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Yes, it's in San Diego CA. But quadwing observation was good. It's a place called 'Old Town' so it kind of has a look like New Mexico.

tt350z wrote in post #9682296
Since he's from CA and there's a CA flag on the pole. I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say that it's somewhere in CA

Great picture.

potatowitz wrote in post #9682307
Here is one from Grand Canyon I took a few months ago...

zague wrote in post #9682326
I usually try to mix up my HDR work by sometimes making it look natural and other times like a painting. It's whats fun for me. To me trees look awsome in HDR so I usually bring up the color saturation a bit and bring some halo around them to to pop them out. This particular HDR came from 3 different exposures (-2,0,+2) using a one RAW file. HDR kind of messes people skins so what I do is import one of the original pics (usually the '0') in PS and mask in about 50% back into the HDR. I kind of did this one pretty quick but will probably do it again and bring down some of the reds and blues.

yes the greenery looks cool in HDR. HDR brings out details on shadows and details in bldg structures too. HDR clouds are super cool too. good job, man.

you ever checked out Dave Hill? He has awesome PP photo treatment too... very graphic and artsy.

zague wrote in post #9682361
Great picture.

bet its gonna look good in HDR no? hehehe

Yes, I have played around with the "Dave Hill Look" and it's a great way to do portraits but it's hard to achieve with regular lighting conditions. Below is one of my results... be kind... I've only played with this for about a week and don't have any fancy lighting equipment on my T1i. But I will keep practicing until I can get close enough. If anyone has some tips let us know..

PhilF wrote in post #9682661
yes the greenery looks cool in HDR. HDR brings out details on shadows and details in bldg structures too. HDR clouds are super cool too. good job, man.

you ever checked out Dave Hill? He has awesome PP photo treatment too... very graphic and artsy.

quadwing wrote in post #9682312
I am SO blind since I missed that, hahahaha. Are you a pilot?


Also, does anyone have any HDR’s of the Very Large Array? Or something similar to it? I need a new desktop background!

Not a pilot, I'm a maintainer.

That pic was from my F-15 ride.

zague wrote in post #9683193
Yes, I have played around with the "Dave Hill Look" and it's a great way to do portraits but it's hard to achieve with regular lighting conditions. Below is one of my results... be kind... I've only played with this for about a week and don't have any fancy lighting equipment on my T1i. But I will keep practicing until I can get close enough. If anyone has some tips let us know..

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good job... yes I started doing this too... the trick is the lighting to get that effect.

here's mine.
before and after

Good start... below are the URLs from where I started to learned about this look. hopefully they will be of help.

http://www.scottkelby.​com/blog/2008/archives​/1094
http://www.scottkelby.​com/blog/2009/archives​/2968
http://www.flickr.com …iscuss/72157594​577686705/

PhilF wrote in post #9683275
good job... yes I started doing this too... the trick is the lighting to get that effect.

here's mine.
before and after

Yokohama, Japan

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zague wrote in post #9683418
Good start... below are the URLs from where I started to learned about this look. hopefully they will be of help.

http://www.scottkelby.​com/blog/2008/archives​/1094
http://www.scottkelby.​com/blog/2009/archives​/2968
http://www.flickr.com …iscuss/72157594​577686705/

cool links man. thanks.

My first HDR! Am I doing it right?

Looks like a good start.. Was this from 3 different pics?

quadwing wrote in post #9684331
My first HDR! Am I doing it right?

zague wrote in post #9684688
Looks like a good start.. Was this from 3 different pics?

Yeah, it was. A really really underexposed one, and then a normally exposed one, then overexposed--except I had to align them.

Also, there were these weird black dots that appeared in the pics. I masked the HDR, and then dabbed the underexposed part with the brush until it went away, then finally I masked the underexposed image to get the overexposed to get it back to normal.

Nice work.. you will learn that HDRs create a lot of noise in pictures. so you will need to run a filter to remove it specially in dark colors and skies/clouds and then mask in anything in detail that might gotten blurred.

quadwing wrote in post #9684743
Yeah, it was. A really really underexposed one, and then a normally exposed one, then overexposed--except I had to align them.

Also, there were these weird black dots that appeared in the pics. I masked the HDR, and then dabbed the underexposed part with the brush until it went away, then finally I masked the underexposed image to get the overexposed to get it back to normal.

zague wrote in post #9684778
Nice work.. you will learn that HDRs create a lot of noise in pictures. so you will need to run a filter to remove it specially in dark colors and skies/clouds and then mask in anything in detail that might gotten blurred.

What do you think I should run to get rid of the weird black stuff?

Also, just checked the Canon Repair Site for my camera’s status:

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