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detail enhancer is more pop and sizzle, if pushed hard it can get cartoon like..
tone compressor is very normal looking ,exposure fusion is the plainest.
both tone compressor and exposure fusion require lots of post processing to look the way i want them to..
detail enhancer looks more finished but its very compressed and needs contrast and a little sharpening afterward.
i find unless you have nice blue shies with white puffy clouds i try not to have much sky in my hdr's with detail enhancer. halos, gray stormy clouds and wierd colorations can give your photos all the worst traits detail enhancing can give you. ill try to stick to objects on those days.
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Last edited by mathjak107; 09-12-2010 at 11:13 AM..
These might not be the best pics as examples. I chose it because the other images I have come out so fuzzy. I'm not sure how the detail is retained during HDR processing. I also attempted to layer mask one of the original files with the HDR image, but I couldn't get them to align right and it made it more fuzzy. Any way, I'd like your critique for what I have so far.
What I've done is opened the three exposures in DPP and did a high tone curve adjustment and saved. Then, I went into photomatrix and generated an HDR image and played with the sliders. Next, into elements and did some sharpening and adjusted light levels a bit more. What else can I do to improve? I'm really missing the mark on how to create cool HDR images.
This is with tone enhancement...
This is with tone compression...
And this guy... I can see the ghosting? or whatever that is above the trees. The highlights are in the original pics, but are more pronounced here.
detail enhancer is more pop and sizzle, if pushed hard it can get cartoon like..
tone compressor is very normal looking ,exposure fusion is the plainest.
both tone compressor and exposure fusion require lots of post processing to look the way i want them to..
detail enhancer looks more finished but its very compressed and needs contrast and a little sharpening afterward.
i find unless you have nice blue shies with white puffy clouds i try not to have much sky in my hdr's with detail enhancer. halos, gray stormy clouds and wierd colorations can give your photos all the worst traits detail enhancing can give you. ill try to stick to objects on those days.
That's what I was thinking as well. The apple orchard might not have been the best choice to start with. An object might have been easier for me to focus on, but I've seen amazing field shots with HDR and I just don't get how you guys do it.
your #1 came out okay for a first time. no halos..
thats why when the sky is dark blue its okay to include sky. apple orchard has issues in the sky....
last one is not bad.... your on your way now to the dark side lol
your #1 came out okay for a first time. no halos..
thats why when the sky is dark blue its okay to include sky. apple orchard has issues in the sky....
Your pics are so crisp. How do you do that? lol
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last one is not bad.... your on your way now to the dark side lol
Yea, that last one of the boy had to be masked. He was just some random kid in front of me and he didn't stay still, so I had to remove him from two of the pics,which I did the long and tedious way of erasing. I'm sure there is a better way. And yep, on the way to the dark side. I'm sitting here playing with pics instead of cleaning my house lol.
I think the first two look fine. The third one has halos, and what I assume is a really bad cloning job on removing something from the water. Keep practicing!
I think the first two look fine. The third one has halos, and what I assume is a really bad cloning job on removing something from the water. Keep practicing!
Yea, there were ghost images of the boy on either side of him that I stamped out. I'm finding it hard to work with it because everything looks so fuzzy that I feel like I have the wrong script on my glasses.
I will keep practicing for sure. I hope just having elements will be good enough for post-processing.
Ghost images of the boy? Did you make sure you had the checkbox turned on in Photomatix to prevent them? I've had pretty good luck with it, although I haven't used it much.
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First HDR attempts
