My neighborhood in HDR (and some tutorials!)
Yesterday after work, my girlfriend and I took the dog for a nice walk around the neighborhood… I grabbed my camera mainly because I was excited to edit photos on my new computer and also because I hadn’t gone out shooting in over a week! Unfortunately, it started raining about 20 minutes into our walk but I did manage to get off a few HDR photos…
Also, after images, I’ve included some links to excellent HDR tutorials…
Click on each image for a larger version…
A few HDR tutorials
Since this blog started, I’ve had a number of people ask me for tips on creating HDR images. I considered writing my own small tutorial but, since there is so much good content out there, I decided I’d just point everyone to a few of the best:
- Stuck in Customs – This is the tutorial I used when first learning High Dynamic Range imaging.
- Wikipedia entry on HDR
- Fotohacker HDR Tutorial – Just published a few days ago!
- Vanilla Days HDR Tutorial
- PopPhoto HDR Tutorial
I hope these links come in handy! I look forward to seeing everyone’s HDR images!
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March 5th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Nice cloud action Shawn,
Try a Curves adjustment layer, pull down some of the mids,
also navigate to 100%
Fliter- Sharpen- Unsharpmask- Amt 85, Rad 1, Thres 4
If your were not mac I would tell you to check out ReDynaMix
See you Saturday
March 5th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Oh BTW you can also reopen HDR image in Camera raw and use the clarity slider before doing other adjustments
March 5th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Sweet! Thanks for the tips Mike! Since I’m new to Photoshop, I haven’t quite delved into the in-depth editing for my HDRs… It’s actually next on my list of the million Photoshop things to learn.
Thanks!
March 5th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Great looking images. Thanks for the links and thanks Mike for the tips.
Beau
March 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Thanks Beau!
March 5th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Love the mood of the last photo. Great work!
March 6th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Thanks kRIZ!
March 7th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Very nice, your shots are always inspiring to try HDR, i guess eventually i will. =)
I second the suggestion about a little USM on all of these, even on an LCD they could use a bit more sharpness.
I also want to edit out the pole with the ‘no parking’ sign on the last one — somehow it gets way more attention than it needs.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Thanks MrYu!
I agree on the sharpness… I think that might also be a symptom of hand-held HDR shots. Getting it perfectly still for the three bracketed shots is tough and Photomatix can only do so much when aligning them. As soon as I begin learning my Photoshop foo (an use a tripod for these more often) I hope to get rid of that.
Thanks!