Tips or Tricks to HDR?

I did a search on here to find tips or tricks on creating HDR photos and couldn't find anything, so now I'm asking for them. From what I understand you shoot from a tripod, one shot is over exposed, one shot is normal, and one shot is under exposed?

This takes you to another site, but it is an excellent tutorial on how to make an HDR.
http://photocamel.com …sing-under-5-minutes.html

Oh yes, and this is good info too. Also from that "other" site.

http://photocamel.com …ips-making-hdr-photo.html

I appreciate it my good man.

You are welcome. Just trying to help.

Ok so here's my next question. Say I've got said images that are needed. What's the trick to putting them together in photoshop? Like what opacity do you use on each image?

Try using different blend modes like lighten or darken and add layer masks as needed. That's what I've done in the past. I haven't broken down and paid for extra software yet... but never say never.

i'll be looking into this in a couple days. i'll try to see if i can get some scenic HDR pics of my view of the airport.

I assume that I'm basically layering each picture right? I mean is each one supposed to be set at the opacity of like 50% or what? It's the actual creation that I'm not quite understanding.

There are several programs that render HDR images. You can indeed use photoshop but if you are looking for something else there are others like photomatix..

here is a somewhat easy guide that I followed when I started doing HDR images..

boucher.

More than one way to go about it.

I use PSP rather than Adobe, but the principles are much the same. I'm not so keen on blending entire layers and fiddling with opacity and painting through them, as I usually find it quicker to make feathered selections around the required areas of each image and drop them in as layers. The degree of feather changes the blend characteristics, along with changing the blend mode if needed. Works well for me, but you should do whatever works best for you, your software, and the image that you're trying to make. It comes with practice and experimentation. Sometimes, I just cheat and use PSP's HDR mode if it happens to suit the image (not always ideal). Photomatix is excellent if you want to invest in it.

my tip: dont overdo it.. they just look bad with default settings or totally over the top. not every image should be hdr

opus13 wrote in post #5437324
Don't overdo it.

Amen to that. There's a magazine in the UK that, good though it is, lets itself down a bit by regularly publishing overblown HDRs that stick out like the proverbial sore thumb. Someone once said to me "if someone who doesn't know anything about photography and editing looks at an image and right away knows that it was manipulated, then it's overdone."

They look overdone to me when there are halos around the image you wanted to enhance. It just doesn't look right (to me) when it's taken that far.

In interest of full disclosure I use photomatix but wanted to learn how to do it in PS. I came across this http://backingwinds.bl​ogspot.com …fessional-hdr-images.html
which seems to be producing what you're after. If you go the photomatix route I actually suggest you make your first few HDRs overblown and tone them down to get that more realistic look.

Later days,
Mike