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Published: 2006-05-30 02:00:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 3105; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 51
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How do you like my crappy attempt at HDR (without any fancy HDR program) Two exposures, 2 stops differentRelated content
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You did this with 2 shots only?!
You, sir, are a genius. Wow.
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Yeah, just two. Thanks for the compliment, but I feel i could have done this better.
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How did you do this then, if not with a "fancy HDR program"?
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Just with photoshop. I blended two exposures together. I have a sort of tutorial on it here: [link]
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Thanks for explaining, I think I am going to try that... as soon as I understand photoshop 
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Photoshop isn't too hard to learn just by playing around with it. I started with Corel Photopaint 8.0. I got photoshop 7.0 from a class in highschool. It took me about 2 weeks to apply what I knew in corel to adobe. What i'm saying is that once you understand the concepts of what you can do with images, you can use any program.
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Then maybe I am going to dowload something like a test version, because I got along with GIMP very well (what some people call photoshop's retarted brother^^).
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Okay, so this is not the emot I wanted. Don't be offended. I am amazed
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you mess up with photoshop cos theres a strange things between trees and sky. Things done in photoshop musn't be seen! it's the 1 rule in doing photography in phsp
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The thing is, when I made this, I did it in 2 minutes and didn't expect anyone to look at it. There are some better ones in my gallery
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it could be a beautiful image, but that part of the sky over the trees is too bright... more attention for these details...
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It was either make the area over the trees too bright, or the trees just below the sky too dark. It's hard to get a good mask to make a natural looking blend between tree branches
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if you work in photoshop, try to put the darkest image to background layer, and the lighter images to put over this layer and manipulate in this way the image... i think it will be better (sorry for my terrible english)
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I don't remember which layer at had on top and which one as the background, but I don't imagine it would make a difference, in theory anyway
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I would love to die there, it is just so peaceful!
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I love this shot. Everything just looks so surreal. And everything just came out great. I've just gotten into hdr and was wondering how you tweaked it in photoshop, because i can do the merge, then convert it to 8-bit while messing with the curves, but my shots never come close to this.
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I had to independently tweak each shot to make it pop.. using a curves adjustment layer. The secret to a good HDR is in the initial exposure.. experiment to find what the right exposure latitude is for the shot. A good guess it's +/- 1.33 stops.
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lovley mate im just in the process of expermenting with hdr and this looks like i have somehting to aspire to
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I just did a few more recently which I'll be posting soon. I'm more proud of these than I am of this Lake photo.
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ive been trying some but they all just look like standard shots that i could have done in one is there any kind of technique to it or am i just being stupid again?
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The only advice I have is use a tripod and take as many different shots as you can (widest exposure range). When you'r blending them together in photoshop, it's more difficult to get jagged horizons, So i prefer landscapes without trees.
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ive been going for about 4 steps either way using the shutter speed is this to little then ?
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It depends which kind of steps you mean. It depends on the step unit you're talking about. The common unit is the F-stop, or just "stop" if it's applied to things other than F-number. One stop means double or half the previous increment. If you're are 1/3rd stops (from 1/60 to 1/80 to 1/100 to 1/125 to 1/160) then 4 of those increments is probably not enough. Four whole stops (1/60 to 1/125 to 1/250 to 1/500 to 1/1000) might be a little excessive. It think for this shot I used +/- 1 stop (three 1/3rd stop increments in each direction, for a total of six increments)
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ok i see where ive been going wrong ive only been combining 2/3 shots at rather small incrments maybe 1/3 stops which would explain why they sttill look rather plain and ordaniry i shal arm myself with this new information and go forth
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Incredible shot! Looks like a painting. I need to do your tutorial asap! I'd love to have shots like this!
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It's taking more that one shot of varying exposure and combining them later, on the computer. I have a tutorial about it here [link]
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ahhh ok. thank you for the tutorial link of yours!
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What is 'HDR'?
It looks as though you have merged to of the same image into one. I can see some funky effect above the tree line where the color of the clouds from one image don't quite match the other.
Neet shot though.
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It stands for "High Dynamic Range"... essentially it's combining different shots with different exposure levels to increase the amount of detail in different areas of the shot
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I might try that sometime, though I would have to go full manual with a remote & tripod.
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Most people use exposure braketing, where the camera shifts the exposure up and down by a fixed amount... and with the fast burst rate that these digital SLRs have, you can almost hand hold 3 consecutive shots of the same thing while you're bracketing.
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gorgeous scene Dan. thanx for the photos u sent me
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looks cool
and when i look at it the clouds seem to move a bit, winder if thats just my eyes?
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