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Gilly · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:54 am Post subject: My first foray into HDR........

Thought i'd try this pretend HDR (tonemapped) imaging malarky.......

Here is my first attempt:

Edited to respell my stupid spelling errors!
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hil26 · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:37 am Post subject:

first attempt!!!!!!

Not overdone and nice image
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jonH · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:29 pm Post subject:

yeah you can tell it's just tonemapped rather than hdr but not bad all the same Smile

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derek · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject:

well done that man Smile

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peteski · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:53 am Post subject:

Very well done!
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Gilly · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:48 pm Post subject:

Anybody notice the large black 'cat' on the left of the shot? It was pointed out to be over the weekend, and now its all I can see when I revisit the shot Sad

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chris82 · Stacker! Joined: 08 Nov 2006 Posts: 508 Location: Belfast

Yes I see it now,How did you avoid getting super noise in the blue sky.In my outdoor HDR shots I seem to get a really noisey sky no matter how much I try if there are no clouds that is.
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jonH · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject:

If you have some form of noise reduction software like noise ninja, use it before merging to hdr.

Tonemapping brings out the worst in noise so try to minimise it before you start.

I know everyone barks on about using raw for hdr but I never had any advantage from it and at least when shooting jpg there is some in-camera noise reduction going on. I have a 3 foot hdr on a canvas on my wall and i'll defy anyone to proove it's jpg ;)
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Gilly · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject:

I just had this shot printed up at 18 x 12, and the colours in print are even better than the on screen version....... Smile

As for noise - I shot this in RAW (but only once, and then took 7 exposures from it) but put the shot through some noise reduction software. Can't recall which one though Embarassed

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