How to take an HDR picture..

[djrashonal]

thanks for the link! this will def help me with my photographic endeavors 

[tankerbutt]

Had some extra time, so I tried again.  I  think this time it came out better than the previous





and the final product

[djrashonal]

yea man, that looks great!!!! nice bike too 

[junior varsity]

[junior varsity]

[djrashonal]

AM - that came out amazing! I love the look of the clear lens. You mind posting the original pics so we see how it started/what kind of exposures yield that result?

[junior varsity]

No prob! I had "noon-sun", which in my limited photographic experience (read:none) seems to be the worst. And it was clear as a bell at around 11:30 when I took a lunch break to take photos of me bike.

Here's a shot in "automatic" on my Canon,



And here's the 5 'stops' I used (if that's the correct way to describe the various shots). Used a tripod of course:






I think a good evaluation is how much detail you get compared to the "automatic" version, shown below (of course with the HDR "cartoony" touch added in):

[jeph72]

I thought I'd give it a go, and this is what I came up with

Thanks for the tutorial!

I did this in aperture using the photomatix plug in. I took the original and made 4 copies. I underexposed 2 and over exposed 2. Then I put the 5 together.

Curious how to reduce the grain (noise?) I've played around with the settings, but it appears as though when I reduce the grain, it lessens the effects as well and starts to look more and more like the originals. I've tried using Photoshop to reduce the noise, but it didn't seem to help.

[MAXdB]

I thought I'd give it a go, and this is what I came up with

Thanks for the tutorial!

I did this in aperture using the photomatix plug in. I took the original and made 4 copies. I underexposed 2 and over exposed 2. Then I put the 5 together.

Curious how to reduce the grain (noise?) I've played around with the settings, but it appears as though when I reduce the grain, it lessens the effects as well and starts to look more and more like the originals. I've tried using Photoshop to reduce the noise, but it didn't seem to help.

Try increasing the microsetting first (just by 1 or 2 at a time since it makes a noticable difference). You can also try tweaking the light smoothing a little too. For altering pics is they get too dark, decrease the gamma.. but if the only problem is the graininess, I found the microsetting works best. Hope that helps.


I made another hdr pic after being inspired by one of the wallpapers from the gizmoto website posted earlier by dante:

[freedom]

That is so cool.   

[MAXdB]

Had some extra time, so I tried again.  I  think this time it came out better than the previous





and the final product

looks good, tanker! You may want to also try making some hdr pics with originals where you have the light behind you as opposed to behind the bike--or at the very least a background that is not too bright. For a lot of my garage pics, I'll actually barely have any light..just one light shining toward the bike. I feel that allows me to take the shot with a slower shutter speed (since there is less light) which I think ultimately gives better detail to the pic.. after all, the hdr pic's qualitiy will depend a lot on the originals you use.

Keep us updated with any more pics  

[NoisyDante]

I made another hdr pic after being inspired by one of the wallpapers from the gizmoto website posted earlier by dante:

This bike looks so mean, I love it, have you replaced the original gauge cluster?

[ctrain]

My first attempt. Not as sweet as the other pics posted but its not too bad. I had issues getting the white on the wheels bright without loosing the detail and making it look washed out.   Not to mention I need to crop it. 

[NoisyDante]

That would actually be a great candidate to do a sort of bleach bypass effect on it with bright blooming whites and deep blacks, like the styling of Minority Report.

[ctrain]

That would actually be a great candidate to do a sort of bleach bypass effect on it with bright blooming whites and deep blacks, like the styling of Minority Report.

any tips on how to do that?