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single image HDR from photomatix...thoughts?

 
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Sep 06, 2008 17:18 |  #1

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Sep 06, 2008 18:04 |  #2

Its not HDR if you use one image as it still has the same Low Dynamic Range of the single image. This is just a lighting effect image.

The picture itself needs more DOF, especially at the front, that stump in the middle up front is very soft.

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Sep 06, 2008 19:57 |  #3

I got something different when I compiled an HDR from this single image.


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Sep 06, 2008 20:34 as a reply to  @ MattMoore's post |  #4

I like the original. It has some serious 3rd-dimentional illusion going on.


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Sep 06, 2008 22:19 |  #5

Not to be a jerk, but the first one doesn't look like one and the second one looks overdone.


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Sep 06, 2008 22:26 |  #6

Reign wrote in post #6256313 (external link)
Not to be a jerk, but the first one doesn't look like one and the second one looks overdone.

I just showed him what mine looked like run through photomatix (using a single frame to create HDR, I didn't touch it after photomatix did its "thing")....ya' jerk :p.




  
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Sep 06, 2008 22:55 |  #7

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Sep 07, 2008 00:34 |  #8

You can certainly do a HDR from a single image. It will not be the best it can be. However, HDR doesn't add anything to an ho-hum image. The whole point of a HDR image is to show both the shadows and the highlights. There is no shadows or highlights in the original picture, increasing the range doesn't add anything.


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Sep 07, 2008 00:54 |  #9

I've never done HDR. I tried seeing what CS3 does... so I took your image... set exposure values -2, -1, 0, +1, and +2... then used the Merge to HDR function. Came out with a nasty looking picture with +1 and +2, so I unselected those... ended up with a very subtly change image from the original... so I adjusted levels and used the unsharpen filter.

This isn't HDR, then... but this is what I ended up with.


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