JPEG to HDR?

[gchristopher9]

I just picked up a canon XS10IS and want to try to get into HDR photography. I like the ones that are heavily done and look like paintings. Do I need to be shooting in RAW or are the JPEGs from my new camera going to be enough to make these type of HDR images?

[gchristopher9]

29 views and not a single reply. Lame

[randy.wick]

29 views and not a single reply. Lame
That's a little impatient, don't you think? Chill out :)

Shooting in RAW increases the amount of data stored in the image file, and so using a series of RAW images to generate an HDR will give you better results. If you are looking for a high-quality photo, that is.

What it sounds like you want to do, however, is make an extremely overprocessed, unrealistic picture, in which case the extra data really aren't so important. That's good news for you because your camera is not natively capable of shooting in RAW.

While you do have the AEB functionality, I would still recommend you take a look at CHDK to add RAW to your camera, among a ton of other features. You will probably get tired of the overdone HDRs quickly and it would help to have this to fall back on in the mean time.

And just one more quick point-- in the fifteen hours between your posts you could have quite easily found the same information, rather than declaring the forum lame for not jumping to your request.

[gchristopher9]

seems like it just took a little smack talk to bet someone to reply. :D

no, i apologize. i'm used to the car forums i'm on where replies come almost instantly.

i have been reading through the site for a few days now and didn't come across anything as helpful as your post. I will definitely look into this CHDK, since from what i have found RAW is the way to go for creating HDR. If i can make it shoot RAW, i can make HDR from single images right?

[randy.wick]

seems like it just took a little smack talk to bet someone to reply. :D

no, i apologize. i'm used to the car forums i'm on where replies come almost instantly.

i have been reading through the site for a few days now and didn't come across anything as helpful as your post. I will definitely look into this CHDK, since from what i have found RAW is the way to go for creating HDR. If i can make it shoot RAW, i can make HDR from single images right?
LOL, yeah a little smack talk usually gets people to listen :)

You *can* make HDR from a single image with RAW, but that's not optimal because all it is doing is changing exposure compensation to brighten or darken the image based on exposure algorithms. But since your camera has the ability to shoot a bracket (and CHDK will expand this ability), why not just shoot 3? Or 5, or 7? If you're worried about a tripod, it's not always necessary; Photoshop has a great aligning alorithm and Photomatix is getting better at its.

Check this site out for CHDK. I think you'll like it, and if I ever get my S5-IS back then it's the first thing that will go on it!
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

[gchristopher9]

it looks like this firmware expansion is still in development for my camera, so i will keep an eye out for that. it would be nice to set up a script to automatically take 3 or 5 RAW images at different exposures, with one click of the button through the USB port. That would really be the ideal setup. Until that becomes available, i will have to do it manually with JPGs. Hopefully i can make it happen without becoming to frustrated.

[-Douglas-]

Smack talk---I love it! but also I think the amount of views also contains non-members that cannot post replies. I might be totally wrong though.

[kirkt]

You can shoot JPEG no problem. See this site for tips:

http://www.hdrlabs.com/tutorials/index.html

make sure you fix the WB to minimize color shifts (i.e., don;t use Auto WB). You may also want to turn off any in-camera processing (like contrast boosting, sharpening, etc.) and do all of that in tonemapping and PP.

Have fun!

Kirk

PS - bumping the thread by calling viewers lame is a very interesting and probably ineffective way to ingratiate yourself with a new bunch of helpful people. Luckily we don;t take it personally here, so consider yourself fortunate to have found a laid back group.

[Cheeshead]

Have used s3 (using jpegs) for shooting HDR's for about a year now.....I've found that you just don't get quite the range (depth) of colors and a bit of noise...even with shooting at ISO 80


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