This is sunrise on Edisto Gardens in Orangeburg South Carolina. This is a bracketed shot merge inside Lightroom using the HDRSoft Plugin called 32 bit merge to HDR. From Lightroom I placed the image inside Photoshop CC2014 for Topaz Denoise, Topaz Restyle, Topaz Glow and Topaz Impression. A little haze the morning I shot this. I had the park all to myself.

Fast Fact

 

Tambunan Marine Protected Area is supported by DAI and its local partners captured 2nd honors as the most outstanding MPAs in the Philippines at the 2009 "Para el Mar" awards event, held June 28-30 at the Conference of Coastal Municipalities in Cebu City. The 103-hectare Tambunan Marine Sanctuary won 2nd place next to Pilar Municipal Marine Park in Pilar town, located in the Camotes group of islands in Cebu, from a group of 12 finalists, which were in turn selected from a list of 70 nominees.

 

Declared a marine sanctuary through a Municipal Ordinance No. 03-91 and formally launched in July 2003 • 103 hectares core area within which 8.5 hectares are protected mangroves • 95 hectares marine sanctuary with large coral patches • Coral cover fair to good and dominated by massive, branching, and submassive types, notably Porites, Diploastrea, Goniopora, Fungia, and faviids

 

Abundance of fishery resources around the MPA – mackerel and tuna-like fishes, jacks, round scads, sardines, sailfish, flying fish, and needlefish, including reef associated types such as parrotfish, eels, siganids, and goatfish • Rich in mollusks and crustaceans such as squids, octopus, cuttlefish, as well as lobsters, blue crabs, various shrimps, and mangrove crabs • Over 94 species of reef fishes accounting for medium-scale biomass, i.e., 10 to 30 mT/ km² • Pristine seagrass area with 7 species; mangroves within narrow sheltered embayment composed of Rhizophora apiculata, Avicennia lanata Ridley, and Sonneratia alba

 

Source [?]

 

Processing

□ Three (3) Stitched Panorama Image

□ Standard Three (3) Bracketed Exposures (-2...0...+2) EV @ ISO 100 on each RAW Image

□ Generated HDR Image using Tonemapped Details Enhancer ж Photomatix Pro3.2

□ Three (3) Tonemapped Images merged into a Panorama using A.P.CS3 Photomerge

□ Post-Processing and Final Touch using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows

□ Press L to view on its Large Dark Side

 

Location

 

Tambunan Beach, Municipality of Tabina, Zamboanga Del Sur, Philippines

 

Copyright

 

This image is copyrighted to The Doctor © 2011 Mario G. Pinlac II

 

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Pretty amazing right ?

... But even more amazing than this view of a glass museum is that the entrance is from under the ocean ! So cool

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

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(This is a re-edited HDR of Forest Railroad Bridge)

 

Note: Below tutorial was written for Photomatix Pro 2.22. Photomatix latest software version has similar but slightly different settings.

 

The quest for the perfect HDR - A Photomatix Tutorial

 

I’ve had a few people ask me how I make my HDRs, so I decided to post the guide here.

 

I’m not really explaining what a HDR is, as that has been explained really well before. (Check the links there too)

 

I use Photomatix, which you can try for free and download here: www.hdrsoft.com

 

I use the full (pro) version, which gives you the option to do Tone Mapping. I didn’t have that option with the free basic version, so you will have to buy the pro version as far as I know to make HDRs and to tone map them.

 

I almost always used a tripod so far, and generally make 3 exposures (3xp). These xp would all be 2 stops apart. So one with the highest xp (xp +2), one with xp 0, and one with the lowest xp (xp -2). For some photos I also used 5xp, where they are all 1 stop apart. I shoot JPG, as my camera doesn’t have RAW shooting options. :( Sponsor me for a new camera? :) Donate with Paypal

  

One thing you should keep in mind is that more xp has its advantages and or disadvantages.

 

Advantages of more xp

 

Higher color range - More different xp to get the color information from.

 

Less blur in some cases - If you are photographing things that are close to you in windy conditions, like leaves on a tree that are 1m or closer away from you, taking 5xp or even 7xp or more, will make sure that at least some of the photos will be aligned. This reduces blur on the final HDR because the 1 or 2 photos that might be unaligned will not be as visible if you have 5 that are. If you would only take 3xp, there is a great chance that if one of them is unaligned, it will show pretty clearly in the HDR, which is not always nice. I am not talking about soft blur, which usually does look pretty nice; I am talking more about seeing two leaves overlapping each other for example, which is not what we want. The more xp you take, the higher chance you have of your unaligned photo turning out to add soft blur, which is good.

