More HDR fun

[Richard D]

[NashVegas]

1. That's Intense

It looks like an illustration.

[DeepBlueC]

2. Wow

That is fabulous!

[glinda]

3. Awesome! How are you doing this technique again? I think I would like to try it.

Where is this location/city or State? I always like to know since I don't get out much! LOl!

[dbmk]

4. Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

http://www.dabomb.dk/?p=5 (ignore the Danish and click on the links :) )

[Richard D]

5. Thanks

Picture was taken in San Francisco from some friends apartment in the upper Haight. I'm using photomatrix pro to do the beginning of the HDR creation using 5 frames each shot 1 f-stop apart. then i mess with contrast and saturation to get the effect I want. I don't really like the look of a pure HDR image. To hyper real for me. I like the surrealness of this image.

[Fumesucker]

6. Your images are extremely interesting..

They do indeed strongly resemble illustrations as a poster above noted.. I'm always interested in anything that gives unusual yet pleasing to the eye results and I think your shots are very pleasing to the eye.

And I agree with (I think it was) you that the church image, while stunning in a technical sense and clearly an achievement, didn't greatly appeal to me for some reason I can't quite put my finger on.

I think the name of the program is "Photomatix" though, not "Photomatrix", although there could be another program that does the same thing of a very similar name of which I'm not aware.

[Richard D]

8. Yes, Photomatix

Thank you!

Just got the newest version. Pretty slick. Easy to use but rather slow.

[alfredo]

7. Excellent images I looked at how to do it in GIMP, it's a long process, but

I found an interesting filter called Retinex.

Screen Capture.



With the Retinex filter applied





flower before:



after with filter faded:

[Tindalos]

9. Oooh! That looks cool!

It really doesn't look like a real place at all. More like a cg world. Thanks for explaining how you do it. That's really neat stuff.

[JeffR]

10. Would love to see a side-by-side of an original exposure

& the HDR. My guess would be that both are great. Beautiful dramatic sky and a canny composition, vast space and kind of touching, mundane foreground details. Really beautiful as an HDR, and I suspect maybe without.

BTW, I found myself with an unexpected free afternoon today, and having seen this, I went back to try some HDR stuff myself after having forgotten about it for a while. Nothing worth posting yet, but the experimentation was fun and with more effort, I think I might just come up with something worth sharing one of these days. Thanks for keeping me inspired.