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06/13/2008 01:39:54 PM · #1 |
Long story short, I had to take this shot, bracketed it for seven shots. I tried photomatix and nothing good comes of it. The merge to HRD is the same. I can never seem to get HDR to work for me. Here are the pictures I used
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06/13/2008 02:20:29 PM · #2 |
Just running #1, #5 and #7 through Photomatix quick, I get this.
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06/13/2008 02:29:00 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by dsray:
Just running #1, #5 and #7 through Photomatix quick, I get this.
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Looks good but you may have put to much saturation in your shadows and highlights. What did you set the saturation at on the both of them? |
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06/13/2008 02:37:05 PM · #4 |
Assuming the settings are retained (I didn't record them) 60. I'll de-saturate slightly and see about that.
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Message edited by author 2008-06-13 14:49:32.
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06/13/2008 06:26:43 PM · #5 |
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Here is my take on it. I used exposures 1, 5, and 6 only. Before I went into photomatix, I used levels in the RGB channels to color correct the image. I find having slight color shifts in the originals will give you those unnatural colors when ran through Photomatix. I ran NI on the sky and shadows/highlights on the buildings. Then ran USM once around (24, 43, 0) for more local contrast and another around (180, .4, 0) for regular sharpening. Also made a selective color adjustment to get more natural tones. I cropped the sky to, I never get good resultsWhen I do HDR stuff, I used to bracket way too much. I would end up with too many shots I wasn't going to use. Now I look at my images as I bracket on the LCD or histogram. I start by not blowing highlights and stop when the darkest shadow is properly exposed. This is usually 3-5 shots. Hope that helps.
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06/14/2008 02:58:42 PM · #6 |
Much appreciated. I think maybe my subject (the city) is just not that good enough a subject under the conditions to warrant am HDR effort. Thanks thought!!
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