First HDR attempt C&C welcome: I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it, I set up my tripod and took three shots...

Stinson222 Loc: White Bear lake, MN

I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it,
I set up my tripod and took three shots,
exposure set a -4, 0 and +4,, and I used Lightroom CC "photo merge"
to combine them.

Comments? Please download for full effect

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Carlo Loc: Maryland, NW.Chesapeake Bay

Stinson222 wrote:

I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it,
I set up my tripod and took three shots,
exposure set a -4, 0 and +4,, and I used Lightroom CC "photo merge"
to combine them.

Comments? Please download for full effect

Very Nice in download view...
8-)

MtnMan Loc: ID

MUCH nicer in download. What's that about?

Could you post the zero EV original for comparison? Wondering what effect the HDR had with that wide a range of EV.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

Well done Stinson.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

wow...+/-4 seems a bit extreme. I'm usually in the +/- 1 range...maybe +/- 2 in extremely contrasty situations.

pixbyjnjphotos Loc: Apache Junction,AZ

The download is beautiful. Not over done. Just great color and focus. I really like it. Keep up the great work and have a GREAT DAY!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

My exif reader says srgb color space, which surprised me, because usually when you see a very washed out/drab thumbnail and a beautiful download, it's because the image was not saved in srgb.

At any rate, I'd never know is HDR, but then I rarely dabble in that. Very nicely photographed, however it was done :)

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Stinson222 wrote:

I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it,
I set up my tripod and took three shots,
exposure set a -4, 0 and +4,, and I used Lightroom CC "photo merge"
to combine them.

Comments? Please download for full effect

Those are very high numbers, but it worked out beautifully (very natural looking), good for you!!

Stinson222 Loc: White Bear lake, MN

ok, MtnMAn asked for the (0) Exp of the three photos used in the HDR and here is is,, along with the HDR photo.
and this time I made sure I output them from Lightroom as sRGB, it seems that I may have had my output in Lightroom set as "ProPhoto RGB"
before,

and YES, it seems setting the output to sRGB makes the preview better..
THANKS for the tip

The first one below here is the Zero exposure setting, and the second one is the HDR of the three photos,,

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jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon

Very nice image. Was the dynamic range so big that you needed HDR?

Jack

Stinson222 Loc: White Bear lake, MN

Hi Jack,,
not really,, It was indoors, and I didn't want to use flash
so I just thought I might try an experiment to see if HDR would work.
In reality, a little fill flash or and extra light source like a soft light box would have done the same thing.

But, I really wanted to see what the HDR thing was all about, and I'm excited to try some more, on some outdoor scenes.

THANKS for the comments. I seem to learn something new each time I post out here

joe west Loc: Taylor, Michigan

Stinson222 wrote:

I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it,
I set up my tripod and took three shots,
exposure set a -4, 0 and +4,, and I used Lightroom CC "photo merge"
to combine them.

Comments? Please download for full effect

:thumbup:

photophly Loc: Old Bridge NJ

Stinson222 wrote:

I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it,
I set up my tripod and took three shots,
exposure set a -4, 0 and +4,, and I used Lightroom CC "photo merge"
to combine them.

Comments? Please download for full effect

The download is beautiful.

Tresed47 Loc: Pennsylvania USA

Stinson222 wrote:

I saw this Christmas Cactus blooming in my dining room, and I thought I might try my first HDR shots with it,
I set up my tripod and took three shots,
exposure set a -4, 0 and +4,, and I used Lightroom CC "photo merge"
to combine them.

Comments? Please download for full effect

Excellent :thumbup: