HDR Tutorial - New and Improved for 2008!
I hope this tutorial describing my evolving HDR techniques proves useful to you! I receive a lot of emails from people who stumble across my photography asking how I do this. Rather than sending a super-long response, I made this little tutorial because I was feeling particularly open-source one day. I keep this blog and try to post one interesting picture per day. About 75% of my work is HDR, so if you hang out on StuckInCustoms.com, I’ll do my best to keep fresh images for you to see every day!
Also, many of you come here JUST to swipe my Photomatix Coupon Code - it is “StuckInCustoms” and here is the discount link. The nice people there were nice enough to give my fans a discount code, so I am happy to share it since I believe in their product.
My Tutorials - HDR and Textures
This tutorial below on HDR is free. Free as a bird… It has helped thousands of people, and I hope it helps you too!
I have a second tutorial on textures that is over a gigabyte with a video and included textures. You can get to that tutorial by clicking here.
What is HDR?
HDR is short for High Dynamic Range. It is a software technique of taking either one image or a series of images, combining them, and adjusting the contrast ratios to do things that are virtually impossible with a single aperture and shutter speed. Most of the images in “Your Top 100 Favorites” are HDR, so you can take a look there if you want to see more examples than in this tutorial.
I will post a few interesting HDR photographs that I have taken that people seem to like. This first image below is actually hanging in the Smithsonian Institution in D.C. and many of the others are represented by Getty. I think this goes to show how mainstream and accepted HDR can be, if the technique is properly applied.
I’m a huge defender and believer of utilizing HDR as a technique for processing photos because I think it helps to evoke my actual memory of the scene. It’s just another tool that digital photographers can utilize depending on the situation. As opposed to the camera shutter and aperture, the human eye actually scans the scene at a very high rate of speed, constantly adjusting the pupil diameter to adjust the light and color levels. The pre-frontal cortex builds a quilt-like image that is comprised of millions of little bits, combined with neuron-connected memories of colors of objects. For example, when you look at a sunset, you can see all the colors of the clouds and sky, but you can also see all the colors of the trees and rocks in the foreground.
This is why, many times, people get home after a vacation and sigh at their pictures and tell their friends, “Well, it was much better when you were there.†So hey, it’s 2008, why not use software and the built-in ability of your camera to make a beautiful rendition of what YOU really saw? Some of us see life in HDR and some don’t. There’s a lot of HDR-hatahs out there. Just ignore them! Don’t hate the playa, hate the game… or tell them to get back in their dark rooms with their smelly hands.
Step 1 – Get some equipment on the sly so your spouse does not ask too many questions
What kind of equipment do you need? All you really need is a camera that has autobracketing. Autobracketing is the ability for your camera to take at least 3 pictures right after one another, each at different shutter speeds. If you are hunting around the menus on your camera now, just look for the words Autobracketing and perhaps some numbers like -2, 0, +2. If you have a DSLR camera, then you probably have this ability. I notice that some of the high-end consumer compact cameras have these as well.
What equipment do I have? People always ask me this, assuming, “Wow you must have a nice camera!” Well, I do have a nice camera (Nikon D2x), but many of my best pictures were taken earlier with a lesser camera (Nikon D70). I’m also not what I would consider a hardcore hardware guy - I use equipment to bend nature to my will, and I can do the same sort of work with just about any equipment. I’ve now got much higher-end equipment because I can now see the subtleties in the shots… somehow I can justify spending a lot of money for minor improvements in the shots.
I started with a Nikon D70. I now have a Nikon D2x. For lenses, I have 3 main lenses: Nikkor 28-70mm 2.8, Nikkor 70-200mm 2.8, and a Sigma 10-20mm 4.5. I think it’s a 4.5 -it’s right around there. See, if I was a hardware camera nerd, I would know that number, but I don’t. I have a big tripod with a silky smooth rotating fat Giotto head. I used to have a tiny tripod, but it was too shaky. You gotta have a solid tripod. What? You don’t want to carry around a tripod? Comon… if you are going out to shoot beautiful pictures, you better get serious. Also, if you have it over your shoulder or carry it in an aggressive way, it makes an effective weapon. As you can see, I go all over the world, often into sketchy areas, and a big tripod is often an effective deterrent. I carry it so much, I am very good at flipping it around and whipping it around my body like ninja nunchaku.
Step 2 – Get your Apple on (but it also works if you refuse to wear a black turtleneck and use a PC instead)
So here is a picture of my desktop before I launch all of these apps and melt my CPU. Speaking of which, Macs are great, and my Mac’s CPU does not melt - it handles all this stuff with reckless aplomb. I used to hate Macs and hate Mac people, but I’m a changed man. These things are great! Okay I digressed way to early in this tutorial.
What apps do you need? You can see down there that I have the essentials: Photoshop, Photomatix, and Lightroom. All of these are available for the PC - and for the remainder of this tutorial, the PC and Mac processes are the exact same. You can do without Lightroom, but if you are taking a lot of shots, it would behoove you to organize them. Sure, the rest of your life is a disorganized mess, but it doesn’t mean your photos have to be. I will of course talk more about these apps below.
If you buy Photomatix, be sure to use the discount coupon code “StuckInCustoms“, you’ll be set up. Hey, it’s better than a sharp stick in the eye. This is the same thing the priest said at my wedding.
Step 3 - Look at the world in HDR
It is key to choose good HDR candidates. What I look for are extreme levels in light in a given scene. Below is a selection of five photos that I shot in New York at Times Square. This is one of the pictures that Getty is currently representing, so I think it is a good example of how to take something mundane and turn it into something beautiful that can be mass market and selected by major agencies.
And here is another photographic-philosophical moment. Everyone shoots Times Square in New York. Everyone. Professionals, tourists, teenagers with grainy cell phone cameras, etc. Think about it and name your worldwide location: Paris, New York, Shanghai - these places are filled with thousands of photographers, many of them very very good, with incredible equipment and great training. YET, it is still quite difficult to get an “original” shot. You end up with just about the same shot that everyone or anyone else can get. So this New York picture is a good example. If you look at this one below, you will see it is a “decent” and “serviceable” shot. However, look at the final version right below that, and you can see how much more interesting and engaging it is.
The BEFORE shot, selected in Lightroom.
The AFTER shot, after running it through Photomatix and Photoshop:
Step 4 - Take your autobracketed pictures and prepare for the HDR
Set up your camera in Aperture Priority mode. Turn on Autobracketing. If you have 3 pics in the autobracket, set it up at -2, 0, +2. On my Nikon D2x, I usually take 5 pics at -2, -1, 0, 1, +2. I usually do 5 pictures in extreme light or extreme dark. The rest of the time, three pictures seems to be okay.
Below, you can see that I have selected 5 pictures from Times Square. You can also easily see that they are all taken at different shutter speeds. By the way, you can click on any picture to go its Flickr page, where you can then click on ALL SIZES then ORIGINAL at the top if you want to zoom in all the way.
Step 5 - Photomatix
Now it is time to fire up Photomatix and get crunk in the HDR house. Okay that was stupid.
Photomatix will take your 3+ shots and convert them into an HDR image. You can then tonemap the image and save it as a JPEG. I’ll take you through this process.
You can run Photomatix in a few ways:
1) To generate an single HDR from some autobraketed shots - GENERATE
2) To generate a bunch of different HDRs from a bunch of different autobracketed shots - BATCH
3) To generate an HDR from a single RAW file - SINGLE FILE CONVERSION
Let’s go over the first one in detail. I’ll mention the others later, but they are not too hard to figure out after you understand how the first one works.
When Photomatix is loaded up,you just see a menu. The newer version has a little control panel that has some of the most commonly used menu options. Either way, click Generate and refer to the screenshot below.
Choose the images you like then click OK. You will then see a second dialog. I have selected the most common choices that I make. That “Ghosting” area never seems to work so well for me, so I don’t check it. I have a better method for ghosting that I will show you later.
Click OK again and now your computer will churn like a farm of computers generating a single frame from a Pixar movie.
You will soon see a strange looking image on the screen. You are not done yet - not even close. That is an HDR image and you can’t really do anything with it until it is tonemapped. So, go up to HDR in the menu and select Tone Mapping. Now you will get a nice little dialog with all these fun gizmos and Willy Wonka-like controls.
Every picture is different. There is no “right way” to set these sliders. There is certainly a “wrong” way to do it, though. I am sure you have seen lots of crappy HDR images. Below, I paste an example of how you can really make your image look too funkadelic. Funkadelic is cool if that is what you want or you have a lot of druggie friends that like laser light shows and your mind-bending HDRs, but most people don’t like them. Actually, please don’t look at my old work. It’s a little over-the-top too… I cringe when I think about it. Just look at the newer stuff. Thank you kindly.
Above, you can see the options I selected. It’s way overdone. Below, you can see better selections. Here are a few things I do… although none of these are cast in stone. I like to crank up the White Point and Black Point bars to give it some punch and contrast. I also like to slide the Luminosity bar over to the right as far as I can before it looks too flat. The further right the Lum bar is, the less halo effect you get as well. If you don’t know what the “Halo” effect is, you will soon enough - especially with daytime shots. Another way to combat that is with the next few steps I go through below.
Once you have set everything up with the sliders, click PROCESS. Save the resulting image as a .jpg and then prepare to bring it into Photoshop.
Step 6 - Photoshop fun
What? You are not good at Photoshop? First you tell me you don’t like carrying tripods, and then you tell me you don’t like using Photoshop. How about this… Let’s get you a little bit out of your comfort zone, eh? That’s what good friends do right… push you to make yourself better. If you keep doing things you are comfortable with, then you are never going to improve and experience new things, right? So comon… get with it.. Photoshop is great fun.
First, if you are horrible at Photoshop, then I recommend you spend a little time watching Photoshop User TV. They have a weekly podcast and a bunch of old episodes you can catch up on. They go through about 3 examples per week - mini-tutorials. Over time you will get to know all the tools and how to use them. 95% of the tutorials you see on Photoshop TV will have nothing to do with HDR, but they will get you familiar with the tools. I use many many many tools in Photoshop to clean up and perfect my final images… you will get there too… just be patient and try to learn a few new things per week in Photoshop. If you learn 3 things a week, that’s over 150 things a year. It’s worth it!
As you might have seen, Photomatix is great, but it probably messed up parts of the image that you now need to repair.
This, briefly, is what we are gonna do. a) import 3 images to make 3 layers - the .jpg HDR you just made, the original RAW, and the darkest RAW. b) repair the blown-out areas with the correct areas from the dark layer and c) repair the ghosty cars and people with the real cars and real people from the first RAW file.
Below, you can see I am importing one of the original 5 pictures. The dialog you see there is the RAW importer for Photoshop CS3. It is very nice because it has these wonderful sliders. You can see my settings - how I increased the Fill Light, increased the Blacks, increased the Clarity and the Vibrance. You can adjust yours as need be. In many ways, this new RAW importer can make a regular image look a lot like an HDR. It’s not as good as Photomatix, but it is a great improvement over previous RAW importers.
Okay, in this next screenshot, if you look over on the layers, you will see there are 3 of them. TOP LAYER - the cool HDR we just made in Photomatix. MIDDLE LAYER - the DARKEST of the 5 original images. BOTTOM LAYER - the MIDDLE exposure of the original 5. The current layer showing is the 2nd layer. You can see why I chose this one - all of the lighted ads are very sharp and readable, whereas in all the other shots, including the HDR version, they are all jumbled and unreadable.
As you can also see, I have the AUTO ALIGN layers dialog up. I am using that to make sure all 3 layers line up correctly. This is a CS3 option. If you have CS2, you will have to do it yourself.
Also, I am going to throw something at you here called MASKING. This is a really valuable thing to know when cleaning up HDRs. Essentially, what you are doing is taking the TOP LAYER - the HDR layer, and then “punching through” to see the layers beneath. If you look closely at the layers on the right in the screenshot below, you can see that I have created a LAYER MASK for the TOP LAYER. If you see those little black and grey marks there, that is where I have painted black to see the MIDDLE LAYER beneath. I used a paint brush, adjusted the opacity to about 30%, and kept painting until enough of the middle layer shined through.
Now, I combine those two layers into a single layer. We now have two layers. TOP LAYER - the HDR with the fixed ads and blown out areas. BOTTOM LAYER - the original RAW photo with the nice streaking yellow taxis and busses. We need to fix the HDR image on top because, if you look closely, there is lots of ripping and ghosting that looks unnatural. We create another LAYER MASK, then use the 30% brush to paint through to the bottom layer. As you can see from the extreme black in many areas, I painted over many many times until I was effectively at 100% brush, but you don’t want to start with that because sometimes the transition between the HDR and the original RAW can be too extreme.
Now, there is just some general cleanup left. I used the blur tool on the sky since there was some noise there, cropped the entire image better, and then pulled up the “LEVELS” dialog to adjust the overall brightness and contrast. I think HDRs look best when there are dark blacks somewhere in the image. Sometimes HDRs don’t have a single black dot anywhere in them, and they can look a little fake. I like to take the viewer’s eye on a little visual tour-de-force!
Below, we can see the final image once again! All the hard work has paid off! Behold!
Bonus Step - LucisArt
Many of my images get a visit from the sweet lady LucisArt.
LucisArt is awesome. I am sure after you see this you will want to get it. I suggest you download the trial and give it a run… the trial is nice because you get a preview window that shows what all the cool sliders do. You should still buy it, even though their webpage is rather JeffK. I don’t know how such a cool art-related product has such a 1998 webpage, but I digress again.
If you buy it, be sure to use this LucisArt Coupon Code of BAW1234, which they were nice enough to send me.
When you use LucisArt, I suggest the SCULPTURE setting with the top slider around 10 and the bottom slider between 5 and 20, depending on how extreme you want to be. It’s hard to explain what it does. It’s a bit like UNSHARP MASK, but a little better. Sadly, it only works in Photoshop CS2 as of the writing of this paragraph.
Bonus Step - Processing a single RAW file
In Photomatix, go to AUTOMATE > SINGLE FILE CONVERSION. You will need a RAW file for this. My Nikon uses .NEF files for RAW files. In that dialog, choose the “Convert RAW file to…… .hdr”. Choose your file and then wait around for a bit. You will end up with a .hdr file. Once you have that, open it again with Photomatix and then go to HDR > Tone Mapping, just like before. You will follow a similar process with all the .hdr files that are generated during Batch processing. Just drag them back into Photomatix and tone map them.
To show you how good images can look from just a single RAW file, here are a few examples:
That is an hour of your life you will never get back, but let’s hope you formed some good memories and skills to create more. 
Best of luck and I thank you for all your comments and feedback. I currently have over 12,000 emails unread in my photography inbox, so I apologize if I do not get back to you… just don’t have enough time I am afraid. But thanks for all your comments and support! I hope you all have as much fun with HDR as I am - again, best of luck to you!
Textures Tutorial
The second tutorial can be reached by clicking here. How that you are getting to know HDR, why not move onto the next one? Below is an advertisement that talks a little about the content.
June 6th, 2006 12:48
Hey.
Nice webpage and HDR tutorial. I’m working on puting together a new travel site to replace the mess of a site that’s been taking up webspace for the last several years. Keep up the great HDRs on flickr, and thanks for the briliant group of yours and your comments.
Eric (worldwidewandering on flickr)
June 6th, 2006 13:43
great tutorial, thanks.
have ben a fan of your shots for some time now, and had problems with setting photomatix’s tonemapping but these settings work great, thanks a lot.
June 6th, 2006 15:54
thanks for the tutorial, bro
this means a lot to us, yah know. man, i can’t thank you enough for sharing your creations and tips to us.
June 6th, 2006 18:23
Wonderful tutorial! Thanks for sharing. You’ve got some truly stunning work, and it’s great to see how it all goes together. The tips about HDR from a single RAW are great. I’m going to have to try FDR Tools and LucisArt now!
June 6th, 2006 19:32
Could you repeat all of that please?
June 6th, 2006 19:39
Wow, great tutorial! Thanks for writing it!
I loved all the detailed information and I think your writing style is fun: German minimalists and unpronounceable compositions of consonants (f.d.r.g.u.i) included!
Now all I need is a camera that can shoot raws, and Im going to try out the photoshop High pass part since I dont have the lucisart plugin…
Thanks again
June 7th, 2006 00:22
Thanks so much for writing this tutorial and sharing all this great information with us. I can’t wait to put some of this info to use!
June 7th, 2006 01:30
I’m gonna add this to my favorite websites. Your explanation of things is so clear! Thanks for sharing!
June 7th, 2006 02:37
Good job.
June 7th, 2006 08:57
Awesome job on the tutorial! Something there for everyone to learn.
Guess that means I can tell my bro now about LucisArt (he was pestering me, but I kept my mouth shut as instructed
Commentary on the user(un)friendliness of FDR is apt!
June 7th, 2006 09:05
I love your description of our memory of a scene being like a quilt. I hate things that become too trendy (and HDR seems headed that way), but your comments inspired my ongoing interest in it.
I definitly need to come back and read your entire tutorial as soon as I get a chance!
June 7th, 2006 09:33
Stuck, I’m not sure where you get the time to do all this, but thanks anyway. Your Flickr
Cabal obviously takes some time. Thanks for your comments on individual images. And now an HDR tutorial? Too much! But thanks anyway..for all of this! …Rgds, Colin
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsnap
June 7th, 2006 11:28
What a great job you’ve done on this tutorial. Thank you so much for taking the time to do all this.
