Show us your HDR! Random HDR photo Thread.

[Iconindustries]

As i've just got into HDR and I'm quite addicted. I am willing to pick up tips from other users and thought if we piled all our HRD into one thread it would be great for beginners like me to see how others produce their images.
So to begin with, this is my go with HDR of my brothers cubby house. I used 0.0 -2 and +2 and blended them together with Photomatix and performed a little tweaking. At first my exported image was very blurry after tonemapping but i found a selection when importing the images into Photmatix where you can select to remove noise. That did the trick and the exported image came out nice and sharp. I tried out Noise Ninja but found better results from the noise remover in Photomatix.

So, show us your HDR. We'd love to see it.

[Herman]

Thanks for your HDR shot. I have just downloaded FDRTools Basic. When weather is improving next days I will set the G1 to bracketing and take a few shots.
I'm give a try anyhow.

[David Stringer]

Heres some of my recent ones. The first is a 7 exposive autobracket the second 2 processed in photomatix as a single RAW file.

[cstevens]

I have recently had a play with HDR and I currently have 2 sets of HDR up on my website. I love doing them and have actually sold several large HDR prints to a local gallery.

For me, its a bit of a fad, nice to know how to do it for impact, but so far havent really used it to produce real world shots. When my wedding season kicks off more, I may try using it for dark church shots.

http://www.cm-photos.co.uk/events/power/

http://www.cm-photos.co.uk/events/hdr/

A few teasers though for you.

[cstevens]

David - LOVE the first one of yours on the pier!

[bebrox]

7 x autobracket exposures using 14-45mm on Panasonic G1;

[ahuyevshi]

All Great shots... I have been doing some HDR as well... Will contribute when I get home.

[BillN]

I don't understand this HDR stuff

what's the purpose of it?

[slau]

I find the bracketing feature of the G1/GH1 too limiting. It will be nice that we can have bracketing of at least + - 1EV instead of just 2/3 EV. The slow writing/processing speed make the job even harder. I usually go back to my Canon system for bracketing or HDR task.

Anyway, I use Photomatix Pro and seem to use the Lightroom Plug-in most of the time to generate the HDR images from my bracketed raw files. I am still trying to get my HDR images to look as 'natural' as possible. Here are few samples with my GH1:

[Amin Sabet]

Bill, some scenes contain a wide range of light, from very dark to very bright. Our vision is capable of seeing detail in both the shadows and the highlights, because our eyes and brain are constantly adjusting as we shift our vision from one part of the scene to another. However, such a scene may exceed the ability of a given lens-sensor unit on a camera to capture both shadow and highlight detail in a single exposure.

HDR is the process by which a person makes two or more different exposures, for example a long exposure to capture shadow detail and a short exposure to capture highlight detail, and combines them to make a single image containing detail in both the dark areas and the bright areas. In combining the component images to make a resulting image, one goes through a process called tonemapping, which refers to the assigning of tones, for example deciding how bright the captured shadows ought to be in the resulting image. It is this tonemapping which determines how "natural" the final result will be.

Tonemapping and HDR are sometimes used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. Any time a person reassigns tones, for example by adjusting curves/contrast, one is tonemapping. HDR only refers to situations in which a person uses multiple exposures to capture a range of dark and bright which would otherwise exceed the ability of a camera-lens unit to capture in a single exposure. So HDR requires tonemapping, but tonemapping doesn't necessarily mean HDR.