PHOTOS PLEASE

[Ryoki]

Aha

[MaCaBr3]

Huh. That's a strange effect you've got going on there, Macabre. I think i like

Actually I don't actually remember how I did this...I think I converted a single RAW to HDR, then processed it with Lucisart (tnx FanaticX) and fiddled around with layer's soft light and opacity and levels and shit. Then again, I'm not even sure I even converted it to HDR. What I can say, that it wasn't a HDR shot, it was a single exposure.

[MaCaBr3]

Still don't really understand it
Do you set up your camera on a tripod and take several pictures, each with different exposures and then mess about with em in PS or do you simply flip a special HDR switch on your camera?

I like very much to take pictures, but i just don't know enough about it

Well see it this way: your eye has much higher dynamic range than a camera. That's why when you look at a sunset with your own eyes, you can see all the the range of colors from dark to light in one single view. I think it it's something like 10 000 to 1. A camera on the other hand only has a dynamic range of 500 to 1.

So you can never photograph a glorious sunset like how you see it with your own eyes with one single photo. Either you expose on the sun wich makes everything more silhouet and lots of shadows or you expose on the beach, the sea or anything else which will make the sun overexposed. So what you do with HDR is try to capture the whole dynamic range of what you see in different photos and merge them all together to have a high dynamic range photo.

So if you take 3 exposures, you're gonna underexpose to have detail in the brightest areas, overexpose to have details in the dark areas and have a normal exposure to compensate for both. If you merge them all together with a software like Photomatix or CS3, you'll get a HDR picture which you need to tone map, to find a good balance between you're 3 exposures so that you'll have enough detail in the darker and light areas of your photo.

Another effect of making HDR pictures is that the software lets it make cartoony/artsy if you want, which is kinda not the point of HDR, but it's like a nice side effect. I never actually managed to get an nice artsy/cartoony HDR because I don't know really know which setting to use to get it that way.

[Ryoki]

Ahhh, thanks.

[ForM]

It was something to do.

[+JuggerNaut+]

very nice

[Doombrain]

[saturn]

Very nice you two

[vileliquid1026]

You should sell calendars ;P

Bravo, though.

[seremtan]

nice

btw can anyone suggest a decent lens to go with a canon 400d for £300 or less?

[MaCaBr3]

Sigma 28-70 2.8

nice pics guys btw

[seremtan]

i'll look into that

meanwhile, from my cheap POS, with a little help from corel photopaint:

[Doombrain]

Fuck sake, blown highlights and clipped blacks.

[Doombrain]

[seremtan]

Fuck sake, blown highlights and clipped blacks.

the highlights are my shit camera, the clipped blacks and bloom are deliberate

[+JuggerNaut+]

it's like someone took the saran wrap off the lens.

[Doombrain]

Fuck sake, blown highlights and clipped blacks.

the highlights are my shit camera, the clipped blacks and bloom are deliberate

yeah yeah

[creep]

I liked the 1st version better /shrug

[Doombrain]

bet you did

[PhoeniX]

nice

btw can anyone suggest a decent lens to go with a canon 400d for £300 or less?

To take pictures of what? For landscape/wide stuff there's the Sigma 10-20mm which is within budget, slightly.

http://camerapricebuster.co.uk/prod242.html

[seremtan]

the highlights are my shit camera, the clipped blacks and bloom are deliberate

yeah yeah

lol, you just made it look the way it did before i fucked about with it

[Doombrain]

I just made it look 0-0-0 black and 255-255-255, which is impossible for your POS camera to capture.

So you're lying.

Also. If you think yours looks good, time for an eye test mr cataracts.

[corsair]

its not only impossible for his POS camera to capture, its also an impossible reality.

[PhoeniX]

Also. If you think yours looks good, time for an eye test mr cataracts.

I tend to find that until you actualy play with Photoshop you don't realise just how bad the contrast is in most photos straight from the camera.

And because I'm bored here's my version:

[Doombrain]

its not only impossible for his POS camera to capture, its also an impossible reality.

Not really. Although absolute black is almost impossible earths surface, all colour perception is relative and a damn site more dynamic than the picture in question.