Wow those are so amazing, I tried to make one w/ my Sony T9 :P and it turned out sucky. Besides the camera, what is the best lighting condition to take these HDR pictures? like lots of clouds? sorry I'm a newbie when it comes to HDRs. Any tips would be apprecited
That's the beauty of HDR. You don't have to care about lighting conditions. Different lighting conditions will yield different results, but they will all look good in some unique way.
Just a note, if you are shooting in a slightly darker light, you might want to avoid doing hand held shots. I had a hell of a time doing my previous shoot (the one before this one) because it was cloudy and evening was approaching quickly.
The paint in your picture looks really nice. I would open it in photoshop and dodge the rims so they don't look as dark. There's an odd blur in the background too so you might want to consider hiding that with an overlay of motion blur.
Ursus, you'd want to use a dSLR camera for HDR pictures since they have AEB (continuous shooting with changing exposure levels) built in making the process much easier. Tripods are needed or you can get a lot of blurry looking images if your hands shake.
What program did you use to make that first attempt?? It doesn't appear that HDR was truly accomplished, you have some really dark areas that normally HDR would take care of, where most areas of the image are well exposed to provide high details, giving it an almost surreal look sometimes.
Although that pic doesn't really scream HDR when I look at it, its a pretty good composition and you have some interesting effects going on. If you play with some of the brightness and contrast in certain areas spike mentioned it could clean it up a little.
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bad ass pictures. my only gripe is the open hood pictures with oem hood rods. i think those things look horrible. anyone who wants to take open hood shots should get the hood struts like spike (myself included)
Thanks for your advices Spike&Shot, I was actually using a mini tripod with my Sony T9, ISO 200, EV -2,0,+2, and used PS CS3. I am also a starting newbie for CS too so I am currently trying out the dodge tool. This thing is much fun, but so complicated. I wish I could one day be as good as some of ppl of the forums.
Use Photomatix to create the HDR pics instead of CS3- you will get higher quality HDRs with less fiddling.
I recommended Photomatix to Spike when he first posted his Photoshop HDRs. If you search you can find his older PS HDRs, compare that to what he is creating now in Photomatix and you be the judge of what program is best. I believe he uses PS only to enhance and edit pictures now after the HDR is created in Photomatix. Feel free to correct me if im wrong Spike.
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What program did you use to make that first attempt?? It doesn't appear that HDR was truly accomplished, you have some really dark areas that normally HDR would take care of, where most areas of the image are well exposed to provide high details, giving it an almost surreal look sometimes.
Not entirely true. Under certain conditions, the black points can easily over power the white points, even in photomatix. This is why those sliders need to be fiddled with.
With that said, it looks like he did the merge in CS3, I had the same problem with the darkening of odd areas.
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Use Photomatix to create the HDR pics instead of CS3- you will get higher quality HDRs with less fiddling.
I recommended Photomatix to Spike when he first posted his Photoshop HDRs. If you search you can find his older PS HDRs, compare that to what he is creating now in Photomatix and you be the judge of what program is best. I believe he uses PS only to enhance and edit pictures now after the HDR is created in Photomatix. Feel free to correct me if im wrong Spike.
Yep, you are absolutely correct. The job isn't done after the photomatix merge. There's MUCH to be done in photoshop, lots of touching up to do.
Here's one of my more polished off images...my friend had recently taught me a few more tricks with CS3:
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