[Daniel Silk]

What do you know about HDR Photography? and have you tried it? ;D

Heres a few pieces by Logan Hicks

www.LoganHicks.com

[Daniel Silk]

High-Dynamic-Range Photography

[Daniel Silk]

What difference do they make?

Watch this video for before and afters -

[dotdot]

Keep it RAW.

..

[trowel]

Tried it a few times in the States, Monument Valley and the GC in particular. Came out well, but nothing like as good as that top subway shot!

A decent tripod and a little knowledge of how to control your camera's exposure bracketing will get great results with little effort. As dotdot says, shooting in RAW is essential.

This is the guide I used: www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/

[Daniel Silk]

A couple more London pieces from Logan Hicks - www.LoganHicks.com

[Daniel Silk]

Anyone know of any FREE software for a Mac to do this sort of thing? ;D

When are they gonna produce HDR goggles Imagine being able to walk about and see everything in that much detail

[bradpitt]

Silky - download the trial version of photomatix.. I don't think you will be seeing HDR goggles as it works by grouping images together with different exposures as far as I know.

Romanywg has done some excellent HDR images of Hellingly Hospital which are definitely worth a look

www.flickr.com/photos/romanywg/sets/72157615611779018/

The Logan Hicks are really good too.

Oh and this guy's pictures are pretty amazing too

www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/

[elwheel]

Yup Romanywg showed a few of his pieces in an earlier thread about camera choices and its was very tasty stuff.

[curiousgeorge]

I think it has it's uses, but you can't beat the feeling and smugness of getting everything just perfect 'in camera'

Far too much HDR online is very overdone hence a lot of purists slate it

[neale]

Good point CG, seems to take away the skill element of photography if you can compensate and change the image later, that said the subway shot is a stunner

[funyoung]

Photography really brings out some very strong opinions I find. The 'purists' seem to forget how much trickery used to be done in the darkroom. Most of the stuff we do on our computers (dodging and burning, HDR) seem to have roots in skills learnt in darkrooms / years before 'digital photography' (see Charles Wykcoff).

I love the surreal images you get with HDR but they always look surreal ie tend to be easy to spot.

The second image posted - did it really need to be HDR?

[romanywg]

You hit the nail on the head Funyoung. If done well you can't even notice it. I tend to go slightly OTT so that you know something has been done but maybe don't know for sure what it is. Except the last shot at Hellingly Asylum, that one is well OTT but I think it works well.

[charlie]

romanywg - that last one of yours - really a photo?!
very cool.
going to get out experimenting with my DSLR me thinks.....

[spirit]

Apr 8, 2009 18:33:16 GMT 1 elwheel said:

Yup Romanywg showed a few of his pieces in an earlier thread about camera choices and its was very tasty stuff.

Any chance of a link to that thread?

[Maxie]

very good, i have tinkered with it using CS4 - its not a great program for HDr with my lack of knowledge

[romanywg]

Apr 9, 2009 11:15:55 GMT 1 spirit said:

Apr 8, 2009 18:33:16 GMT 1 elwheel said:

Yup Romanywg showed a few of his pieces in an earlier thread about camera choices and its was very tasty stuff.

Any chance of a link to that thread?

It's here urbanartassociation.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=32986&page=1

[Bram]

nice work Ronanywg

[romanywg]

Here's another recent one and as always, more on my flickr.

[Martin DK]

I must learn this - have a Canon 350D camera - is there a 'step by step' guide for something like this?

[romanywg]

Download a free trial version here www.hdrsoft.com/
Tutorial here www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

[Martin DK]

Cheers Romany - ill look into this!