HDR Experiment

Ok. I've seen some HDR photos done by editing the exposier in RAW and saving serperate images. What I did was played with the exposier feature in CS2, increasing and decreasing the exposier and saving the images. I then combined them in Photomatix and used Neatimage to clean them up a bit (they seem to come out a bit grainy in some of the darker areas.


This was done combining 5 images

Dare wrote in post #2497484
(they seem to come out a bit grainy in some of the darker areas.

This is because when you play with the exposure settings on a file, it's essentially like levels where you add brightness to dark areas. The software is compensating and it never gets it right.
True HDR is multiple exposures out of the camera. This is more IDR - Increased dynamic range.
And I don't think these photos work - the edits don't look good, I'm sorry to say.

AdamJL wrote in post #2497510
I don't think these photos work - the edits don't look good

Depends what you are looking for. I wouldn't dump this picture rightaway. You could find an MC member thinking this is flattering. The plastic look (due to Neatimage?) increases the articifial feeling and works well for me. -- In the right context this is a good picture. (I prefer the 3 image version.)

I like these ...

From a photographic point of view, I think that these pictures cannot represent a successful HDR application.
From an artistic point of view, these shots are fantastic. A little more experimenting could lead to resemblance of Old Masters Art. The composition in the shots is not the greatest, in my opinion, but say the bike was not in the picture, and the person filled more of the frame, then maybe you had a better composition. The amount of light that reflects from the bike is distracting from the rest of the image, and would have been better if more light was on the person instead. The colors are also a bit off, as if Color Burn was lightly applied.
You made me want to play with this idea a bit.
Overall, I think that artistically this is a promising start. Keep working at it.

As an artsy image yes i really do like. I actually prefer the 3 exposure image over the 5. However.. i think i'd like the blue colouring of the bike seat and body in the first image to be the same on the second.Sorry i dont know bike parts to be more helpful there.

Nic

In all honesty, both of these pictures look "fake" to me. Sorry!

I like the second one best also. I think it works as an "artsy" image. I like it.

Did you use tone mapping on these?

Dare wrote in post #2497484
Ok. I've seen some HDR photos done by editing the exposier in RAW and saving serperate images. What I did was played with the exposier feature in CS2, increasing and decreasing the exposier and saving the images. I then combined them in Photomatix and used Neatimage to clean them up a bit (they seem to come out a bit grainy in some of the darker areas.


This was done combining 5 images

An intersting effect but it looks m0re like a filter was applied than HDR

I like them though especially no.1

Really cool, I like the effect with 3 shots!

The bike looks dirty instead of cool. May I suggest you take that image in blacken the tires to a very shinny black? I think that might add a lot.

Looks like he used the HIGH PASS FILTER in Photoshop.

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