Playing With HDR: Pictures Of My Engine Bay
08-02-08, 10:04 AM
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I tried gtpfsgui and got some better results. But holy hell, that program is slow! And difficult to use. A lot of tweaking is necessary to get a decent image.
Photomatix does a much better job, though at $99 I'm a bit reluctant to purchase. A hundred dollars for software that does only one thing and will only be used occasionally seems a bit excessive.
I'm going to try Picturenaut and see what the results are. If they aren't great, I guess I'll bite the bullet and get Photomatix.
Photomatix does a much better job, though at $99 I'm a bit reluctant to purchase. A hundred dollars for software that does only one thing and will only be used occasionally seems a bit excessive.
I'm going to try Picturenaut and see what the results are. If they aren't great, I guess I'll bite the bullet and get Photomatix.
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Yeah, I don't quite know what happened. I followed the instructions, took three different exposures and then combined them in software. The result was that the pictures showed a hell of a lot more detail and had a better dynamic range, but hardly HDR. Keep in mind I took many of these pictures in the shadows at 7PM. The process did bring out a lot detail but didn't create that super surreal look I've been in other HDR images. Maybe I need different software?
Some people like horrible **** like this:
http://www.digitalcameratracker.com/.../hdr-truck.jpg
and it's sort of emerging as a fugly style of sorts, but that really isn't the point. HDR images allow you to show details in the shadows as well as highlights beyond the normal range of a single exposure. The point is to make an image appear more like you would see with your eyes. Closer to this:
http://mcsearcher.files.wordpress.co...our_sunset.jpg
if you had exposed for the sunset, the marina would be very underexposed, and if you had exposed for the marina, the sky would be terribly blown out. If you've seen many Ansel Adams photos then you've seen good HDR.
08-22-09, 10:59 AM
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and it's sort of emerging as a fugly style of sorts, but that really isn't the point. HDR images allow you to show details in the shadows as well as highlights beyond the normal range of a single exposure. The point is to make an image appear more like you would see with your eyes. Closer to this:
http://mcsearcher.files.wordpress.co...our_sunset.jpg
if you had exposed for the sunset, the marina would be very underexposed, and if you had exposed for the marina, the sky would be terribly blown out. If you've seen many Ansel Adams photos then you've seen good HDR.
http://mcsearcher.files.wordpress.co...our_sunset.jpg
if you had exposed for the sunset, the marina would be very underexposed, and if you had exposed for the marina, the sky would be terribly blown out. If you've seen many Ansel Adams photos then you've seen good HDR.
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