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About This Page: This is a discussion on Computers/Tech/Photo within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Wow! An 18 stop range with the Canon 1 series, that is insane.
Okay. As some of you may have seen, I played around for a little while at the Getty Center today. I shot a couple bracketed scenes so that I could play around with Photomatix when I got back home.
Here's what I came up with. I'm kinda happy with the way these turned out, though I still need some practice. I tried to remember the Zone System when looking at scenes, and that really did help a lot.
I've linked below the HDRs to the images that are the median exposure in the five-shot bracket.
After I got them looking the way I wanted them to look in Photomatix, I tweaked them a bit in Photoshop for brightness, contrast, dust spots, noise, and sharpness.
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Last edited by FlyBoeingJets; April 11th, 2008 at 09:27 AM.
1 and 2 are superb! I love them. 3 is close, but I think the varying tonality in the sky is a little distracting to me (where going left to right starting at the sun it goes sun, bright patch, dark patch, light patch, wall, lighter patch). Fantastic.
OK I went back at 8:30 and it was cool but too dark to do a bracket hand held so I'll have to bring a tripod to do an HDR. Here's a non-HDR straight out of the camera. THANKS for the tip Mr. Monkey, the lighting is bitchen. I'll have to schedule my dog walks at 8:30 for awhile!
Yeah, dusk'ish is a good lighting range, and ambient colored neon creates some really nice effects with the HDR. Can't wait to see more from your walks.
Here's a work in progress of a technique that I've been working on lately. What I am doing is, after creating the HDR file, I create multiple tone-mapped files, each adjusted for specific parts of the particular image. Then I'm combining those images yet again in Photoshop and blending and masking. Much more involved obviously, but I've created some interesting images lately that way. Not for every HDR image, but a useful tool to have available.
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