How to take an HDR picture..

[junior varsity]

I'm getting better at this. It takes practice and adjusting not only the tone mapping, but the HDR exposure setting as well. Here's one from tinkering in the garage earlier, now that I have a tripod.

[MAXdB]

hunduc and i tried to see if we could get a little more detail out of the pictures. Here are the originals and final pics. (settting were the same as above other than increasing microsmoothing to +3):

[MAXdB]

ato memphis, that looks beautiful! what kind of settings did you use?

[junior varsity]

Well, I just kept fiddling with it till I liked the way the preview looked. I believe, it was:

Strength  73
Color Sat  58
Light Smoothing  Medium
Luminosity -1
White Point 0.250% (or something close)
Black Point 0.0% (or very close)
Gamma 1.00-1.10 (closer to 1.00 I think)

Micro Contrast 0
Micro Smoothing 2

Temp 0
Sat Highlights 2
Sat Shadows 2

[junior varsity]

Once I get the fueling sorted out and the bike put back together, I'm going to roll it out and place it against that wood wall behind the garage for a better picture. Glad I have a tripod so I can try these out now.

[junior varsity]

With similar settings to what y'all used (but with luminosity down a notch), I get:



Looks much more like an oil painting, but loses a bit too much realism I originally thought.

[MAXdB]

^^ I like that a lot too  .. I like my hdr pics to look like they're  half photography/half painting

[NoisyDante]

Finally some success, not 100% what I'm looking to create, but it is something.

Here's the original and the HDR image.

[battlecry]

How did you get three exposures on a moving bike?  Did you do tone mapping on one image?     

[NoisyDante]

I hired the fastest photographer in the world!   [moto]

I did this at work when I was supposed to be working but wasn't.  I used Preview on a Mac to change the exposure slightly, one a little lighter and one a bit darker, then I imported the 3 images and used the settings posted by MAXdb as a starting point within the Photomatix program.

[MAXdB]

I was able to snap some pics in the sunlight today:

[djrashonal]

I gave it a shot....I suppose I'll have to take a few more snapshots when the bike's back together

[MAXdB]

^^ Djrashonal that looks good. what settting did you use?

[djrashonal]

not sure, i havent figured out how to open it back up and retain the settings

[DucHead]