Just a note on the Lucis Art plug in … after reading your tutorial I was just about ready to pay the $169 for this plugin then I decided to email the company with a few questions. I got some very good information from a nice lady named Barbara at ICT.
First the good news: They are totally OK with a customer installing the plugin on both their laptop and their desktop machine and using the same serial number.
Now, the maybe not so good news: The current version will not work on Intel Mac once Photoshop is upgraded to CS3 (the Intel binary). It will work right now on Intel Macs running CS2 under Rosetta but would stop working after upgrading to CS3. So the dilemma is: Buy it now and then possibly pay for an upgrade to a CS3 compatible version of the plugin or wait and buy it when the CS3 compatible version comes out? … I might just wait, $169 is already a little steep for a plugin… but paying that and then paying for an upgrade in 4-6 months … I don’t know.
June 8th, 2006 10:25
GREAT tutorial man, thanks for taking the time to build this… I think I will find this very useful.
June 13th, 2006 15:50
Very helpful tutorial.. will have to give this technique a try.
June 14th, 2006 20:24
Thank you so much! Your work is so amazing one could only hope to learn something from you! Thanks again I am off the give it a try.
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July 3rd, 2006 19:17
Many thanks, Trey and thanks for that discount code. I finally decided to pay up and register the product, and 15% off is not to be sneezed at.
I greatly enjoyed your clear writing.
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August 2nd, 2006 00:58
RAWs in Aperture can be exported by right clicking (control clicking) the image and choosing Output -> Export Master. Assuming the original file was RAW of course.
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I’m sorry, but the Single Raw conversion using the laest version of Photomatix dosn’t seem to work. It won’t even let me select any of my RAW files (I only shoot in RAW.) When I go to Automate>Batch Processing, it insists on having at least 2 files chosen. No option for selecting a single file. And when I navigate to the Source folder of my RAWs, I can’t select ANY of them!
Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated! (Using version 2.2.2 of Photomatix)
August 5th, 2006 08:57
Craig - yes I know what you are talking about… you have to select just ONE raw file. You can’t select the directory. I know… it is confusing… it makes you think you can batch process single raw files, but you can’t. You just “batch” process “one” selected at a time.
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From reading the tutorial it looks like all the things that were done in Photoshop could also be done in the less expensive Photoshop Elements.
August 12th, 2006 22:47
Thank you very much fot this very useful tutorial. I will now go out armed with my camera and tripod with the goal of taking multiple exposure shots for HDR !
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But hey - that’s just my opinion.
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December 21st, 2006 20:08
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December 22nd, 2006 22:34
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December 30th, 2006 00:12
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December 30th, 2006 02:15
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January 4th, 2007 22:01
I should have gone a little deeper and I would have found the answer to my questions. Thanks you did an awesome job.
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January 5th, 2007 01:47
Okay I see how this works, but I don’t understand how one can take action shots like this, don’t there have to be multiple images?
Oh, and is it possible to do the same with a film camera?
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January 19th, 2007 00:38
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THANKS for the gr8 tutorial.
January 20th, 2007 03:50
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January 22nd, 2007 19:14
Open source is good. I appreciate your effort. You appear to be a great photographer. Why don’t you tone down the HDR over processed look a bit. I’d like to see your style speak it’s volumes, not a technique look.
You’ve propmted me to play with the trial which I will most likely purchase.
January 26th, 2007 14:32
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January 26th, 2007 17:03
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January 26th, 2007 20:08
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January 28th, 2007 10:25
Thanks for the effort to knock this wonderful tutorial, Trey. This did help me to to try out with my first skittish HDR effort…
I adore your fotos as well…
Cheers,
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February 7th, 2007 07:14
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February 12th, 2007 16:55
Great tutorial - inspired me to try HDR.
Is there any chance you can post the three original pics or varying exposure on Flickr so us mere mortals can experiment with them in Photomatix?
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February 19th, 2007 16:47
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February 25th, 2007 17:56
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February 26th, 2007 09:47
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February 26th, 2007 16:38
waaay too many steps. HDR is easy, but this thing is pretty lengthy and complicated.
February 26th, 2007 18:02
I think your stuff is amazing…
Is there a place that I could download full-size images with multiple exposures so that I could try this on my own… I currently don’t have DSLR and would like to try HDR and some other things before I invest in one…
Anybody care to help me out? It doesn’t matter if you have a big watermark in the middle of it to protect your work, I just want to try it out… Thanks
February 26th, 2007 19:11
Thanks all.
