fotogk Loc: Tuftonboro, NH

colors look really vivid

bunuweld Loc: Arizona

Nice tour and pictures. Appreciate the moderate HDR use without "overcooking". Although GoofyNewfie didn't explain how to make the link clickable, you probably noticed that removing the "s" from "https" does the trick.

melequus Loc: Apex, NC

I, too, enjoyed your work. Last time I was at the Grand Canyon was in 1971 and all my photos have faded. A well-done program!

Neweagle Loc: Wales UK

Slide show well worth a look, some really nice images, I guess you cant control the hazy weather, which cost you some detail, but the video works and captures the vastness of one of the worlds greatest sites... :)

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Jerry,

Some were on a tripod and some were hand held. The software aligns the handheld shots as long as they are reasonably close in composition.

I was learning. Each picture has at least three exposures. I didn't count, but I think there are about 30 or 40 pictures. All were shot RAW. Part of the motivation came when Google dropped the price of the Nik plug-in suite so far I couldn't resist.

My camera, a Sony RX100, will bracket shots plus and minus .7 f stops automatically. So, many were done that way to see what came of that. For a few I did 5 exposures on a tripod manually so I got -2, -1, 0, +1, +2. I also shot a few, hand held at -1, 0, +1.

I organized everything in Lightroom. I put the mulitple exposures of each photo in a stack. When I chose a picture I would send the 3 or 5 shot group of RAWs to Nik HDR Effects Pro 2. There, the shots were aligned, "joined" and displayed for adjustment. After a couple adjustments I found I was making the same adjustments, so saved a preset. Nik sends the HDR product back to Lightroom as a .tiff, which I put on the top of its stack. Once I had the preset, the processing of each HDR picture took about a minute.

With a collection of about 30 or 40 I liked, and a few video clips that I liked from the same camera, I was ready to make the show. I selected all the .tiffs and exported copies to a project specific folder as .dng files. Then I selected the video clips and exported copies to the same folder.

Premier Elements makes videos out of anything including photos, except tiffs, which is why I used .dng for the Lightroom export to Premier Elements. It will even take a batch of RAW images directly, with out any prepossessing. If they are still photos, I guess we call it a "video slide show". In this case I mixed a little video with the stills so perhaps I should call it a "composite slide show". With all the photos in the same folder, I opened a new project in Premier Elements, imported all the media in the folder and arranged them on the "timeline". Each still photo got a little "pan and zoom", known as the Ken Burns effect, with an easy to use built in tool

The sound track from the few video clips was wind noise so I deleted it. I looked for music in video soundtrack sources and could not find what I wanted. I bought a .mps track at Amazon for 90 cents and emailed the musician for permission. After he watched a sample, he gave it to me when I agreed to put is website in the credits.

The last step is creating the product, in this case a Vimeo export.

There are other ways to make slide shows. The one I've seen most often is Microsoft PowerPoint. In today's world I want to "share" at Vimeo or YouTube, so I like Premier Elements better.

Bill

Neweagle Loc: Wales UK

Thanks for the process info Bill,

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I'm thrilled! So far this morning, you've given me 190 plays on Vimeo. In my two years of learning video, I've never had anything close to that in even a month.

My personal record on Vimeo is a "documentary" about my brother re-creating a revolutionary war rifle. It took a year to get 800 plays. It is mostly video, but has 7 stop action photos of the actual firing of the gun. With photos in it, maybe it has interest here?

http://vimeo.com/36973087

Bill

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you.

When your there, the eye and mind sees vividly. My success at "accurate" photos are a little less vivid. My purpose of the HDR was to provide just enough extra punch to trick my brain into thinking I was seeing some of the same real life vividness.

Bill

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you.

Bill

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you.

I was buying Nikons and Kodachrome then!

I hope you can go again and get fresh photos. My guess is that you may be as old as I am. Grand Canyon NP has made big changes the last few years, with some paved paths and bus routes. It is one of those places that no matter how you get around, there is room and a way to do it.

Bill

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you. I'm looking for the right place and subjects to do a little more cooking. HDR is almost too easy with the Nik software. I don't how it measures up to the more talked about Photomatrix.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thanks.

Someday I may get to the bottom. It has to be impressive.

Bill

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, Colorado

Very nice! I really enjoyed it. :thumbup:

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you Bruce!

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you! (I have a PacBrake!)