Since seeing these types images for the first time a year or so ago i’m glad my new camera has an in built function to take the series of under and over exposed images in quick succession with very little work from me.
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Over the course of the weekend i will be attempting my first HDR image and if i can get even the slightest level of success i’ll be well happy with myself.
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I’m sure you’ll get a grasp of it in no time. Almost had me fooled for a minute thinking you took those above.
Great pic’s of Matsumoto Castle, a place I visited often for painting when I lived in Nagano Prefecture. Good place to visit in the spring, the castle is surrounded by cherry trees. The only 5 floor castle left in Japan.
I see a new blog header coming
Looking forward to seeing what you get. I am not sure how you were planning on doing it, but from what I understand, the program Photomatix is very helpful…
Holy i saw a green Buddha.
I think they look great.. here a few few that I have tried…
http://paulhartrick.com/night-time-hdr-image
http://paulhartrick.com/bomb-dome-hiroshima-hdr
http://paulhartrick.com/more-hdr-images
Its good to know that this camera has this option. It would be nice if the camera can combine these pictures by itself, but it should be easy by PS.
The color saturation of some of these images are amazing. Reminds me of what I used to get from using Fujichrome Velvia.
Those images are beautiful, I especially like the 5th and last ones, might be the water. Looking forward to your efforts!
Impressive photos. Look like they were taken by a real pro
I heard that too Evan … will look into it.
They really are brilliant aren`t they.
They really are amaziing images … i will be trying to get some in Hiroshima in a few months time.
Agree …. there`s plenty of easy to use software out there to do it though.
I wish Vigo ….. will keep trying till i can.
Good effort. The bomb domb is a ripper …… looking forward to seeing a lighthouse one of these days.
great looking images from skilled photographers
How did your attempt go over the weekend Neil?
I only snapped a few HDR attempts off …. of nothing special either Kirk, i just wanted to test the functionality. I took some good pics from Asakusa and Shinjuku on Sunday … the Shinjuku ones will be up later today.
awesome pics
great pics esp the 3rd one which reminds me of Shintaro Sato’s work
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/shintaro-satos-great-tokyo-street-light-photographs/
love the pics wish i were there instead of workin here!lol!
They are great hey Gav?!
Hi Neil.
Cheers for sharing my work, i’m so glad you like it! The photo was taken in Miyajima, Japan during the spring [cherry blossom =)]. With regards to HDR photography, you can either do it via multiple exposures or you can create a pseudo image from one raw file. The above picture was actually taken with a compact before I got a DSLR, which shows you don’t need fancy equipment to take fantastic HDR shots.
As someone else pointed out, Photomatix Pro is a very very good piece of software [and coincidentally the program I used]. The shots do not need to match up perfectly, since photomatix will match features, and move the picture around until it works [though ofcourse best results will be gained from using a tripod].
I would advise not to go crazy with saturation [as is so so easy with HDR processing] as this can often make the picture look “fake”. Best to make it look as natural as possible, while still retaining a HDR feel to it.
If you need any help, don’t hesitate to PM me on flickr.
Ewan
Cheers Ewan, appreciate the advice. I have Photomatix Pro and have had a play around with a few test images lately. I think the images i’m using are still lacking that “HDR” friendly appeal so i’ll have to make a better effort to get something that is.
There’s surprisingly few options in that software so i’m guessing it can’t be that hard to follow a few general rules of thumb and come up with a good image or 2.
Will take you up on the offer of advice too!
ND