 

Disadvantages of more xp

 

More work & takes longer – Logically, you are going to have to take an extra 2 or 4 photos. Sometimes you have to work fast because of changing conditions or movement, photographing people that have to sit still for a long time is hard for example.

 

More possibility of unaligned photos – Of course, the more photos you take, the higher the chance is that you get one that is not aligned. With only 3xp, if you are fast and your camera is stuck securely, and it’s not windy, you have a good chance that you won’t have any unaligned photos. But if you take 7xp there might just be one or two that won’t be aligned. Still, this might be part of the advantages as I explained above, since that might result in an accidental soft blur.

 

Soft blur

 

I have used this technique on some of my HDRs, and I think it looks very nice. So how do I do this? Well, if you haven’t found out yourself yet, it’s pretty easy. Blur one of the photos; usually I take the middle one or one that is a little overexposed, xp 0 or xp +1. However you do this is of course up to you, and I will let you experiment for yourself with that. I used Gaussian blur in Photoshop with a blur of 5 or 10 pixels.

 

Then you make the HDR as normal, and I have done this in 2 ways so far. Let’s say we have a photo that we made 3xp of and we use xp + 1 to blur. Either you can replace xp +1 with the blurred version, and make a HDR of 3xp of which one is blurred, or you can add the blurred version to all 3 originals. Then you will have 4xp. I like this result better usually and it’s not really more work.

 

Tip: Make the HDR from the normal exposures first, then blur one of the exposures, and add it to the other exposures, take them into Photomatix again, and use the button “Previous Settings” to get exactly the same HDR coloring and contrast etc as you got in the non-blurred HDR.

 

Edit: To get a blurred photo, of course you can also just set your camera to macro mode or make an unfocussed photo by focussing incorrectly. Doing this gives different results than blurring with Gaussian blur in Photoshop.

 

Edit 2: Lately I have been using a different method. Finish the HDR, then open it in Photoshop. Double the layer, and do a gaussian blur between 10 and 50 pixels or so. Set the layer to "overlay" mode and reduce the opacity to 50% or so if that looks better. Play around with the brightness and saturation of the blurred layer as this can give some nice effects as well. I sometimes also only blur certain parts of an image if that looks better.

  

Tone Mapping

 

This it one of the most important steps in getting a nice HDR. Take your time for this. I spend more time tone mapping sometimes than taking the photos.

 

I will explain the tone mapping in Photomatix, as that is the only program I have used so far.

 

If tone mapping is a magical machine that can create beautiful dreamy photos, then this machine has 7 weird dials and levers that can help you find the right combination of the perfect HDR.

 

Of course I must say that making a perfect HDR also requires perfect photos… :)

 

I will explain these "levers and dials" only as far as I know, I am no pro, I just try things out myself as well. The italic text is from Photomatix’s help file.

 

Luminosity

Adjusts the brightness of the shadows and the amount of local contrast enhancement. Moving the slider to the right has the effect of boosting shadow details and brightening the image. Moving it to the left gives a more natural look to the tone mapped image.

 

Slide this to the left to make the image generally darker, and to the right to make it brighter. I have more often used it to make things brighter so far, because I love bright daylight images, but if you want a more natural, or darker image, maybe the left side is better.

 

Strength

Controls the strength of local contrast enhancements. A value of 100% gives the maximum increase in local contrast.

 

Be very careful with this setting. This is one of the strongest edits. Play with it as much as you like, you will see the difference. It depends as well on what your photo is. If you have clouds in the photo, setting this higher than 50% often creates grey shadows on clouds that are the typical ugly HDR. I have only seen a very few HDRs with dark clouds that looked good. I only set this to 100%, or often around 70% when I have few or no clouds or sky in the photo. This setting can be set lower to reduce halos around clouds and other subjects in your photo as well.

 

Color Saturation

Controls the saturation of the RGB color channels. The greater the saturation, the more intense the color. The value affects each color channel equally.

 

Set this low to create a flat image with less color, or to the right to make a bright colourful image. I often set this (too?) high, because I love color.

 

White Clip & Black Clip

Both sliders control how the minimum and maximum values of the output image are set. Moving the sliders to the left increases global contrast. Moving it to the left reduces the clipping at the extremes. The White Clip slider sets the value for the maximum (pure white or level 255). The Black Clip slider sets the value for the minimum (pure black or level 0).

