First try at HDR and Stitching (Deadly to 56k)

[RedPhoenix]

First try. I notice some stuff I could of done better, but oh well. Im pretty proud for my first attempt. I know HDR isnt for everyone, but after doing them, you really appreciate what you can do with this feature. Stitches are just cool.

HDR's - Most are just 3 images
Stitches - resized to 1600 x (xxx) sorry, anything smaller would be awkward to look at.





















Oh and one of my car for fun.




Comments, constructive criticism welcomed.

Matt

[Venom_5]

what program are u using for the HDR merging?

[RedPhoenix]

Originally Posted by Venom_5

what program are u using for the HDR merging?

Camera - Canon S5 Ultra-Zoon w/ Tripod
Program - Adobe Photoshop CS3

[Venom_5]

ah.....well can i just say that Photoshop (both CS2 and CS3) SUCK at HDR, and i highly recommend you try Photomatix

after you Merge & Tone Map in Photomatix, then save the img as a JPEG or w/e and open it in Photoshop CS3 to do the rest of the work .... thats what i do, and the results are much better IMO

for everything else, Photoshop is awesome

[-SCWEET1-]

Looking very nice, I just started messing with my PS yesterday.....

[Durrby]

Nice shots Matt.

Now who wants to send me a copy of PS?

[Venom_5]

Originally Posted by Durrby

Nice shots Matt.

Now who wants to send me a copy of PS?

pay for my airfare to FL and i will bring you CS3 or CS2

[Durrby]

Originally Posted by Venom_5

pay for my airfare to FL and i will bring you CS3 or CS2

sadly thats cheaper

[midnightmach]

IMO HDR doesnt work well in pictures of cars...

Oh yea your shots look great though

[Venom_5]

my boi Casey (with the white R33) took some great HDR pics from the meet last Sunday .... i think they worked well, even though cars were the subjects

examples:






more can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teckmethos/

some work out incredible, some work out with too many colors & reflections (imagine that!)

[Rdizzle]

what is HDR?
Sorry if i'm a noob

[RedPhoenix]

Those look nice Venom. I think the HDR looks best in scenery purposes. The bike looks nice, but anything with people, they look orange lol


Basically taking 3 or more pictures with different exposures. Then you tie them together. That makes a 32bit image (compared to a 16bit normal picture) which is full of colors. You can edit it to make them surreal or actually completely "perfect". But you must make it back into a 16bit image for saving purposes.

[DAMON]

theyd look better if all of those cars cleaned their tires up

nice shots matt, looks really good for your first attempt! I think they came out great in cs3, Ive never had too much of a problem with it- I guess Ill check out the photomatrix thing too. Im sure my brother knows about it, hes a mad good photographer.

[Venom_5]

yeah, i got yelled at by some Pro Photographers for using Photoshop on my first HDR project, they gave me a copy of Photomatix: http://www.hdrsoft.com/

of course, it may or may not be a legal copy >.<

[DAMON]

eh I dunno, my brother has never heard of it... Ive never had trouble with potoshop.

Anyway, Matt, lets see those dubs