HDR test

[jhayesphotography]

i was reading the HDR : Tutorial And Information Links thread and decided to give it a try. Im using a photo i took yesterday during a photo shoot. My friends bagged avalanche on 26s

CC welcome

original

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4510188400_5747bd5857_b.jpg



HDR

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4512877731_98f3d3bde6_b.jpg

[S2K.OGRAPHY]

incredibly overdone in my opinion...if you search for "photomatix tutorials" on youtube you'll find tons of great guides.

[eviltech]

its not very easy to do with 1 image, ( i am assuming it is a single image ) just wondering if it was a jpeg or a raw file. Keep practicing though it will get better.

[jhayesphotography]

incredibly overdone in my opinion...if you search for "photomatix tutorials" on youtube you'll find tons of great guides.

thanks for the feedback, it was my first try so im learning as i go im not gonna get it on the first try and it may be overdone to your standards and what you are used to doing and maybe others but its all about what the photographer that took the photo wants the image to look like, not what he thinks you will like and want it to look like. NOT BEING a dick just making a statement



its not very easy to do with 1 image, ( i am assuming it is a single image ) just wondering if it was a jpeg or a raw file. Keep practicing though it will get better.

thanks it was just one image, but i opened it in ps and made two more images that were +2 and -2, and then used the potomatrix demo to generate the hdr image. i know thats not the way to to it but using 3 raw images instead.i wasnt planning on doing a hdr image of this photo till after i learned how to do it. But since i know how to make three correct images using my camera ill try to make a new hdr to get cc from


again im new at this and im learning, i just wanted to experience a different forum of photography

[bucket772]

I'm not a big fan of the haloing around the edges. I will say that I have seen much worse from first timers. However I do agree that if the photographer and client like it then it really doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. That said, I do find the whole grass/beach/water distracting. It's a lowrider. I would rather see it on a nice fresh piece of asphalt or concrete parking lot. Maybe add some noise or grain to it. Grunge, if you will

Keep up the good work and keep plugging away. And digital is free so if you think you may wanna HDR something then bracket, It can't hurt.

[fly my pretties]

thanks for the feedback, it was my first try so im learning as i go im not gonna get it on the first try and it may be overdone to your standards and what you are used to doing and maybe others but its all about what the photographer that took the photo wants the image to look like, not what he thinks you will like and want it to look like. NOT BEING a dick just making a statement


If C&C is welcome, why are you getting defensive about one guys opinion?

I'm thinking the same as him. Part of becoming a better photographer comes from being honest with yourself.

You say you wanted the image to look like that, but I am going to have to say I don't believe you. If you did want it to look like that, then it's strange that you wanted it to look exactly like you'd just loaded up photomatix for the first time and randomly slid bars backwards and forwards. Incidentally, that's also how lots of other photographers "wanted" their photos to look when they tried HDR for the first time.

Like I say, being honest with yourself is one of the most important factors in becoming better.

It doesn't seem like you've actually studied this image in any way. It's a trap a lot of people fall into when they take a picture and try to digitally alter it. They do sufficient work on it so that it looks different, and they spend so long looking at it that they grow oblivious to its faults.

The sky is incredibly, unrecoverably bland, with a muddy dirty tone that isn't pleasant to look at. 50% of the car is extremely low contrast, and the other 50% is shiny to the point of nuclear. The bright green grass looks plastic and clashes with the rest of the image. There is also some nasty haloing

Also, in my opinion, the image suffers from some depth of field issues. The whole of the car is not in focus, but not enough is sufficiently out of focus to justify the aperture you've chosen.

The right side of the bumper just by the headlights contains lovely contrast, and I think if you'd have spent more time trying to get the rest of the image to have that kind of separation between shadows and highlights, you'd have had a much nicer image.

No offense to you; I think people need honesty in photography. Too many people on Flickr will tell you you're the next David Bailey. I always hope that someone will tell me exactly what they think of my images, good or bad, so I hope you don't take this the wrong way.

[_GUI_]

Leaving aside the 'tone mapped look', that you may like (I don't), if you look closely to the highlight details (chrome parts of the wheel and lights), your HDR version ruined a lot of information that was present in the original image. This is the opposite to what HDR is intended for.

Regards

[PhotoCupcake]

Honestly, that HDR photo is terrible. It ruins a perfectly good photo.

Looking at the original it doesn't look like the dynamic range was too wide for the camera to handle. Why did you pick that photo for your HDR experiment?

[samoan_ridah]

This is definitely an example of where the HDR edit/effect doesn't make the picture better. It's your 1st try, so it's hopefully only going to get better from here. Good luck to you...

[musso]

who body dropped it?


thank you
joe