Hi all.. just wanna share my HDR pics... got little only...i'll upload slowly when PP is finish la.. right now, still finding new and nice subject to shoot! I'm just amatur and photography is just hobby... some taken by D80 and some are from Nikon L6.. if u all pro enough, try guessing which are taken by DSLR and PnS camera!

First batch, euro tour series:

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This post has been edited by razuryza: Yesterday, 10:16 PM

3rd shot is awesome, definitely can feel the power in it. A very good attempt I must say

thanx! it was taken in scotland.. at a roadside... last winter (2006)

3rd is nice .

Hi, nice try with HDR, however if I may offer my two sen Almost all the pics are overly saturated, and many of them exhibit a total loss of detail in many highlight areas. I believe HDR is supposed to preserve as much highlight and shadow information as possible, not clipping them out entirely. Let's take them one pic at a time:

Pic 1) The sky is rendered a very unnatural blue with signs of clipping. Even the little bits of cloud at the bottom left of the Eiffel is blue in colour May I suggest a little less saturation and less strength on the Shadow/Highlights feature in Photoshop.

Pic 2) The tower is again over-saturated, with clipping of the tower's lights, rendering them into just a patch of yellow light. Also, the sky areas around the tree branches have a weird glow. Nice composition btw.

Pic 3) The overly blown out sun and the areas around it. Perhaps you should have taken another much darker exposure just for the sun? On the left side however the sky area is nicely done, as is the foreground. However, I feel that the poles are a little too bright, compared to their shadows in the grass. Nonetheless, this scene was composed very nicely (looks like something Ansel Adams would do)

Pic 4) Again many areas are clipped. Also, by removing too much contrast the whole scene looks like a painting. I notice also that you brought out too much of the shadow areas under the train, which shows up a lot of shadow noise.

Pic 5) No complaints here, nicely done. If I were to nitpick however I'd wish you composed a little higher; seeing more of the arches would have been nicer than seeing part of the floodlights used to light up the mural. Of course by tilting your cam higher the arches would cave in towards each other more, if you could move across the tracks (LOL) you could solve the problem.

Pic 6) Again you need to ease off on the color saturation a little The people in the background have orangey/red faces, just like the flowers

As for whether or not any of these were shot with a compact or DSLR, it's hard to say since all the pics are in 5:4 format which is typical of most digicams. Furthermore, it is hard to tell at this size. It seems as though they were all shot with a compact digicam except for maybe the indoor shots (4 & 5) and perhaps the sunset shot which by default many digicams would underexpose terribly unless it came with exposure comp.

Here's an example of what a reasonably nice HDR image looks like. Notice how almost all the highlights (except for the sun and small bits of the sun's reflection on the windows top right) are preserved, while the shadow details are intact. Even the shadow details of the trees top left are there, but they do not overpower the scene.

http://www.redferret.net/Images/hdrimages_small.jpg

Here are more examples of HDR http://www.pbase.com/duncansmith/hdr

IMO HDR in photography should aim to create images that reflect as much as possible what we would see with our own eyes. Anything more than that will "overcook" the image, resulting in less than ideal end results. Anyhow, thanks for sharing and I hope to see more of your pics in future!

Cheers.

thanx for the comment.. i'll try to improve on my others pic..thanz!

wow...all nice...very cool d picture...

teach me bro...

just google for HDR la.. me also like that at first...

5th Pic is COOL!

wow! too colorful... a little overdone i think...

another two pics...taken at ampang

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This post has been edited by razuryza: Dec 15 2007, 08:38 PM

Good series. Some might be a tab bit overly done though. Keep it as natural as possible and the outcome will be more pleasant..

all the pic look so fake....i think over do already

This is what HDR shall look like:

http://www.dpchallenge.com/challenge_resul...HALLENGE_ID=586

here we go..new pics..the dark series..huhu..(just becoz overall looks so dark )

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This post has been edited by razuryza: Dec 15 2007, 08:42 PM

gregy: a very inspiring link you got there

razuryza: #11 works for me but i think the horizon slanted a bit la haha but that shouldnt be a big problem, improve in time

one more extra before i start the masjid series...

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This post has been edited by razuryza: Dec 15 2007, 08:45 PM

How to do those effects? use photoshop?

these pics are using HDR.. high dynamic range.. to achive those effect, must shoot multiple exposures... the normal ones, the underexposed, and the overexposed..and then combine all the exposures to to achive the tone u want under HDR la.. for more info, just google it..this is just the simplest way that i can say... got lots of info and technique also software that can do HDR.. yes.. Photoshop also can generate HDR image.. CS2 and above la..

This post has been edited by razuryza: Dec 17 2007, 06:56 AM

new series..Masjid Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah series.. taken in the morning.. about 7am plus+

This post has been edited by razuryza: Dec 17 2007, 06:58 AM