Saranac Lake and environs
Feb 3, 2014 21:14:50 #
Here are a few from this weekend. Hope you like them. All comments, as always, are welcome.
Inside covered bridge.
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Inside the palace was a dragon
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Zoomed during exposure
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Feb 3, 2014 21:17:51 #
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Feb 3, 2014 21:30:58 #
rlaugh wrote:
Love #1!!
Thank you for your compliment. I shot the inside of the bridge exposed for the walls and ceiling. That completely blew out the opening which had outside light. I then exposed for the outside which made the inside completely dark. I then selected the outside that was properly exposed and moved it to the over exposed section of the interior shot. Voila! Both areas of the photo properly exposed. No HDR needed.
Feb 3, 2014 21:31:46 #
Bruce R wrote:
Awsome I really like #1, good job.
Thank you so much. It was a fun photo to put together. Gotta love PS.
Feb 3, 2014 22:15:06 #
ebrunner wrote:
Thank you for your compliment. I shot the inside of the bridge exposed for the walls and ceiling. That completely blew out the opening which had outside light. I then exposed for the outside which made the inside completely dark. I then selected the outside that was properly exposed and moved it to the over exposed section of the interior shot. Voila! Both areas of the photo properly exposed. No HDR needed.
Wow great work, you did a nice job! One day I may understand post processing to that degree, to understand what I've got.
Feb 3, 2014 22:21:50 #
NKN_RKY wrote:
Wow great work, you did a nice job! One day I may understand post processing to that degree, to understand what I've got.
I did a fair amount of pp on the first photo. (nothing you can't learn to do yourself) The second shot is almost exactly as it came out of the camera. The third shot has no pp work done. I zoomed from wide to tele while the picture was exposing (20 sec exposure I think). The trick is to be very careful and not shake things around too much while you are turning the zoom ring.
Feb 3, 2014 22:26:22 #
Feb 4, 2014 02:06:45 #
ebrunner wrote:
Thank you for your compliment. I shot the inside of the bridge exposed for the walls and ceiling. That completely blew out the opening which had outside light. I then exposed for the outside which made the inside completely dark. I then selected the outside that was properly exposed and moved it to the over exposed section of the interior shot. Voila! Both areas of the photo properly exposed. No HDR needed.
Essentially, that IS what True HDR is all about!! You captured what appears to be the full dynamic range!
Feb 4, 2014 06:37:42 #
Wahawk wrote:
Essentially, that IS what True HDR is all about!! You captured what appears to be the full dynamic range!
You know, I was thinking the same thing myself. Photomatix has an "exposure merge" setting. Essentially that is what I did. I took what worked from two photos and combined them. I like HDR, but I don't like the funky tones that they come up with all the time. I might have to spend more time looking at non tonemapping HDR processing. Hmmmm. Thanks for your observation.
Feb 4, 2014 10:43:01 #
ebrunner wrote:
You know, I was thinking the same thing myself. Photomatix has an "exposure merge" setting. Essentially that is what I did. I took what worked from two photos and combined them. I like HDR, but I don't like the funky tones that they come up with all the time. I might have to spend more time looking at non tonemapping HDR processing. Hmmmm. Thanks for your observation.
Those that use tone-mapping are really taking HDR to another level, removing it from the "realistic" into a more 'artsy' category. There are some photos that look good with the extra tone-mapping, but for me the 'best' overall results from "True HDR" are the ones that you cannot tell!! You really have to look at a 'true HDR' photo to realize that the 'dynamic range' is greater than what the camera can actually capture.
Then again, there are images that, in my opinion, just beg to be tone-mapped to the extreme.
Feb 4, 2014 19:43:46 #
Feb 4, 2014 19:45:26 #
Wahawk wrote:
Those that use tone-mapping are really taking HDR ... (show quote)
I've done a lot of playing with Photomatix. There are times when "over cooked" looks just right. I agree with you.
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