I like this type of articles a lot: before and after images. Now I show you some outstanding HDR images we had done in a past. Do not do them much now, busy with in-studio work with the products, but I still enjoy working with HDRi.
I will not give you many technical aspects how to make HDR photos, but this is what our photographer Alex Koloskov has told me about how he shot these landscape HDR photos:
” I usually do from two to four or five exposures for each HDR, decision s made based on how wide dynamic range is needed.
For bright sunny day, where there is a deep shadows and bright sky or water is present, up to five exposures may be needed to get the correct exposure for the whole range of brightness. On dusk and dawn, two or three exposure will be enough.
I rarely use auto exposure bracketing (when camera makes from 3 to 5 images for you form up to _3 to +3 f-stops), but rather shoot on manual, making more then 3 f-stops bracketing when needed.
The idea is to get correctly exposed the darkest and the brightest part of the image , the rest should fall in between.”
~Alex
For these landscape images I used Photomatix Pro 3 because I like some unrealistic effect it gives.
When I need more realistic images (especially for architecture) I like to use Photoshop, selecting two or more files from a set of exposures to merge and create a High Dynamic Range image. There is even more accurate method: using masks, when I manually merge specific areas of the image by masking them and blending with another layer.
But again, for these particular photos I used Photomatix Pro 3 plus some Photoshop adjustments.
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HDR photography before and after, Atlanta, GA
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Before and after HDR
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High Dynamic Range image. Before and after.
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HDRi. Before and after lake lanier.
Before and after HDR. Lake Lanier.
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HDR photography, before and after. Lake Lanier, GA
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Жень, а как ты делаешь ХДР, когда там люди – они ведь двигаются и даже на трайподе с разными экспозициями будут “гоусты”, если их свести потом в фотоматиксе… я помню, меня это очень напрягало, еще когда мы АТЛ ночью фотали и машины ездили… забыла у тебя спросить..
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admin Reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 2:07 am
Ira, if you shoot in RAW you can simulate HDR on one of the shots and use it to mask in the ghost areas.
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I don’t know if HDRi is a HDR conversion software or not but you getting nice results. Nice processing. I use Photomatix and have been for about two years and love it. Have tried others but don’t think they compare.
admin, you can also make 3 copies of a raw and convert them to HDR in photomatix or most other programs out there. I find it much easier and faster than masking. I am still not happy with cs5 edition of HDR but it is certainly better than cs4.
Gary
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admin Reply:
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:01 am
Thank you for your comment, Gary. I use Photomatix also and like it. I just fix some problem areas using Photoshop masking.
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Very nice images. Provides inspiration with my future HDR photos.
Here are a few HDR images I’ve had success with.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/papamiller/sets/72157623943042243/
Thanks for viewing.
Paul Miller
RochesterCityPhoto.com
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admin Reply:
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:03 am
Nice images, Paul. Thank you for sharing:-)
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Your images are very nice and intriging because I have difficulty with moving objects. You control movement of leaves and water very well. Even the image with moving people shows no ‘shadowing’. I am having problems with this aspect – are you also masking? or is there something I am not doing right?
thanks and congratulations, Philippe
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August 3rd, 2010 at 8:59 am
Thank you, Philippe!
Yes, I use masking to fix problems with leaves and moving people.
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here is one of my favorite HDR photographers, Trey ratcliff. he has a very in depth HDR tutorial.
http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/
BL
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admin Reply:
August 10th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Thank you for the link, Brian. But I am not really fan of this style.
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Hey, Nice photo’s.today i made the first HDR photo’s: http://visueelconcept.blogspot.com/2010/11/hdr.html
in Almere city, Netherlands. Many more wil come.
The before and after is a great idea. I like it very much to do it on the blog.
Can i make a before and after photo in Blogspot?
Michiel.
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