Comments on: High Dynamic Range (HDR) http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:53:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Doug http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/#comment-34574 Doug Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:14:35 +0000 http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/#comment-34574 I can't stop ... here's a shot of <a href="http://www.mahugh.com/images/blog/2008/02/17/bldg36.jpg" rel="nofollow">my building on the Redmond campus</a> this morning when I got to the office. No problems getting a good parking spot today. I can’t stop … here’s a shot of my building on the Redmond campus this morning when I got to the office. No problems getting a good parking spot today.

]]> By: Doug http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/#comment-34490 Doug Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:54:20 +0000 http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/#comment-34490 These are each made from three exposures. On the Seattle skyline they're 2 F-stops apart, and on the I-90 bridge they're 1.3 F-stops apart. And the way I did this was kind of lazy compared to what he does in that tutorial, because I just wanted to try the basic concept. There are many options in Photomatix that I've not experimented with yet. <i>Added later ...</i> I've been playing around with Photomatix and am starting to get the hang of this. <a href="http://www.mahugh.com/images/blog/2008/02/15/image03.jpg" rel="nofollow">Here's an HDR shot of our neighborhood</a>, taken at 5AM this morning from the I-90 bridge. (Our house is right in the center.) And <a href="http://www.mahugh.com/images/blog/2008/02/15/image04.jpg" rel="nofollow">here's a shot from the same place</a>, but facing west instead of north. (For our Chicago friends, that's the final mile of the Kennedy -- I-90 ends shortly after that tunnel.) These are each made from three exposures. On the Seattle skyline they’re 2 F-stops apart, and on the I-90 bridge they’re 1.3 F-stops apart. And the way I did this was kind of lazy compared to what he does in that tutorial, because I just wanted to try the basic concept. There are many options in Photomatix that I’ve not experimented with yet.

Added later … I’ve been playing around with Photomatix and am starting to get the hang of this. Here’s an HDR shot of our neighborhood, taken at 5AM this morning from the I-90 bridge. (Our house is right in the center.) And here’s a shot from the same place, but facing west instead of north. (For our Chicago friends, that’s the final mile of the Kennedy — I-90 ends shortly after that tunnel.)

]]> By: Tom http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/#comment-34484 Tom Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:56:25 +0000 http://chilco.textdrive.com/~dmahugh/2008/02/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr/#comment-34484 Wow -- some of the shots in the tutorial you link to look like screenshots from video games. That's cool. Your bridge shot is great, too -- how many exposures are contained in that one? Just two? One for the foreground and one for the buildings in the background? Wow — some of the shots in the tutorial you link to look like screenshots from video games. That’s cool. Your bridge shot is great, too — how many exposures are contained in that one? Just two? One for the foreground and one for the buildings in the background?

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