Did I just make HDR?

[Dog--]

I've been looking at some HDR pics and they look cool, so I tried my hand at making one.. I'm pretty sure this is HDR, different exposured pics together into one?

Anyways even if it's not, it still looks cool.

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1240/20472498.jpg


http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/608/77202519.jpg

[Hazar]

looks awesome!

and you're back!

[Dog--]

pfft no ban can hold me, I'm Dog-- ffs!


oh god please don't ban me ever again

[bryanf445]

I see you upgraded your cameras graphics card. Is it multicore?

[Dog--]

Should've made the colour temperature hotter.. The sky could've been red!

[Barnz]

I can't accord a machine :(

[No Limit]

Did you take those pictures? pretty sweet.

[Remus]

TBH I like the non HDR one better. The second picture just seems overall too bright and saturated.

[Dog--]

Did you take those pictures? pretty sweet.

No this is just some picture I found on the web, it doesn't look quite as good as some HDR pics out there, because I changed the exposures in photoshop, but with a real camera what you do is take like 5 or so pictures all with different exposure levels and it looks WAY better.

Here are some true HDR pics, you can tell.

http://digital-photography-school.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/hdr-photoshop-1.jpg

http://www.digitalcameratracker.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/hdr-truck.jpg

http://blog.photoshelter.com/corp/hdr-76.jpg

[Krynn72]

Those are actually HEAVILY PHOTOSHOPPED HDR pictures. You dont get shitty looking pics like that straight out of the camera. You gotta **** with the hues and throw in some retarded bloom effects to ruin them like that.

[Dog--]

Those are actually HEAVILY PHOTOSHOPPED HDR pictures. You dont get shitty looking pics like that straight out of the camera. You gotta **** with the hues and throw in some retarded bloom effects to ruin them like that.

No actually I explained it in the first post, it's a bunch of different pictures with different exposure levels put together. You take like 3 or 4 or 5 pictures with your camera, then use photoshop to put them together (file>automate>merge to HDR, thats in photoshop, but I used a different program for it)

[Krynn72]

I know what HDR is, I've taken quite a few hdr photos myself. I'm saying those three examples there are overly photoshopped pictures and are ruined by it.

[Dog--]

Oh.

I think the first one is decent, the river.

[Qonfused]

HDR is cool when trying to balance a hard-to-expose photo. Those examples you posted are not such.

[xcellerate]

No actually I explained it in the first post, it's a bunch of different pictures with different exposure levels put together. You take like 3 or 4 or 5 pictures with your camera, then use photoshop to put them together (file>automate>merge to HDR, thats in photoshop, but I used a different program for it)

Photomatix?

Yes those photos are created using the HDR process, but they are over processed. Ideally you don't want people to really notice the processing.

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/3372/img352867hdrlzn.jpg
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/2256/mbumbrellashdr.jpg
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/8548/erriehsehdr2low.jpg

The problem is the internet is flooded with "hdr" shots that are too over done or people simply don't understand the point.

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/669/hdrhighres.jpg

Plus the thousands of people who also think hdr makes a photo interesting. "Here's a tree/cat/car/rock/bottle/chair! But it's cool now cause I had a seizure on the tone mapping menu, right?" Photography is a form of art and open to interpretation; some people must be happy with their "cartoony" images otherwise there wouldn't be so many, but I just prefer the more subtle approach.

And I'm not saying your image is bad, but I don't really see anything wrong with your original exposure.

[Dog--]

stuff

Yea I used photomatix, and to be honest, I like both. Sometimes they add a bit of colour to a pic, sometimes the pictures dont need that though. So I think either way is good, both are cool.

[DEATHMASTER]

If I lived in a world like that last pic...

[Dog--]

Drop some acid?

[Ravioli]

Welcome back, ye ol Dog.

HDR, srsbsns