 

I usually set White Clip anywhere between 0.250% - 5.000% and Black Clip pretty low around 0.100%. Setting black too high, often creates halos around clouds, and makes the image seem weirdly dark.

 

Smoothing

Controls the amount of smoothing of luminance variations. A higher value tends to give a more natural look to the image. A lower value increases sharpness.

 

I agree completely with Photomatix, and can only add that I prefer High, or Medium. I hardly ever use the lower settings, but have a look at them anyway just in case.

 

Microcontrast

Controls the accentuation of local details. The default value (0) is the optimal value in most cases. However, this control may be useful in the case of a noisy image or when the accentuation of local details is not desirable (e.g. seams of a stitched pano in a uniform area may become visible when local details are too much enhanced).

 

So I assume that with the default value they mean “Very Low”? Im not sure. At least, Microcontrast does what it says it does. It makes the contrast between small details Very Low, Low, Medium or High. I usually use Medium or sometimes High. I find the lower values make the image too flat.

 

For the rest you find buttons under tone mapping for Settings to use Previous tone mapping settings, Default settings provided by Photomatix, these have never looked good according to me, and load and save settings. Save your settings if you think they look good and you want to use them more often. I use preview size 768, which is unfortunately the highest, I would like a higher resolution. (Set this size to be default: View > Default Options > tab HDRI > Preview Size 768.)

 

Hope this all helps; I would love feedback or suggestions. Let me know what you do differently, I’m interested in everyone’s techniques, as HDR is a powerful tool that can give very nice results if used correctly.

 

I will post this guide on some of the HDR groups, as I think it will be interesting for everyone!

 

Enjoy your quest for the perfect HDR!

 

and if you’ve found it, let us know of course! :)

 

Christiaan

 

I know, I already posted shots of this location. But I really love it so forgive me :)

 

Take a look at my 2012 pictures

 

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Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

ISO 200; f/11

 

HDR from single 3 shots (-2; 0; +2 EV), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

  

First time up the tower, very impressive view of the city all around - shot this with the Zeiss 21mm and 5d mark II, pulled some details from bracketed HDR and hdrsoft 32 bit lightroom plugin.

Photo Project 365: Day 1 - January 1, 2011

Week one theme: HDR

 

With this image I was in a hurry. I had the idea of shooting the creek by my house on the way home today from a new years eve party I attended last night. I had company with me and time was limited so I walked to the creek and set up the tripod, fired off a bunch of shots, and went over it real fast on the computer when I got home.

 

So before midnight I was experimenting in CS5 and trying new things and wasn't happy with what I had done but in the last few minutes I tried something and was happy with it considering I was rushing and just trying new things. Today I should make the deadline with no problems... hopefully.

 

Camera: Canon 40D

Lens: Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 (11mm)

Tripod: Manfrotto 055XPROB + Manfrotto 498RC2 Ball Head

HDR (3 exposures)

Software: Adobe Lightroom 3, hdrsoft Photomatix Pro 3.2, Adobe Photoshop CS5

Dell U2311H 23" IPS LCD Monitor ...Uncalibrated ... sorry :(

    

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I went for shooting the high waves, and ended up shooting the clouds

 

Santa Margherita Ligure, 17th December 2011

 

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Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

ISO 200; f/11

 

HDR from 3 exposures (-2; 0; 2), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Lens distortion correction with PTLens

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

  

One of the best sunsets I've ever seen.

 

I will share a lot of pictures of it (one is already in my Samsung Galaxy S2 set)

 

Camogli, 21st January 2012

 

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Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

ISO 200; f/13

 

HDR from 2 exposures (-2; 0), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Lens distortion correction with PTLens

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

This is one of the other shot's I got whilst in the Cradle Mountain National Park. The lake area reminds me of the crater of a volcano and I like how you are so high up that the peaks of the mountains are shrouded in clouds.

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

Other Software Used: OnOne Photosuite 9

  

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Photographed @ MSRA Back to the Fifties 2012

This is a multi-exposure blended high dynamic range image taken at Yellowstone National Park last summer. I felt that the use of hdr imaging brought out the magical color of the actual scene better than a standard one exposure image could accomplish.

 

This was handheld and shot on autoexposure bracketing ... one shot at plus 2.0, one shot at minus 2.0 and one shot correctly exposed. They were all then blended together using Photomatix software.

