Post Your Best HDR Photo

That last once could be very cool, but it's too dark. Keep working at it! you're doing well so far!

robertwsimpson wrote in post #11443351
That last once could be very cool, but it's too dark. Keep working at it! you're doing well so far!

Thanks for the advice ^^

Here is one from the last race I shot.

Took this a while ago of my road bike. Click the image for more info & higher res.

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S.E.V. wrote in post #11445753
Here is one from the last race I shot.

Is this from a single exposure RAW? A 3 exposure HDR would have helped this one to prevent the blow-out in the sky. I've noticed it with some of my HDR sunsets as well. While the RAW files do have a lot of info in there, they still can't handle images with shadow and sun in a single exposure. As a result the single RAW HDRs tend to look great for the most part but give a bit of an artifact (blow-out) in the areas of the sky/clouds where the sun is. Nice pic though.

Hamster_Huey wrote in post #11449761
Is this from a single exposure RAW? A 3 exposure HDR would have helped this one to prevent the blow-out in the sky. I've noticed it with some of my HDR sunsets as well. While the RAW files do have a lot of info in there, they still can't handle images with shadow and sun in a single exposure. As a result the single RAW HDRs tend to look great for the most part but give a bit of an artifact (blow-out) in the areas of the sky/clouds where the sun is. Nice pic though.

No, not from a single exposure, it was from a 5 shot bracket. I might of blown it out during PP after merging the files. Or that could just be the sun behind the clouds and the clouds are amplifying the suns light. I don't really do a single exposure shot and make my additional files from that, I usually take 3,5 or 7 shots. and merge in photomatix, then tweak in PC5 using a natural and a grunge version of the shot in layers overlaying them and playing with the blend modes.

TransAm WS6

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One thing I've learned to do in vehicle HDR images is put the results from photomatix (or whatever HDR software you're using) into photoshop, put a properly exposed layer under it, and then mask off stuff that doesnt look right in the HDR layer. This helps things like tires and other black bits to look a little less gray, and helps the overall image, I think.

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robertwsimpson wrote in post #11455681
One thing I've learned to do in vehicle HDR images is put the results from photomatix (or whatever HDR software you're using) into photoshop, put a properly exposed layer under it, and then mask off stuff that doesnt look right in the HDR layer. This helps things like tires and other black bits to look a little less gray, and helps the overall image, I think.

Works great. thnx!

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much better!

Tekademic wrote in post #11457048
Works great. thnx!

NICE!, I need to keep this in mind for next time.

I layer and mask just about every HDR photo that I make. There is always something that doesn't look quite right. It's very easy to fix, usually.