Eddie - I prefer Lightroom - it is faster and has better integration with other Adobe products.
phlezk - I think you did not read this… this is long because there are several examples, not because the process is long.
Jeff - Thanks! I’m afraid I have no uploaded any of the component shots - I may do that in the future, though.
February 27th, 2007 09:47
Dude, nice tutorial you got there. There’s one problem though. After i did everything(except the lucistart). My images turned out blur. And i tried to sharpen it. But still i cant get a good results. so im wondering, how did u make your images crystal sharp?
February 27th, 2007 10:13
Blurry eh? I am not sure - did you use a tripod? Maybe they got blurred from uneven shots?
February 27th, 2007 21:50
I did not use a tripod though(my tripod sucks). And all i did was a single raw file conversion.
February 27th, 2007 22:06
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March 4th, 2007 21:45
Do you need Photomatix if you have Photoshop CS2?
March 5th, 2007 00:44
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March 5th, 2007 13:56
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March 6th, 2007 04:12
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The trick of one RAW for HDR is so good.
March 6th, 2007 18:21
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March 13th, 2007 17:55
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March 14th, 2007 21:42
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March 15th, 2007 20:33
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March 19th, 2007 22:49
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March 22nd, 2007 17:41
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The same effects can be done on the fly with special filters and shooting raw, with a following raw conversion e.g. C1.
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I have just started trying to use HDR and for some reason my images come out incredibly grainy. I’m not sure if it is my camera or something I’m doing wrong. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.
March 28th, 2007 05:33
Try to keep your ISO at 100 - that is a possible problem that some people have.
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March 28th, 2007 17:01
As Trey has mentioned, you can minimise noise during post processing in photoshop with various techniques. The more you push the limits of your image the more noise you’ll get. As well as keeping a low ISO, it helps to check noise with your zoom tool while tweeking your HDR and adjust your sliders until you find a satisfying compromise.
March 28th, 2007 17:11
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March 29th, 2007 10:39
My camera has a min iso of 200 and the noise is beyond what I can fix in photomatix or photoshop without ruining the picture. Any other suggestions?
March 29th, 2007 15:05
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April 2nd, 2007 19:56
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April 6th, 2007 18:02
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April 9th, 2007 17:04
HDR 2.0 Tutorial from Stuck In Customs…
This is a tutorial on HDR photography with a focus on multi exposures and single exposures….
April 9th, 2007 21:20
Great tutorial. Lots of info to play with. I got photomatix a month ago and I am hooked. your tutorial gives me some more ideas to work with it. Have you tried Noise Ninja for the noise issue? I got it as well and am really impressed with what it does.
April 10th, 2007 05:00
Thanks for a wonderful tutorial Trey. I have followed both yours and Valpopandos work very closely over the past few months since joining the Flickr community and I would like to thank you both for the inspiration that you bring to us all, thank you, Peter
April 12th, 2007 16:08
how do you do hdr photos of objects that move like horses… also, i would like to know if the d-70 can autobracket on its own… can i set it to shoot all 5 sequential modes without having to manually change the settings and move slightly moving my camera? btw… .these are some of the best hdr photos i have seen yet.
April 12th, 2007 18:31
Thanks all -
The moving photos are just single RAWs processed via Photomatix.
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April 13th, 2007 22:29
Trey, Thank you for the HDR tutorial, it is a wonderful gift you have shared with your fellow artists. Your art is inspiring, and by the way, I love your Grotto photo, it’s perfect like it is. I just bought a new camera and can’t wait to get started.
April 14th, 2007 20:39
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Trey,
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April 17th, 2007 03:30
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April 17th, 2007 18:16
There is a lot of photography on the web. Lots of HDR too. Your pix impressed me. Good eye, good after processing. Good everything. Keep it up!
April 19th, 2007 02:39
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April 19th, 2007 19:15
Thanks, Trey! Got some good results. Next stop some panoramas using my 24mm Tilt Shift Canon taking three shots and merging them and then using HDR.
April 20th, 2007 02:52
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April 26th, 2007 08:05
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April 30th, 2007 17:37
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May 3rd, 2007 15:46
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May 5th, 2007 08:36
how to contact you? I wanted to see if we could hire you for something…
May 5th, 2007 18:30
hello. I am really interested in HDR, but I have no enougth money to buy an DSLR or Reflex camera. instead, I can buy by now just the Panasonic Lumix DCM FZ7, wich is a “bridge” model or also named semi-reflex… you get the idea
so, I would like to know your opinion: will be fine to use this camera or better I wait and save some money