first hdr/panoramic

[slammeddub]

I'm new to the forum, so I thought I would share one of my latest works. This is my first attempt at HDR photography, and my first attempt at a panoramic shot. I used my rebel xti, with the stock lens. Photoshop CS3 was used for all the editing.

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb29/slammeddub/Untitled_Panorama1.jpg

[peter/c]

Thats a pretty impressive first attempt, at least in My eyes.
peter.

[slammeddub]

thanks, anyone else have any input, or suggestions to make future ones better?

[Right Cranium Imaging]

Just curious, did you stitch together the images first and then adjust color etc, or adjust color on each individual and then stitch and merge? I guess my question is just, whats a quick rundown of your workflow?

[JustinLawrence]

Looks soft, remember to do USM (generally 0.3 60% is what i use in PS CS3) on all you images resized for web. Doesnt look very HDRish, can you post the original mid exposure image for comparison?

[slammeddub]

The way I did it summed up was:
-Merged my sets of pictures to HDR
-Joined the 4 HDR pictures together with photomerge (on automatic setting for now
-I then adjusted the colors
-Then I decided to try it in black and white and kept it that way. I also have a version where I put the car in color.

I'm pretty new to these techniques, and I dont know what USM means (atleast not the abbreviation. And to be honest I didn't resize it for web. But I will try that, as well as post the medium exposure.

[elysium]

Looks cool but IMO, no real HDR can really be seen here since there is no colour. Unless there is a second pic which does not load here?

[JakPot]

yeah, let's see the color version! looks promising though for sure.

[JustinLawrence]

The way I did it summed up was:
-Merged my sets of pictures to HDR
-Joined the 4 HDR pictures together with photomerge (on automatic setting for now
-I then adjusted the colors
-Then I decided to try it in black and white and kept it that way. I also have a version where I put the car in color.

I'm pretty new to these techniques, and I dont know what USM means (atleast not the abbreviation. And to be honest I didn't resize it for web. But I will try that, as well as post the medium exposure.

USM = UnSharp Mask, you can find it under the filters --> Sharpen menu in Photoshop (use the settings i reccommended before). you should always resize your own images to around 1000 pixels along the longest edge, then use USM, then upload that image to web without any other modification. That way you wont get soft images resized by photobucket or whatever hosting you use.

Another thing, i would recomend using Photomatix Pro 3 software for generating the HDR image, PM me and ill tell you where to get it ;)

[slammeddub]

Here is the same picture in full color, I will still get up a midle exsposure as well then. This version doesnt have many corrections made. The front wheel of the car is out of focus a bit, but I am going to fix that.

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb29/slammeddub/Untitled_Panorama1-1.gif

[elysium]

I think it looks good. Possibly clone out the pylon out. Maybe add a nice black thick black border on top and bottom for that "widescreen effect"