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Old 02-18-2008, 03:13 PM
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1st attempt at HDR shots




 
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Old 02-18-2008, 04:33 PM
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Hmm, your blue levels seem to be really high...

What shutter speeds did you use? Any filters? (polarized? infrared?) I'm thinking your spread may be too far apart in the pieces you used to compose...

End up with something like this:
 
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Old 02-18-2008, 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by thepawn
Hmm, your blue levels seem to be really high...

What shutter speeds did you use? Any filters? (polarized? infrared?) I'm thinking your spread may be too far apart in the pieces you used to compose...

End up with something like this:


NOW that is a clean HRD
 
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Old 02-18-2008, 07:13 PM
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not sure. used my friends digital slr and we just took one shot at every shutter speed, did not take anything else. the i was just playing around using different ones and trying. Obviously i have allot of work to do to get them to look like yours, which are sick. I used a bunch of different pics. I took probably 20 shots at different speeds and then combined randomly 3 to 7 of them. I am going to try and do it better tonight. what setting do you use? what do you mean by spread? like -2 to +2? what should i use?
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Old 02-19-2008, 12:30 AM
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Make sure you turn off the othe auto-exposure settings your camera may have...

There's a great tutorial over here how to do it with a Canon EOS and Photoshop:
http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/inde...ake-HDR-images
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...amic-range.htm

-2 to +2 is good start.
 
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Old 02-19-2008, 12:32 AM
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Damn...all the pics are cool. I would love to be able to do that.
 

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Old 02-20-2008, 07:43 AM
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another attempt.
I am going to shoot some more this weekend and make sure the auto exposure is off.
 
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Old 02-20-2008, 04:15 PM
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another attempt.
I am going to shoot some more this weekend and make sure the auto exposure is off.

Now that one is looking pretty good... they usually almost always need a little tweaking in photoshop aside from the merge itself.
 
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Old 02-20-2008, 04:41 PM
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thanks, i exposures where much future apart on that one comparted to the others.
 
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Old 02-20-2008, 09:25 PM
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Yeah, it shows...the only thing is it looked like the camera moved a bit...one of the exposures is not lined up (look at the streetlamps) which is making it a little blurry looking.
 
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Old 02-21-2008, 08:31 AM
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yeah it was very windy and we were freezing our ***** off so probably shaking a little when we took the pics.
 



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