 

If you'd like to try out the software, you can download a free trial copy at

 

www.hdrsoft.com

A different approach from the one I use normally for HDR...this time I left the mountains undexposed and I tried to recover the maximum detail in the moon and the clouds. It is less "realistic" but I like it.

 

Take a look at my 2011 pictures

 

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Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Nikon 55-200 VR

ISO 200; f/11

 

HDR from 3 exposures (-2; 0; +2), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

  

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Best view on black !

 

Processing by myself

 

Picture by HDR Shooter (Miroslav Petrasko) :

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I shared an image similar to this one a while back but decided to reprocess it last night. The previous image had been processed using traditional HDR techniques; tonemapping, corrections in Photoshop, etc. The image below has been processed using the 32 bit Lightroom technique. In other words, no tonemapping via Photomatix or the like.

 

I used 5 bracketed images and then exported them to the "merge to 32 bit" plugin provided by HDRsoft. This merely brings a 32 bit image back into LR for further processing. No halos, no ghosts, no crap, just pure dynamic range! I'm loving this newer technique, as it yields the closest image to what I remember.

 

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Dramatic sky and sea, good to shot with a wiiiiiiideangle.

 

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LOCATION AND DATE / DATA e LUOGO DI SCATTO

Santa Margherita Ligure (Liguria, Italy), 17th December 2011

 

CAMERA

Nikon D5000

 

LENS - OBIETTIVO

Grandangolo, wideangle Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

  

SHOT DATA - DATI DI SCATTO

ISO 200; f/11

Other EXIF on flickr / Altri EXIF su flickr

 

WORKFLOW / FLUSSO DI LAVORO

° Rename: XnView

° HDR from 3 exposures (-2; 0; +2), handheld

° HDR Processing: Photomatix Pro

° Noise reduction / Riduzione rumore: Noiseware Professional

° Straightening: GIMP

° Cropping: GIMP

° Curve correction / Correzione curve: GIMP

° Resizing, watermark: Fastone resizer

Want to learn how this photo was created?

View this HDR Photo Before and After.

 

Or go directly to My HDR Tutorial

 

For HDR tips, tutorials, and to view HDR Photography before and afters, visit: www.blamethemonkey.com

 

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If the light is right

 

Golden Hour in Venice is quite a sight. With the right weather conditions, everything seems to sing. No matter what direction you look, there are stunning golden highlights and long dramatic shadows. It’s truly a wonderful time to be walking the streets.

 

If you view the before and after comparison you will notice that the neutral exposure has a blown out sky. Since the sun is so low in the sky, the overall brightness increases by quite a bit. Even though there are beautiful clouds and atmospheric details, you lose them in a single exposure. That alone makes this shot a perfect candidate for HDR Processing.

 

If your camera has Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB), enable it and set it to capture -2, 0, +2. That’s 2 stops (of light) darker and 2 stops lighter than the neutral (0) exposure. Like this photo, those 3 exposures, some Tone Mapping in Photomatix & a bit of Photoshop magic should give you some nice results.

 

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Finally, I managed to process all of my summer vacation Trentino's shots. I will keep sharing them through this year.

 

This is one of my preferred locations, Carezza Lake. HDR + reflection, a good wedding, well celebrated by a wideangle...enjoy it :)

 

Take a look at my 2011 pictures

 

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Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

ISO 200; f/11

 

HDR from 2 exposures (-2; 0), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

  

Hey Everyone! Thanks so much for all your compliments and votes on the CaptureMusicCity site. Thanks to you this shot made the cover! I couldn't be more excited and honored. So thank you thank you thank you.

 

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HDR is a funny thing. You just never know how things are going to turn out until you get back to the computer.

 

I honestly feel like this is my most refined and well balanced shot to this day. This is HDR from 5exp (using Photomatix 3.0, which I HIGHLY recommend). I generally shoot 3exp because that's what the D70s does, but I can really tell the difference with 5exp (and if you don't have a bunch of speedy clouds up there, you've got the time to manually set the exposures).

 

View On Black

 

Explore: 7 (wow. that's my highest ever!)

Here is what it feels like to stand next to the Petronas Twin Towers, in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, at night time. The building is a monster and can be seen from all over the city.

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

Other Software Used: OnOne Photosuite 9

The Story

 

One of my favourite UK holiday destinations is the quaint fishing village of Mevagissey on the Cornish South coast.

