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Have any of the photographers here messed around with HDR Imaging? I tried it a few times in Photoshop HDR merge, but they didn't come out that great. Anyway, I found out that you can download a free trial version of photomatix, which works much better. The only difference is that it leaves a photomatix watermark on your image. Here is a building of one of the cottages where I work, I cloned out the watermaks.
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Joined: Wed May 09, 2007 5:58 pm Posts: 1259 Location: Western Masshole Gender: Male
conoalias wrote:
those are some really nice pictures. where did you take these?
Thank you. Alright, in order: 1. the HDR is at my work in Salem, VA 2. Cumberland Gap, TN 3. Mount Holyoke College, Upper Pond, South Hadley, MA 4. Roanoke, VA 5. Roanoke, VA 6. McAfee Knob on the Appalachain Trail, Catawba, VA 7. McAfee Knob on the Appalachain Trail, Catawba, VA 8. St. Marys, PA 9. McAfee Knob on the Appalachain Trail, Catawba, VA 10. Crozet, VA
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Joined: Wed May 09, 2007 5:58 pm Posts: 1259 Location: Western Masshole Gender: Male
definitely download the trial version of photomatix when you do. It's really amazing what you can do. But it does border the line of pure art photography vs. digitally enhanced images.
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I think the other manual way is to set all the shots into different layers and mask the best exposure from each one. Either way, too much work for me. Where is that picture taken?
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I fiddled with one the other night. You gotta screw with the shadows and highlights too to get it to come out alright. I wasn't fully satisfied with my final product on what I worked on last night though. I might fiddle a little bit tonight too.
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I finally found a photo where the Orton Effect seems to work well. Took some time to get the proper shadow/highlights adjusted but I think I finally got it.
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