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John Photography
28th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:17
i made an attempt at my 1st HDR shot using AEB with Photomatic 3.

Photo #1
f/9
1/80

Photo #2
f/9
1/320

Photo #3
f/9
1/1250

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh228/jsalangs/IMG_0268_69_70_tonemapped.jpg
S7000
28th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:27
It looks a little dark. If you were going to go that low / high in your shutter speed you should've taken a few in between and stacked 2 more shots. From what I understand the idea of HDR comes from starting at a single exposure; say 320. Then halving, and doubling that exposure. (Some people choose to go 1 stop too). So your speeds should've been 1/80 - 1/160 - 1/320 - 1/640 - 1/1250. Using that example would've given you a much nicer range of tones to work with.

It's not bad for a first try though. Maybe use a shallower depth of field also, it will give you some nice background blur and really make the flower pop. ;)
John Photography
28th of January 2009 (Wed), 20:32
It looks a little dark. If you were going to go that low / high in your shutter speed you should've taken a few in between and stacked 2 more shots. From what I understand the idea of HDR comes from starting at a single exposure; say 320. Then halving, and doubling that exposure. (Some people choose to go 1 stop too). So your speeds should've been 1/80 - 1/160 - 1/320 - 1/640 - 1/1250. Using that example would've given you a much nicer range of tones to work with.

It's not bad for a first try though. Maybe use a shallower depth of field also, it will give you some nice background blur and really make the flower pop. ;)

i used AEB -2, 0, +2. my XSI only allows me 3 shots, but i can obviously take additional shots manually. also forgot to mention, i mistakenly took these in jpeg rather than RAW.

thanks for the C&C!
joshparzi
29th of January 2009 (Thu), 12:43
Do you happen to have a 535 because I believe we met at the RPI dyno meet.
John Photography
29th of January 2009 (Thu), 12:48
Do you happen to have a 535 because I believe we met at the RPI dyno meet.

yeah bro, that's me! small world.

as you can see, tryin' to learn some HDR.

nice blog!
joshparzi
29th of January 2009 (Thu), 22:15
Yeah thanx. You probably know my brother he had the 535 vishnu procede that was at the RPI dyno day.