Still a fully working fishing village its Harbour is always a hive of activity.

The fish and chips are obviously excellent or if you prefer the Cornish Pasty’s are fantastic.

When the sea is calm the Inner Harbour has fantastic reflections as seen in this photo. You are lucky to get such calmness in the outer harbour, especially with the frequent movement of fishing and pleasure craft.

This shot was taken in the springtime as the sun was about to set hence the beautiful colours in the sky.

 

The Shot

 

This is from a single RAW file taken with a Nikon D200 and a 12-24mm wide angle zoom lens.

Opened with Photomatix .

The resulting file then had the saturations and sharpness adjusted

Sensor dust spots and blemishes removed and frame added.

 

The Music

 

Hues Corporation – Rock The Boat

 

The Book

 

Menhardoc - A Tale of Cornish Nets and Mines

by George Manville Fenn

 

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The above image was taken in Chester Cathedral cloisters and then used for a Lightroom / Photomatix HDR demo that I did on Thursday 7th June 2012 for Welshot Imaging.

 

It was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II with a 17-40 F4L lens in Auto Exposure Braketing mode (-2, 0, +2) and then the resultant images where processed using Adobe Lightroom and HDR Softs Photomatix.

 

For more more information about Welshot Imaging see their website here:

www.welshotimaging.co.uk/

 

For more information about Photomatix see their web site:

www.hdrsoft.com/

 

Fast Fact

 

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

 

Credit

 

Dedicated to the most beautiful person in my life right now; my Sheema; Thank you so much for always being there even in the darkest hours of my life, you're always there to give light to every black hole I should have stepped into; Thank you for giving your exhaustive patience and time accompanying me on this outrageous waylay shoot. Loving you much, more than you can ever imagine.

 

Location

 

RCBC Plaza, Makati City, Philippines

 

Processing

 

□ Hand Held Photography using Canon EOS 7D

□ Three (3) Stitched Vertical Panorama Image

□ Standard Three (3) Bracketed Exposures (-2...0...+2) EV @ ISO 100 on each RAW Image

□ Three (3) Tonemapped Images merged into a Vertorama using A.P. CS3 Photomerge

□ Generated HDR Image using Tonemapped Details Enhancer ж Photomatix Pro3.2

□ Post-Processing and Final Touch using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows

 

Patent

 

This image is copyrighted to The Doctor © 2012 Mario G. Pinlac II

 

Any users, found to replicate, reproduce, circulate, distribute, download, manipulate or otherwise use my images without my written consent will be in breach of copyright laws

as well as contract laws.

 

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It was a beautiful and easy walk, and the view was very good!

After taking this picture, I had a great lunch behind the shed! (the location of my only explored picture).

 

It is strongly recommended to view it on Black: press "L"

 

Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

ISO 200; f/11

 

HDR from 3 exposures (-2; 0; +2), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro (auto deghosting)

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

This area is the Freycinet National park and just around the corner is the bay of fires... Obviously named after the red rocks littered up and down the coast. They really are this vibrant !

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

Other Software Used: OnOne Photosuite 9

  

More images from Australian and Japan here www.lukezeme.com

 

This is the Most famous Coast line in Australia known as Surfer's Paradise on the Gold Coast in South-East Queensland. I had to go up 77 stories to get this kind of perspective. Just 2 weeks ago I had a view across Tokyo Japan, a city of 20 million people, from 60 stories up but this I have to say is a beautiful view and has my heart, as it is my home :-) Everyone always has a sense of nostalgia for their own country

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

Other Software Used: OnOne Photosuite 9

  

The complete write up on this image is here at www.lukezeme.com

After walking across the Harbour Bridge, the night before, I glanced over and saw this park. I knew instantly it would be the perfect spot to have a romantic picnic with Jenn and enjoy the sunset. It also would be a good spot to take some photo's and luckily my wife was very understanding about me slipping away after our picnic and doing some photography.

 

We got to the park early with some "take away" we got earlier from the mall food court where the "Sydney Sky Tower" attraction was. We sat on a bench and enjoyed talking, eating, and taking it all in!

 

There were all kinds of people in the park. Couples who had the same idea we did, other's were taking a workout class that just looked brutal, and a birthday party with a group of friends drinking wine and having a good time. We also ran into an older woman who took special interest in my camera and us. She lived just down the street and every night she walked down to the park to enjoy the sunset. After talking to her for a bit we began to pickup on some signs of early stages of dementia. She was repeating certain memories about herself a lot and you could tell she was a little disoriented but still pretty functional. She was such a sweet lady. We both thought about her a lot afterwards hoping for good things for her in the future.

