I'm testing to make fake-HDR's of some flies.
I don't like a big HDR-effect,just a little to increase the DR and details.
This fly is made of 5 different adjusted pictures and a tiny touch of gaussian blur
in one of the layers.
Thomas, I love the effect you created and the comp. is very nice. Great details and pose. Well done.:)
05-28-2010, 07:40 AM
Thomas Herou
Thanks,Denise!
I'm still in a learning-phase,but I think this method can work well
in some cases.
05-28-2010, 10:12 AM
Nicki Gwynn Jones
Thomas, this is really good. I love the soft BG and the sharpness of the fly is amazing :)
Best,
Nicki
05-28-2010, 04:49 PM
Paul Lagasi
Thomas..very nicely done, like it..can you go into a little more detail on how its done and what software?
05-28-2010, 04:54 PM
Kerry Perkins
Thomas, you got a really nice effect with your process. Love the look and you got a nice capture of the fly.
05-28-2010, 07:16 PM
Cheryl Slechta
Thomas, the detail in the fly is amazing. Great image:)
05-28-2010, 08:22 PM
Christopher Miller
Great detail in the fly, Thomas. Love the effect you got. A slightly different angle might be better next time to avoid the leaf covering part of the fly.
05-29-2010, 05:17 AM
Thomas Herou
Thanks for the comments!
Christopher,I know what you mean about the leaf.I have a lot of images with the fly "clean".
But I liked the angle here,and the leaf got sadly in the way.
05-29-2010, 01:28 PM
WIlliam Maroldo
Great image, fantastic details, too bad about the OOF leaf. I thought HDR was useful in capturing luminosities in a scene that could not be done without multiple exposures. I don't understand what HDR has to do with details, and as a matter of fact HDR, in my experience, has a negative effect on detail. Not alot, but even with a very sturdy tripod, and software lining things up, I still think that there are small discepancies between images that very slightly blur the resulting image. Could be wrong. Now it would be possible to combine a number of images of the same subject at the same time, each focused on a point progressively further back, and combine them together.
Any way. Extraordinary image! regards~Bill
05-30-2010, 07:46 PM
Thomas Herou
Thanks William!
I agree that in "real" HDR with multiple exposures taken at the same time,the loss of detail and sharpness can be significant!
I noticed in my fake-HDR tests that taking one picture and altering the curves in RAW keeps the details much better,but the HDR-effect is lesser.Just what I want:to increase the DR a little and keep the sharpness and increase details in shadows.