Girl on a motorbike HDR

[Whippeticious]

I'm new to HDR. I quite like the shiny plasticky look of this, but I'm not sure if it's overdone?

2638 HDR Ae by kirislin, on Flickr
tried to back off a bit to lose the halo, but it then loses alot of the effect I like

2638 HDR Ae.2 by kirislin, on Flickr

[M_Six]

I like the shot. Try loading the two shots in layers and use a layer mask to just brush out the halo. That way you get to keep your HDR'd bike.

[stanclark]

there is also a streak from the last A to the track

[Whippeticious]

Originally Posted by stanclark

there is also a streak from the last A to the track

took me a while to realise what you mean. I am pretty sure it's a blade of grass, she was going pretty fast and I was panning to keep up, that just shows how much camera movement there was to keep her reasonably sharp.

M_six, I dont have a layers function. I did this on DPP.

[Qbx]

There is a wide lighter than normal strip (more noticeable in the first shot) which looks like it is on the track. It starts below the bike right about where "...MAHA" is and goes down the frame. Is that what you are referring to?

[Whippeticious]

Originally Posted by Qbx

There is a wide lighter than normal strip (more noticeable in the first shot) which looks like it is on the track. It starts below the bike right about where "...MAHA" is and goes down the frame. Is that what you are referring to?

I think that's what he meant, and I'm pretty sure it's a blade of grass. A wide ghosty band.

[Whippeticious]

Yep, I've been back and checked other pics taken in almost the same place but with a much faster shutter speed and it's a blade of grass.

[stumbows]

How do you make a HDR with a moving shot? Do you take the one shot and make 3 versions of it in different exposures?

[stanclark]

yes the wide light band was what I was talking about.... you could clone it out

[Whippeticious]

Originally Posted by stumbows

How do you make a HDR with a moving shot? Do you take the one shot and make 3 versions of it in different exposures?

to be honest I dont know. I didn't take 3 shots obviously, but I've just downloaded the lastest version of DPP and it has an HDR function, I was just playing around with it and wondered what would happen if I only loaded one photo in. And this was the result.

[stumbows]

Ok so I'm assuming that the program does the import multiple exposures and merges them together all in one? Was the image taken in RAW?

[Qbx]

I'd doubt this is a true multi-exposure HDR - no one is that smooth in a pan and you'd get a lot of background artifacts. This is probably a push-pull RAW file creating 3 different exposure settings from a single image.

[Whippeticious]

Originally Posted by Qbx

I'd doubt this is a true multi-exposure HDR - no one is that smooth in a pan and you'd get a lot of background artifacts. This is probably a push-pull RAW file creating 3 different exposure settings from a single image.

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There's no way I could've overlaid 3 exposures because of the speed she was traveling at. It's just one exposure as stated previously, see my comment below. I didn't create 3 different exposures by push-pull, maybe the program does, but I just loaded ONE photograph into the program, it did the rest.

Originally Posted by Whippeticious

to be honest I dont know. I didn't take 3 shots obviously, but I've just downloaded the lastest version of DPP and it has an HDR function, I was just playing around with it and wondered what would happen if I only loaded one photo in. And this was the result.

Originally Posted by stumbows

Ok so I'm assuming that the program does the import multiple exposures and merges them together all in one? Was the image taken in RAW?

Yes, I shot in RAW but it's just ONE exposure. The program will use up to 3 exposures, I was just playing around with it and discovered it will still process it with just one though. I've no idea how it works.

[Qbx]

Sorry I missed your earlier post about a single image. If the program you use takes a RAW file then it probably does the push-pull automatically. You can do the same thing yourself manually from the RAW file then using CS5 to process a quasi-HDR. In any event I like the shot. Its a nicely executed pan.

[Whippeticious]

Originally Posted by Qbx

Sorry I missed your earlier post about a single image. If the program you use takes a RAW file then it probably does the push-pull automatically. You can do the same thing yourself manually from the RAW file then using CS5 to process a quasi-HDR. In any event I like the shot. Its a nicely executed pan.

thank you It was my first time shooting bikes but I discovered I was quite good at panning because I'd been trying for years to get a good shot of my whippets, and although I had never succeeded with them, all the practice came in handy for the bikes. photographing bikes is much easier than photographing running whippets.
I dont have CS5, the only editing programs I use are the ones that come with the camera, zoombrowser and DPP