ button behind the on/off/shutter. Press and hold and turn the command dial at the rear to the left or right to set the EV.

Even if you can't actually take a bracketed sequence, you can quickly change the setting without looking after a little practice or without moving the camera on the tripod.

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Originally Posted by dm_td5

There is a http://a.img-dpreview.com/reviews/ni...ns/expcomp.gif button behind the on/off/shutter. Press and hold and turn the command dial at the rear to the left or right to set the EV.

Even if you can't actually take a bracketed sequence, you can quickly change the setting without looking after a little practice or without moving the camera on the tripod.

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I'm certain you can do auto exposure bracketing. My S5 does it, so surely Canon would have extended that mode to their range of DSLRs (inc. the 40D)

D40x is a Nikon

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Originally Posted by dullbird

D40x is a Nikon

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I was thinking 40D instead of D40, whoops, my bad, ignore that:D:cool:

With the Nikon's....

D40/D60 doesn't have a bracketing button.

D80/D90 only does 3 exposures, D300 and above up to 9 exposures.

Here are some more.... all 3 exposures.... again click the pic for a larger version.

Had some of them printed today, the first one and the bike look awesome in large format !!!

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/01/1531.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/01/1532.jpg

and another version of the above, looks like a painting...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/01/1533.jpg

Can u see the ghost !!
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...09/01/1534.jpg

Matt, what Tone maps and settings did you use for some of those?
Which Tonemaps do you find most successful?

So far I've found Fattal gives the most interesting results. No noise reduction gives surreal effects and full noise reduction gives fairly realistic results.

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Originally Posted by vnx205

Matt, what Tone maps and settings did you use for some of those?
Which Tonemaps do you find most successful?

So far I've found Fattal gives the most interesting results. No noise reduction gives surreal effects and full noise reduction gives fairly realistic results.

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Using Photomatix, no specific settings though as every photo is different and if there is noise that i don't like i put it though noise ninja!

I remembered from back on about Page 1 that you were using Photomatix.

As I have mentioned I was using Qtpfsgui, but I thought some of the algorithms or Tonemaps might be common.

Qtpfsgui offers Mantiuk, Fattal, Drago, Durand, a few versions of Reinhard and a couple of others. They seem to have different controls and give different results. I think they are named after the people who developed the algorithm. Does Photomatix use any of these?

I had expected that different photos would need different setting and even different Tonemaps to get best results, but I was hoping that if our programs had some things in common, it might give me some ideas.

Maybe they don't have enough in common to make it worthwhile, but I just thought I would ask.

Had to have a look at the program you are using to see what you meant, Photomatix looks a lot different, this is a example of what the tone maping etc looks like... https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Give it a go, download a free trial copy here... HDR photo software & plugin - Tone Mapping, Exposure Blending & HDR Imaging for photography

Good tutorial on how to use it here... YouTube - Photomatix and Photoshop Tutorial - Creating HDR images

Matt.