my old fuji, you could do HDR but you would need a tripod like most every camera out there, but with my canon i can shoot all 3 exposures at same time so no tripod needed..

heres some shots i did:

The hdr is no special settings, just the base bringing them together in Cs3 and then using a plugin to tone map without any special options...

the dirty G with leaves in the lips..



the work van..



some trees....



clouds...



and a plant...



now i cant wait till my 6" lip Work DH's come next week :-D, and the Volk Time Attacks on the Evo8MR and the new wheels for the TL!!

Riley

 

hdr looks good and that lip is ridiculous, love the g

 

oh btw Imma need to hit you up for some works for my bros g soon.

 

newb question, was this done in photoshop or on the camera? what type of cannon do you have?

 

you take several pictures changing exposure on an SLR camera (400D i just got)

then you can A: use aftermarket program, or B: (what i did) use photoshop CS3 extended and the HDR function to merge the photo's and create HDR (high dynamic range) photo. from there i use an aftermarket (non adobe) plugin to tone map and bring even more life to the picture..

running 4 gig's of ram, it takes me 30 seconds to do the merging and tonemapping.. with my old laptop running 1 gig it took like 4 minutes.... i dont even wanna think about doing it on something less than 1 gig Ram.

riley

 

I don't know if I'm asking something that's super obvious, but what exactly does doing the HDR process do to the picture? Is it crisper...more focused...more vibrant? I wikipediaed HDR, but didn't really understand it.

 

HDR is high dynamic range..

basically in a normal shot you only get crisp midtones and some areas are overexposed and others underexposed..

i.e. with the Van picture.. the sky is overexposed and not clear and the grass is underexposed and not seen..

you take a picture bright to grab the grass.. light to grab the clouds and regular to grab the van/etc.. then you merge the photo's getting rid of the under/over exposed areas.. this is HDR..

then i took the photo and tone mapped it to give the extra little details and making the picture look strange.

here is the G35:

orginal picture youd get with camera: notice the dark areas of picture.. where u cant make out certain bushes and such. also the side of the car is far too dark


then you HDR it..(of course taking 2 more pictures added to above and merge) now look at the dark spots of old pic and you'll see how u can now see them. and light spots are overexposed


then i use tonemapping to make it "pop" you can go radical with this like the last picture.. and make everything look crazy.. or just go normal like i did below..


voila!.lol


crazy radical tonemapping of HDR photo.

 

what was your ev set to?

 

You take multiple exposures. So you go from -5 to 0 to +5 for example in steps to get about 10 photos in that range, the program then takes the details from all the photos and combines them into one photo. Then you make adjustments on that one photo to get it where you want it.

 

Nice!