Share some of your HDR's here

Basic Joined: May 26, 2009 Posts: 97 Location: Dubai

@wurmbug & le1perrain thanks.

usually, noise creeps in if you are trying to do HDR on something dark and your bracketed shot doesn't have full information (or details) of that "something", that is why its better to have 2EV or 3EV to get the shadows and the highlights information. But, you really cannot avoid noise unless you always go for 6 or 9 bracketed shot. A good noise removal plug in might help, like noise ninja. HTH.

I wanted to share this one, although it is not full HDR, it uses same principle... this is called DRI (dynamic range increase), this is also from 3 images. If i remember, 10 secs, 20 secs and 30 secs exposure; this is done through manual digital blending (NOT tone mapping):

http://michaelrcruz.com/?p=199

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 3:04 pm

Thanks Mikael for the quick reply. I do blending a lot but I didn't know that it's called DRI Laughing

I do it with 2 photos. The 1st slightly overexposed and the 2nd underexposed. Than I try to preserve the highlights from one and the shadows from the other. This is by playing with the blending modes and options in Photoshop.
I find that it gives more realistic results than HDR. And it can sometimes be done with 1 RAW file.

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 874 Location: Dubai

HDR Images from earlier this evening processed to give them a dream-like quality

Rookie Joined: Nov 29, 2009 Posts: 24

Made some adjustments from my first post because of blue color cast

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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:04 pm

My HDRI, don't really know what defines proper HDRI PPing though.

Promising Joined: Dec 07, 2008 Posts: 169

Basic Joined: May 19, 2010 Posts: 64

its 3 years old, so i dont remember much about the settings

Basic Joined: Jul 26, 2010 Posts: 118 Location: Abu Dhabi

What software can I use for this? Can someone point me to a website for instructions? I'm inspired! Awesome pictures.

Basic Joined: May 19, 2010 Posts: 64

u can do it in photoshop, thats what i use.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:39 pm

mkhouzam wrote:

What software can I use for this? Can someone point me to a website for instructions? I'm inspired! Awesome pictures.

Try photomatix. It's cheaper then photoshop Razz

if you don't already have it. You can get realistic results with it too, it's up to you.

Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 3:14 am

Well I made this last year it's titled "Edgy."

Professional Joined: Nov 26, 2009 Posts: 1603

Did not have a picture with +2 / 0 / -2, but had + 1 / - 1. tried my best to make it look a normal scene. apprciate comments.

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:08 pm

There aren't a lot of details in the buildings. It can be very hard to get good hdr's at sundown so why bother ? Razz