My first HDR and Tone Map

[Mpiece]

Hi everyone here is my first post but my second HDR and toned map image
Im very new to photograhapy and only have owned my 450D for a short while now. I used my kit lense for this shot.


http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh264/Mpiece23/exclusive/HDR002_3_4.jpg


http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh264/Mpiece23/exclusive/HDR100crop.jpg

comments and crits please .. my shots sure dont look good as everyone elses here

[Zayets]

You've done a pretty nice job in both pitures. :cool:

The first pic hasa tiny hint of halos around the trees and the clouds on the left. This is a normal side effect of the tone mapping that happens with the skies. It can be easliy corrected by reducing the dramatic light effect.

Second picture is great. :)

[Mpiece]

Thanks , that means alot to a newb like me The second image is a 100% crop of the first one. I got a few more AEB shots that im about to play with in a second.

I got a question though , when someone makes a HDR and tone map it what kind of results do you get because I get crappy results until i throw it in photoshop .. here is a shot before i used photoshop

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh264/Mpiece23/exclusive/prePS.jpg


also i forgot i made a tone mapped image from a video game screen id like to post before and after pics of should i make a new thread or is it cool to post here

[canonloader]

The halos come from the Light Smooting setting being too low. The one with the 5 radio buttons. Go closer to 5 to get rid of them. And, every Photomatix render is not done until you run the resulting tif or jpg through Photoshop for some noise reduction and sharpening, among other things.

You can post the other ones here or a new thread. Up to you. :)

[kirkt]

You may get better final results if you go easy on the tonemapping in Photomatix, etc. and save your final contrast enhancement, etc. for Photoshop. Most of the time it will depend on the nature of the image and all that jazz, but don;t feel obligated to think that your final image needs to come straight out of the tonemapper.

Have fun!

Kirk

[Igoryek69]

if you're using CS you can merge to HDR and tonemap without leaving photoshop. I tried Photomatix, dynamic photo, and working with photomatix plugin for photoshop. I get best results with merging in photoshop, saving in TIFF, then tonemap with photomatix plugin.
I like what you did here, better then what I did when first tried messing with HDR's

[Mpiece]

Thanx for the tips

I ended up having to format to reinstall windows because my eos utility stopped recognizing my camera for live capture. Plus I needed to anyway .
Im up and running finally.


Here is a screen shot of a video game called wipeoutHD, before i had the chance to go out and shoot my owns shots , this gamehas a feature called camera mode and you have full control over the exposure, aperture , and a few other features i find my DSLR has ! so i tried make my absolute first hdr with this.

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh264/Mpiece23/exclusive/830jpg_445.jpg

and im only going to post 1 of the original exposures just for comparison

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh264/Mpiece23/exclusive/wohd_20090107_192953jpg.jpg

[canonloader]

That's really cool, what a concept. This is a computer game? What format does it save images in?

[Mpiece]

Its a racing game on the playstation 3 , it saves jpegs at 1920x1080