The *Official Photography Thread*

Can you post the 0 and maybe the +2 and -2?

 

IMO, too many shadows.... sure its tonemapped but its not really HDR

 

If this was really HDR, you'd have a very consistent and even exposure across the image. What you've got going is more tone mapping than anything.

 

Okay, you got me bored, I'm gonna go make a new HDR of my truck BRB shooting

 

I told you sigmas weren't all bad. I loved my 70-200, I shouldn't have sold it

 

-2 exp


Daisy-2.jpg by FearNothing321, on Flickr

0 exp


Daisy0.jpg by FearNothing321, on Flickr

+2 exp


Daisy+2.jpg by FearNothing321, on Flickr

 

Theres no contrast in that photo... ie, only one color, and its red..... red is probably the worst color IMO in photography....

 

I'm not much for the 'exentric' tone mapping anymore... heres a quickie, no real composure to the shot, +2/-2 bracketing, which still wasn't enough to get the sky, but I wasn't going to sit there all day. This was a 5 minute job

 

so to do a proper HDR i need a photo that has alot of contrast in color (not just a single color), not just one that i think would make a good one. Thank you for the heads up on that.

 

Well, lets just put it this way. Red is a tough color. Nikons love red as well. If you look at my photo, its hard to create a smooth contrast on my paint job. I don't know how else to explain it but red just sucks


Also remember that when you create ANY photo, you need details of sorts. When you bracket photos, you are allowing room for the 'perfect' exposure. Sometimes the sun is too bright and washes out your photo.... so you would underexpose.... bringing back the details that washed out.

The first photo is your bracket is worthless, its too dark, nothing useful in it. The second photo just seems out of focus, and the third photo has painful contrast... its just a bad photo, sorry

 

I was editing the exposures in Photoshop Elements, I cannot remember what exposure i originally shot it in. I'll try a different image tomorrow

 

In HDR, you're looking to expand the dynamic range of the photo; to open up the shadows and close down the bright spots. You don't necessarily need a lot of contrast in color.

In a landscape photo, you're looking to open up for of the darker portions of the images and to even the exposure in the bright areas--this is what true HDR is.

Many people mistake tone mapping as HDR however, it's an essential part of the HDR process but not HDR. When you're done with the process, you should end up with an image that is difficult to know whether HDR was used or not.

Tone mapping can be used to create a more artistic images too.

 

Durrr, you guys are gonna get me on a tone-mapping binge again, I haven't done this shit for years now.


Here is straight tone-mapping on one photo, no HDR, just a well exposed photo.

 

The flower turns out to be bright across the image. Like this:

 

I should add that i used just the +/- 0 image and derived the +2 and -2 from that. The exposure is a bit off in the 0 image although I didn't try to fix it.

 

What ian said is a good point though, you shouldn't confuse HDR with tone-mapping.... what kind of artist are you today? Do you want to make fancy 'tone-mapped' images or do you want to create properly exposed images through HDR format? HDR doesn't have to be software generated though.... most photographers use graduated neutral density filters, like I did in this photo. Normally, the sky would be too bright, or the foreground would be too dark. GND filters are like the windshield on your truck, it has a dark filter near the top to prevent stray sunlight from blinding you.

 

Yes. Tone mapping will get you the "pseudo HDR" look but it will never actually have the dynamic range of an actual HDR using multiple exposures where you will have an image that will have detail in the highlight areas and the shadow areas where it was otherwise lost in that "0" image

 

I'm confused, did you just repeat what I said or did I leave something out?

 

I was agreeing with you

 

haha, just checking, threw me off a bit, plus I'm stupid tired right now.

Heres one of my my popular images when tone-mapping was the shizz