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 11/12/2006 11:10:58 PM · #126
Oh I am so glad someone else new to this is entering!! Lousy weather for getting anything to work with, but as you said, I'm IN! :)

Ingrid

Originally posted by ursula:
He, he, he, I decided I'm gonna learn this sucker, and make it work! Gonna make it work! Problem is, didn't get much of a good picture today. Oh well. But I'm IN. I'M IN!!!!!

11/12/2006 11:13:34 PM · #127
Originally posted by ursula:
He, he, he, I decided I'm gonna learn this sucker, and make it work! Gonna make it work! Problem is, didn't get much of a good picture today. Oh well. But I'm IN. I'M IN!!!!!


OMG! The "I hate HDR" gal entered the HDR challenge! Welcome to the dark side!

R.
 11/12/2006 11:21:49 PM · #128
I wonder how many copies of Photomatix were purchased today... HA! I bet their sales metrics are completely screwed. They're thinking - what the heck is going on today?
 11/12/2006 11:23:20 PM · #129
Originally posted by SJCarter:
I wonder how many copies of Photomatix were purchased today... HA! I bet their sales metrics are completely screwed. They're thinking - what the heck is going on today?


I have it on good authority that their sales rep offered a flat fee to Langdon and Drew to schedule this speed challenge :-)

R.
 11/12/2006 11:26:40 PM · #130
As an experiment, I took an image, and then saved it into seven additional images after darkening it and lightening it fairly dramatically. This really isn't what HDR is intended to do, I guess, since an error message arose that said that there wasn't enough range for the HDR to be completed properly. I guess I'll have to go out and try this for real sometime. Sounds like a fun technique.
 11/12/2006 11:35:03 PM · #131
ummm...I did some SERIOUS exposure changes, say from -2.55 to -.55 to +1.55 and when I TRY to merge to HDR it says not enough dynamic range differences in shots to merge????
 11/12/2006 11:49:49 PM · #132
Originally posted by msdoubletrouble:
ummm...I did some SERIOUS exposure changes, say from -2.55 to -.55 to +1.55 and when I TRY to merge to HDR it says not enough dynamic range differences in shots to merge????


We don't seem to have this problem with Photomatix Pro; I do that sort of thing all the time. I'm not sure why this is happening in CS2, aside from the previously mentioned EXIF tags.

R.
 11/12/2006 11:50:00 PM · #133
GREAT
Now I want to go out and spend money that I don't have.

Can't enter the challenge because I can't afford to get rid of the watermark. But geez.. Look at what I did with a couple of ugly trees in my back yard. This is seven shots at seven different shutters, F8


11/12/2006 11:50:32 PM · #134
yeah... I sat this one out! :)
 11/12/2006 11:51:13 PM · #135
Looks like under a hundred entries for sure, so a top 100 is a good bet for me :-)

R.
 11/12/2006 11:52:21 PM · #136
Originally posted by Nuzzer:
Awwww, how about making it a 48-hour challenge?

Rollover is 6pm in NZ so I won't be home from work with a shot by then :(


Well, hectic but I ran out for a shot at lunchtime and snuck off work early. I'm in. It's fun to try new stuff!
 11/12/2006 11:57:49 PM · #137
Just got mine in !! But I think I could have done the same outcome with one exposure??
 11/12/2006 11:59:41 PM · #138
Whew! Just barely squeezed my entry in before the deadline.

I love checking my email at 8pm and realizing there's a 24 hour challenge on. Certainly keeps life interesting :P
 11/13/2006 12:54:40 AM · #139
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by ursula:
He, he, he, I decided I'm gonna learn this sucker, and make it work! Gonna make it work! Problem is, didn't get much of a good picture today. Oh well. But I'm IN. I'M IN!!!!!


OMG! The "I hate HDR" gal entered the HDR challenge! Welcome to the dark side!

R.


No, I took it down at the last minute. I want to keep up my image of "I hate HDR" you know :)

And the image wasn't very good.

Added: BTW, I don't hate HDR. I'd been experimenting with various forms of it since earlier this year, after kiwiness started experimenting with it, and he was kind enough to send me some links. I just believe it is something to be used carefully and with delicacy. A lot of what's being done with it is neither careful nor delicate.

Anyway.

Message edited by author 2006-11-13 01:31:40.
 11/14/2006 12:28:42 AM · #140
Fascinating. I joined up to learn and now I feel like i'm learning. Could we have this challenge again in a few weeks ? I'm sure i'm not the only one who is going to want to get to grips with this.

A few queries if I may.

Am I right in thinking that these kinds of images would normally be against both sets of rules because they utilise more than one exposure ?

Would the image of the ice hockey player where the same image is processed repeatedly and overlayed be against the advance editing rules ?

If the processing on each layer of the hockey player were within the basic editing rules could the image also be within the basic editing rules ?

11/14/2006 12:29:40 AM · #141
And does anybody have a link to a page dealing with processing of the ice hockey player type ?
 11/14/2006 06:03:48 AM · #142
Originally posted by thelobster:

Am I right in thinking that these kinds of images would normally be against both sets of rules because they utilise more than one exposure ?

Would the image of the ice hockey player where the same image is processed repeatedly and overlayed be against the advance editing rules ?

If the processing on each layer of the hockey player were within the basic editing rules could the image also be within the basic editing rules ?


Correct to the first; we cannot use "true" HDRI usually because we are limited to a single exposure.

The ice hockey player is probably legal in advanced editing. I say "probably" because the processing steps are only sketched in. But as the rules stand you can make multiple variations of the same exposure and sandwich them as layers in advanced editing, and this is how most of us make our "quasi HDRI" images in regular challenges.

The ice hockey player cannot be legal in basic challenges. However, you may use a single exposure/single layer and use shadow/highlight in CS2 or tone mapping in Photomatix Pro to compress the tonal range of the single exposure, and this is currently legal in basic editing.

R.
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