HDR Photography

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Wannabe

To anyone who is into photography and shoots HDR photos. What are your favorite subjects to shoot? How do you find your master setting? Post your personal best HDR photo and possibly give some advice to how you got your shot!

Jun 29 2009 5:41PM

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@th1337

Anything with lots of texture is nice. I prefer landscapes, personally. As long as the HDR effect isn't overdone. 90% of HDR photos I see look like absolute shit because people overdo it.

Jun 29 2009 5:43PM

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Billek

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I took this with my cellphone.

Jun 29 2009 5:47PM

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Jordan

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Well, I'l be honest I really don't like HDR but I'll try and help ya out a bit.

First, of the ones that I have seen, I really like nature HDR, seascapes to be exact.

Next there isn't a master setting for HDR you take pictures, on a tripod, at different Exposure Values. Basically what you're doing is creating a "perfect" picture, you get the best of the shadows combined with the best of the highlights.

I could type out everything for you but, it would be much easier to post this link haha:

http://range.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/modern-hdr-photography-a-how-to-or-saturday-morning-relaxation/

Goes through everything from dynamic ranging to actually doing it in Photo shop.

Hope that helps some what

Jun 29 2009 5:48PM

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BJacksonPhoto

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Wannabe

Thanks to those who replied to my post especially Jordan.

Jordan, I actually read about that site and he says you have a master setting under the title Do you really need HDR? and I took a few sample shots around my house and put them together with photomatrix but the only satisfaction I got out of the photo was the reflection on the car I photographed. I also could not get the clouds to flow. Any advice to what I am doing wrong?

Jun 29 2009 7:46PM

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no_steeze

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the only time i find HDR necessary and super helpful is when you're shooting some land and some sky. generally the brightness of the sky will make the land almost pitch black so if you do hdr you can get the land bright as well as the sky and you have a good picture

an HDR shot of a basic subject won't look awesome, i've seen very few HDR shots of flowers that actually look good, but landscapes they look awesome and can be really helpful to getting all parts of the picture exposed

what you can also do is take a raw image and develop it in photoshop under 3 exposures and then combine those, it makes it so that you only need to take 1 picture

Jun 29 2009 7:52PM

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BJacksonPhoto

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Alright, I'll have to try that out
Once you put it into photoshop how do you develop it into 3 exposures?

Jun 29 2009 8:04PM

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