I would like to try HDR photography
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
:blush: :blush: 
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
:oops: :blush: Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Scotty wrote:
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Scotty wrote:
xmasforall wrote: With Photoshop CS5 you can use older single photos and create them into HDR.
Are you talking about exposure blending with smart objects or going into RAW editor and dragging saturation, contrast, fill light, recovery all the way up and playing with brightness?
In Photoshop CS5 Extended there is an HDR section to create single images into HDR.
Yes, but its kind of terrible.
IMHO all "auto" HDR stuff is crap... unless you fluke some good setting... then it's a freak-of-photographic-nature.
You do settle with automation.
No it keeps me up at night.
cwightmanphotos wrote:
Stealthy Ninja wrote:
Tarb1968 wrote: Won't Photomatix do this? I think so.
Yes, but...
I tried Photomatix back when I was experimenting with HDR and IMHO it's a horrible program that really easily makes a photo suck. IMHO the auto ISO feature in photoshop is better.
IMHO what Scotty said.
BTW HDR is really easy to overdo so be careful.
I have Photomatix. I like it. In the end, it's up to the person on how they post process photos. I use Photomatix for HDR, I also use Photoshop to make a single image into HDR. I also think HDR photos is something people either hate or like. People can either make good HDR photos or truly suck at it. Personally some of mine, I like and some of them...suck. It also depends on the subject.
In photography, the subject can make or break the photo.
Here is a link to my HDR photos.
www.crystalwightman.com/hdrimages
Can you tell which ones are from Photomatix and which ones are from Photoshop?
Overall, what do you think of my HDR photos?
By the way, the above questions are not just direct toward Ninja, but anyone who wants to answer.
Nice shots!
So how are you guys making HDR shots from Photoshop? Anyone have a few bullet points to share?
Dan Dangerfield wrote: Nice shots!
So how are you guys making HDR shots from Photoshop? Anyone have a few bullet points to share?
Thank you Dan.
If I make an HDR image from a single photo, I just use the HDR toning in Photoshop. It's a simple step to choose the HDR toning you like. Photoshop also has an HDR merging where you can merge your individual images into one HDR photo.
I use Photomatix to create my HDR photos.
Creating HDR photos is easy when using any HDR photo editing software. Just import the photos and the program layers the photos together. The hard part you (as the photographer) needs to work on is taking the HDR photo the program created and adjusting the sliders to make the photo what you like.
Everyone has their own taste when it comes to HDR images.
Overall I enjoy looking at HDR, if the HDR was done right. Otherwise, it can be a bad photo to look at.
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