 

It was a good night, and wonderful to spend time with my sweet wife!

How this shot was made:

Canon 5D mkII, 16-35mm f2.8L II

28mm F9, ISO 640, at 13sec (Base Exposure)

 

5 Bracketed exposures (-2,-1,0,+1,+2) taken on location. Exported 5 exposures to HDRsoft's Merge to 32-bit tiff plug-in. Lightroom adjustments on the 32bit tiff to get it as close to final as I could. Further adjustments in photoshop, including sharpening using "Highpass" filter, and some luminance masking adjustments for saturation to the sky, and healing brush touch ups.

 

If you want more info on how I do my processing. Check out my tutorial on the Merge to 32-bit HDR method: www.joshuaguntherphotography.com/merge-to-32-bit-hdr-tuto...

A multiple exposure blended shot taken with a Nikon D70....one over exposed, one under exposed and one correctly exposed. The HDR image was rendered with Photomatix software.

 

I believe it is much better when viewed at the larger sizes.

 

You can obtain a free trial of Photomatix at

 

www.hdrsoft.com

  

processed with photomatix hdr.https://www.hdrsoft.com/

Explored

 

Sunday June 13, 2010 | Highest Position No. 41

 

Dedication

 

This is for my very dear friend and co-photographer Sweet Caroline who welcomed us grandly and showed us the way. Thank you so much for extending all your effort from day one until we left. Youre the best tour guide ever, especially the night at Jack's Ridge. ж

 

Fast Fact

 

Our first day road trip was a twister, we had an enormous slow head start, approaching a long stretch of bad weather along the Province of Bukidnon, good thing we were welcomed by a sweet cloudy weather upon entering the City's grand territory.

 

By the way, Im doing an HDR series from my recent road trip and summer end vacation last month, besides I sorely missed processing and uploading my HDRs.

 

Processing

□ Three (3) Stitched Panorama Image

□ Standard Three (3) Bracketed Exposures (-2...0...+2) EV @ ISO 100 on each RAW Image

□ Generated HDR Image using Tonemapped Details Enhancer ж Photomatix Pro3.2

□ Three (3) Tonemapped Images merged into a Panorama using A.P.CS3 Photomerge

□ Post-Processing and Final Touch using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows

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Refections ( Yansıma ) at the entrance of Olympos...

 

My first attempts at HDR... I also like this possibly use of treatment because my end result is to enlarge these types of photos from framing..

 

I have downloaded the trail version of Photomatix....to try it out for awhile to see if I like it or not...sorry for the watermarks on the photos but this is just a test using HDR....I did take many bracketed photos over the weekend as the clouds and lighting seemed to be the perfect chance to test this out....

 

After trying out a few of these images in HDR I am now seriously considering this program ..because the effects are so cool especially on cloudy days to bring out colors and details etc.

 

This is a three exposure HDR image.

 

Do you like this version ??? I may invest in the program a little bit down the road..

 

High Dynamic Range (HDR) image using three photographs of the same scene taken under different exposures, and how to process the HDR image in order to reveal its details in highlights and shadows.

 

www.hdrsoft.com/

 

Auto-Exposure Bracketing (AEB), select the Continuous Shooting mode, make sure the camera is set to Aperture Priority, and select an exposure increment of +/-2.

Taken from Antlers Park Lakeville, Minnesota

This was shot from the Delta Sky Club on E-Concourse one evening.

Here's one from Surfer's Paradise. I shot this one night after doing a shoot for a client and forgot about it till today. This is a 5 bracket HDR on a Nikon D800 and I made exposure times of 2,4,8,16 and 30 seconds. Processing was done in Photomatix, Perfect Effects 4 and Photoshop.

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

Other Software Used: OnOne Photosuite 9

 

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Combined use of single raw HDR and on-camera flash. The non-hdr shot was quite good, but HDR added some more detail.

 

I tried to balance the composition putting the shell in one corner and the sun in the opposite.

 

Tunis, september 2011

 

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Camera: Canon Powershot S90

 

HDR from single raw shot, handheld

 

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Lens distortion correction with PTLens

Cropping and Curve correction with GIMP

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

Taken this morning on my way to work. Southern NH is just starting to see widespread color. The clouds make for an interesting image. 3 bracketed images combined in Photomatix and further edited in Photoshop.

