How to Make HDR Images

[paf]

There's a simple and easy tutorial here for beginers about How to Make HDR Images, in case anyone is interested.

[lello.siddi]

Uuuh... I really love HDR images! Here are some pics I did when I was in Sicily (Italy) last year. It is in Selinunte, in the Province of Trapani. Enjoy...

PS: By the way, the tutorial you've posted, in my humble opinion, is not that good. :P
I wiill try to find something else!

[Ceyfer √]

HDR can be achieved thru your camera itself and or via post-processing stage. It is indeed brings more life to your canvass. One tip, always use this technique to make your image more realistic not fantastic!

Here's my HDR site reference.
http://www.hdrlabs.com/news/index.php

My favorite tool/plugin.
http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/suite/perfect-effects/?ind

[paf]

Uuuh... I really love HDR images! Here are some pics I did when I was in Sicily (Italy) last year. It is in Selinunte, in the Province of Trapani. Enjoy...

Great pictures, lello . Congratulations !

PS: By the way, the tutorial you've posted, in my humble opinion, is not that good. :P
I wiill try to find something else!

I'm just an amateur newbie concerning photography, and I don't even have a camera that can shoot on raw. So, I would really appreciate to know more, and every tutorial is welcome . Thank you very much, lello.

---------- Post added at 07:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:48 PM ----------

HDR can be achieved thru your camera itself and or via post-processing stage. It is indeed brings more life to your canvass. One tip, always use this technique to make your image more realistic not fantastic!

Here's my HDR site reference.
http://www.hdrlabs.com/news/index.php

My favorite tool/plugin.
http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/suite/perfect-effects/?ind

Hey Ceyfer, glad to see you . Thank you very much for the references .

[lello.siddi]

Great pictures, lello . Congratulations !

Thank you! And I think the site ceyfer provided is pretty interesting. I am going to have a look at it right now.
And, by the way, I perfectly agree with ceyfer regarding the tip. At first, one could be tempted to reach such a "fantastic" effect. But High Dynamic Range method is best suited when you try to reach a more realistic effect. I am always trying to recover what my impression of the composition was. Human eyes have really a huge dynamic... and HDR can help in approximating our natural high dynamic!

Since ever I am using Photomatix and most of the time I use to precess three *.jpg images captured with automatic bracketing at -2, 0, +2. That's it. I use a SLR canon 1000D.
The most difficult part is to tune the numerous parameters that the sw has got. Most of them, unfortunately, are not so much intuitive...
Just one needs simply to practice a little bit.

I remember a site with which I started knowing this technique. But I couldn't find it today. I will post it in the future if I can get it!
Well... I'm now going to have a deep look at that site.
Cheers, my friends...

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Here, I've just read a useful introduction. Then, there are also some free tools! I've tried the first one (picturenaut). Pretty fair results... but the alignment tool is not that precise. You should use a tripod for sure....
Cheers!

[paf]

At first, one could be tempted to reach such a "fantastic" effect. But High Dynamic Range method is best suited when you try to reach a more realistic effect. I am always trying to recover what my impression of the composition was. Human eyes have really a huge dynamic... and HDR can help in approximating our natural high dynamic!

I totally agree with you, lello. I've seen lots of these "fantastic" pictures, but most of them seemed too "artificial" to me. I don't know anything about this HDR technics, but when I saw those "fantastic, very shining and bright" pictures I felt a little bit desapointed, I thought that maybe the technics could be used to reproduce in a more realistic way the things we see. It was really interesting to read your post, you translated to words what I've felt. Thanks my friend .