Fake "HDR"

[bckane]

Well I was going out today to try a few HDR pictures. Been wanted to try but just haven't had the time. Anyhow pretty cloudy day here today, so what I did was fake a HDR photo. I took an old picture of a wooden area and made 3 different exposures out of one. -2 0 +2 then used Photmaxtix to generate a HDR photo. Just wanted to share the out come...BTW I removed the person in the original picture
Here's the original picture:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a276/bckane/Image19.jpg

and here is the fake HDR didnt come out that bad
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a276/bckane/Image19_20_21_tonemappedframe.jpg

[aRJun]

I might not be that literate about this, but I think what you've done is the right way to do an HDR..nothing fake about it..well done though

[sblais]

I think he made the "HDR" image from the same picture. Thus, the "fake" part. Some people call that tone mapping. Same difference.

Like the colors in the fake image! Good job :)

[howzitboy]

came out really good! time to go out and shoot some more pictures and have fun!

[aRJun]

I think he made the "HDR" image from the same picture. Thus, the "fake" part. Some people call that tone mapping. Same difference.

Like the colors in the fake image! Good job :)

Well, his words could mean either way:
"I took an old picture of a wooden area and made 3 different exposures out of one. -2 0 +2"

Well I guess now I get it...hmmmm really neat stuff then man...Photomatix does tolerate doing this (photoshop would cry!)

[rparchen]

You can get photoshop to do it but you need to stip the exif. Here is a shot that I made a "fake" HDR out of. I think I used like five images spaced 1 E/V (-2 to +2) by changing the exposures in Adobe LR and saving them as jpegs. Using that many was probably overkill but I was just experimenting around.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/rparchen/Photography/Landscape/Dume2.jpg

[bnlearle]

You can get photoshop to do it but you need to stip the exif. Here is a shot that I made a "fake" HDR out of. I think I used like five images spaced 1 E/V (-2 to +2) by changing the exposures in Adobe LR and saving them as jpegs. Using that many was probably overkill but I was just experimenting around.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/rparchen/Photography/Landscape/Dume2.jpg

I love this image. Is there a link to a tutorial to show someone how to do this?

[howzitboy]

that "HDR" shot came out really kewl rparchen!! guess time to start playing with photomatix some more!!

[bckane]

Well, his words could mean either way:
"I took an old picture of a wooden area and made 3 different exposures out of one. -2 0 +2"

Well I guess now I get it...hmmmm really neat stuff then man...Photomatix does tolerate doing this (photoshop would cry!)

Your right I had an image from my old camera, because I liked the water and trees. anyhow In CS3 I had one image and underexposed it by -2 then overexposed it by +2....renaming the files....then opened 3 files in photomatix and let the program do its stuff....all in all didn't turn out that bad...I tried several more that even turned out better....:)
Brian

[bckane]

Here's one more I did same area....liking the colors
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a276/bckane/2try.jpg

[Picture North Carolina]

I think he made the "HDR" image from the same picture. Thus, the "fake" part. Some people call that tone mapping. Same difference.

Yep, same thing. Take a single image, make three different exposures from it (-2,0,+2), blend them together via tone mapping and viola! An image with increased dynamic range, adding 2 f-stops of additional data to each end of the histogram. Kinda makes you wonder why all the camera company's R&D departments are working so hard to be the first to achieve the holy grail: a sensor with unlimited dynamic range when it can easily be achieved with a $49 software package. ;) ;) ;)