BrianKitts Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Came across these posts on DIGG today and thought I'd share....Not what comes to mind when you mention HDR to a viz guy.... but some sweet stuff all the same.... http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/ and.... http://srika.com/img/chicago_hdr_2007.html?source=rss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Thomas Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Whooooaahh!! Tonemapping overkill on the first site! Like most techniques, less is more. Always makes me smile how we spend ages getting our images to look like photographs, blowing out exteriors etc, and the photographers are doing the opposite and making their photographs look like renders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcl Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 There were some that were a bit too tweaked out, but there were also a lot of really nice ones. I'm a big fan of multiple exposure, HDR treatment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron-cds Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 it is becoming the “Bob Ross technique” of the photography. lol, I read this in one of the comments on the first site. Most of those hdr photos have very unrealistic lighting. I thought the whole point of multiple exposure photography was to get closer to what someone sees in real life. I like the second link, except for the daytime hdr shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Huh, ... gulp ... gulp... ,how did i miss this post. I think both sites are brilliant. Its almost as if the photographer/s are saying 'F the photography world, this works' and imo, it does. I have taken loads of hdr shots where the tone mapping didn't work, now i feel like re-doing them in this fashion. Brilliant post Brian!! thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcl Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Nice, Bob Ross...I am not growing out my hair though...lol Koper, your photos on your site are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 Thanx Magnus. Welkome to the site. There is only one HDR shot in it though, the windmill with the bridge infront of it. Here is one I quickly did. I don't fancy the sky, seems i need to take more than just 3 stops in 3 shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 image was to big for last post, hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcl Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Thanks AdriaaN. Nice perspective. The sky is a bit blown out, but nevertheless a cool shot. I shot this a few weeks ago. The whole block is going to be demolished soon so, I wanted to get a capture. 3xp, photomatix and pshop. It's a bit saturated, I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 BeeUtiFull! I like how you got the sky also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hi... I've got a fisheye lens (8mm) on an old Nikon Coolpix 5000 and a pan head that lets you adjust the focal point for 360-degree shots. I use it for 'normal' photography of rooms in houses for real estate and home builders. I use photomatrix pro to 'average' the photos into a single layered jpg and the lighting looks great. Now - I'd like to shoot HDRs. I have the hardware and the software. I use the program photomatrix to stitch my pan head photos together to get a 360-degree spherical and cylinderical shots. If doesn't support stitching HDRs. If I could get Photoshop CS2 (and I'm willing to upgrade to CS3 if this works) to stitch the photos for me, then I can make my 9 HDRs (I shoot 9 photos to make a cylinder pan) in Photomatrix and then stitch them in Photoshop. Does anyone have any ideas? If I can start making HDRs, I'll be happy to start sharing HDRs of Australia with everyone. Thanking you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 cs3 I think is gr8, but you have to calculate the nodal point for the lens otherwise cs3 have a difficult time stitching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hi Adriann, I have a marking guide on my pan head - align the camera HERE for a cylinder pan, or align it HERE for a spherical. The pan head manufacturer (Kaidan) made the guide specifically for that particular make and model of camera. Can you elaborate on 'calculating the nodal point'? I just googled some tutorials and CS2's PhotoMerge doesn't care about the focal length of the lens (8mm), field of view or anything. Thanking you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 there is allot of 'how to' tuts on the net. It basically comes down to setting the nodal for the lens so that your points of alignment on the edges of the image actually lines up exactly. The nodal point is the exact location in the lens where the light is flipped, you need to rotate the camera around that point, and not the base of the camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hi, I know how to do that on the camera - I guess I'm asking if Photoshop CS3 actually takes that into account. If so - that's great! Might go download the freebie tutorial and give it a whirl. Thanks for the info - I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandmanNinja Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Hi... According to the website below, PhotoShop CS3 can only accurately stitch photos taken with a fairly normal focal length lens (around 50mm): http://www.versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article.php?story=20070531000126728 PS3 is ONLY GOOD FOR stitching an equirectangular image. try to use that image as a VR and you will see that PS3 DOES NOT wrap it's blending algo... so you will always see a seam. the right side of the image is never blended to the left side so the shots are UNUSABLE for QTVR. and until PS3 fixes that - it is INFERIOR to PTGui. All of the other websites that I googled and surfed to pretty much had nice stitched panoramic images, but they were all equirectangular photos. PS3 (the demo at least) seems to freak out when I load my 8mm fisheye photos into it and run Edit -> Auto-Align - no matter what option I pick. My normal panoramic software manages to stitch 9 photos together in a few seconds, with no stitch errors (unless my camera was off a bit when I took the images). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted April 3, 2008 Author Share Posted April 3, 2008 I was kind of surprised this morning to see this thread still running.... I had forgotten about it. So what the heck, here's some more photography eye candy for you that I just came across. It's just play with a single long term exposure, as opposed to combining multiple exposures, but still pretty fun! http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-light-graffiti-pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcl Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 Thanks again AdriaaN. I really like the light painting shots, very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted April 3, 2008 Share Posted April 3, 2008 ah yes, graffiti with light very cool, but also very difficult Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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