Taken yesterday at Long Key Nature Center. Four exposures at +2, 0, -2 and -3. The sky really looked like that on the horizon. it was amazing. looked as if it were on fire. i tried my best to make the entire scene look realistic. it was tough. did i even get close here?
I like it Doctor...you left out the most important element...:eek: where are the Owls...:D you can't have a forest like this without any owls...:confused:
The red/orange sunset puts this over the top...good show...
Looks like something out of/or the magic forest..I like the bit of fence tucked back in adds a bit of different structure and texture. Yes I Like the image
Last edited by Nonda Surratt; 01-04-2009 at 05:56 PM.
That is a dandy Harold, sort of like the Lion, Witch and wardrobe. I wondered about the mid tones too, but would not want to lose the colour and mood. Neat colours.
Dave
yes, i see what you did. you took it back to what the original HDR looked like. i intentionally darkened the image because it was dusk and darker. therefore i see where i knocked down the midtones. thanks for the help!!!
Oh gosh Harold, I hope Alfred or someone more knowledgable will comment. My suggestion would be to just check out the mid tone contrast function in the show more options of shadow/highlights in CS3. Or perhaps fooling around witht he tonal widths in the same screen. The nice thing is that you have a very nice photo as is and in the screen I mentioned you can use the preview button to see if it makes any diff.
Harold, looks great. You are doing some great work in HDR. Could you give me a brief overview of what you are doing??? Couldn't find any tutorials on this site. Am going thru some on the web. Like the repost by Gus too. lightening it up a bit:)
thanks for the comments, everyone! gus, yes, this is where i shot the owl. same place, different area.
jackie, the high points from what i am doing.
compose the image.
make three exposures at +2, 0, and -2. then i look at each in the camera. if i still have blinkies at -2 i take another at -3 and check again. i also check the +2 to make sure i have enough detail at that high exposure. if not i go to +3.
then i convert all of the images i want to use to the largest jpeg i can.
drag and drop all the jpegs into Photomatix at the same time.
follow all the instructions in the Photomatix program. i use all their presets in the tutorial.
then i take the final image into capture nx2 or you could use the program of your choice, and tone map it.
you will be blown away by the image photomatix spits out, but after you get to looking a little more in detail, you can see some halos and what not in the areas where color and light transition. that's mainly the stuff that i work on along with my regular workflow.
i think you can do the same things with the photomatix program, but i have not gotten that in depth with it yet.
Another HDR attempt
