HDR Shot's

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:shock: WOW, I'm loving that New York skyline one.

I'm going to have to give this a go sometime :D
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What HDR software do you use?
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that one of the city is awsome.

howe is it done?
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ok basically you set your camera up on a tripod and you take three identical photos, one with the exposure lowered, say to about -2, one to normal exposure i.e. 0 and one thats over exposed so +2. Thus one dark one normal one light, the software then maps all three together, murging all the tones to create the effect.

I used a software called photomatix which is free and dead simle to use, but the problem i found was it can make the images quite grainy. photoshop cs2 also does it. have a go.
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pip_polo wrote:that one of the city is awsome.

howe is it done?
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Read my first post.
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I'll ask the question in a different way then....
dino wrote:Then using some HDR software you merge all 3 images and then tone map the one image. This gives a more realistic picture and is a lot closer to what the human eye see's.
I have a fuji S5100 and I've never used the bracketed shot facility because I didn't know you could merge shots like that

What software do you use to do that?
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bstardchild wrote:I'll ask the question in a different way then....
dino wrote:Then using some HDR software you merge all 3 images and then tone map the one image. This gives a more realistic picture and is a lot closer to what the human eye see's.
I have a fuji S5100 and I've never used the bracketed shot facility because I didn't know you could merge shots like that

What software do you use to do that?
I can't remember what the software i'm using is called but the free trial software on this site will do the same.

http://www.hdrsoft.com/

Also take a look at the tutorial on there - will explain it better than i can! :D
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Instead of using HDR software, couldnt you just cut, paste and overlap the images (where necessesary) in PS?
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Tim_GTi wrote:Instead of using HDR software, couldnt you just cut, paste and overlap the images (where necessesary) in PS?
this is the effect you get doing it that way. its almost the same but it takes a lot longer
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Post by Tim_GTi »

Woa that ones really weird!!

Think I prefer the original,

But yeh cheers for the response I may give this a go, the PS way when I can get my hands on my dads camera,

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=just done couple rnd campus, 1 of my library one of my halls. wot u think??
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Second one's amazing Joe!!!!
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think i'm going to have to have a play with this! espcailly with the new forrest just around the corner! :wink:
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Yeh I've seen some amazing forest examples of these, like this one

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Post by DanDiesel »

i tried one but it didn't reallt come out too well to be honest! gonna have another go when i see something cool!
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