9164 views now....... Thanks everyone :-))

 

The Story

 

As part of a three week Road Trip to the USA last summer our journey took us to California, Arizona and Nevada.

After a visit to the Grand Canyon the next stop on 10 August, was Las Vegas, having never been there before we weren't really sure what to expect, but nothing could have prepared us for what was to follow.

From the sadness of people trying to sell the services of "Girls" on every corner, to the amazing magic fountains of the Bellagio it was a photographers dream.

This photo was taken outside the Paris hotel complete with half size Eiffel Tower and Arc De Triumph.

 

The Shot

 

5 exposure shot (-2,-1,0,+1,+2) from using my D200 and a Nikon 12-24mm lens on a tripod

Opened in Photomatix with detail enhancer set to default.

Then modified using Topaz Adjust , to increase colour and sharpness.

Saturation then boosted and areas of noise reduced.

The sky was darkened and the noise reduced with Noiseware .

Sensor dust spots and blemishes removed and frame and title added.

 

The Music

 

Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas

 

The Book

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

 

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GSTA's 56th Annual Rod and Custom Spectacular 2012 (Explore 4-22-2012)

This was taken yesterday at a local wetlands. This is the first landscape photograph that I have uploaded for the public to see. I have actually only taken a handful of landscape photographs but that is about to change. Please let me know what you might like or dislike about this photograph. I appreciate any comments or advice. Thanks for taking the time to stop by. Take care!

 

Camera: Canon 40D

Lens: Tokina 11-16 f/2.8 (11mm)

Tripod: Manfrotto 055XPROB + Manfrotto 498RC2 Ball Head

Software: Adobe Lightroom 3, hdrsoft Photomatix Pro 3.2, Adobe Photoshop CS5

Dell U2311H 23" IPS LCD Monitor ...Uncalibrated ... sorry :(

 

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Taken on Januray, 2011

 

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Camera: Nikon D60

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

 

HDR from single raw shot

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Community edition

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

Ronchi Cableway.

Another good cocktail with wideangle and HDR, I'm really satisfied of the level of detail reached.

Compositionally speaking, all the lines lead to the exit door...and to the sun :)

 

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Camera: Nikon D5000

Lens: Sigma 8-16mm f/4.5-5.6 DC (8 mm)

ISO 200; f/11

 

HDR from 3 shots (-2; 0; +2 EV), handheld

Processed with Photomatix Pro

Noise reduction with Noiseware Professional

Curve correction with GIMP.

Resizing and watermark with Fastone resizer

  

Was over in San Francisco for business two weeks ago, took the opportunity to take a photo of the bridge in all its glory. I'm sure this shot has been taken endless times but what the heck, it's one hell of a view! Bracketed photo with HDRsofts 32 bit plugin for lightroom and shot with the spectacular zeiss 21mm distagon

 

As always you learn something from every shoot, this time it's to make sure you wear comfortable shoes before heading out on a day long walk around tour of the city, must of got 5 blisters the next day but it was defo worth it ^^

  

The Story

 

Looking like a tropical beach in a far away land this is actually in the middle of a wood oin the Suffolk countryside. In the distance a powerful fountain sprays water into the air

 

The Shot

 

3 exposure shot (-1,0,+1,) from using my D200 and a Nikon 12-24mm lens handheld

 

Opened in Photomatix with detail enhancer set to default.

Then modified using Topaz Adjust , to increase colour and sharpness.

Saturation then boosted and areas of noise reduced.

The sky was darkened and the noise reduced with Noiseware .

Sensor dust spots and blemishes removed and frame added.

 

The Music

 

Martha and the Muffins- Echo Beach

 

The Book

 

The Beachcomber by Josephine Cox

 

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We took Rosie for a walk up the castle this afternoon.....I wanted to take some bracketed shots to try out a free trial of photomatix. It's a bit like doing HDR or tonemapping. Because it's a free trial you end up with the watermark, you can see it across the tower.

I added the border and text in picnik.

Shot at Folly Beach, SC

At night, after the rain, Kyoto lights up with a sea of colour. I would wander the streets with my playlist on my iphone going to get

the creative juices flowing. When most of the crowds have all headed home is when you can enjoy Kyoto on another level...

 

HDR Software used- Photomatix 5 Get 15% off Photomatix with the code LukeZemePhotography

 

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