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Old 09-25-2009, 02:46 AM
 
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what i did is take a rather mundane shot of a scene on a day where it was just impossible to take a picture without either over exposing the skys or crushing the darker areas. the light was just as horrible as could be.

picture 1 was shot with a nikon d80 at zero compensation and is the best overall shot i could get. typically this is the shot you would walk away with,pretty crappy,everything is washed out.

i then took 2 more shots at +2 and -2 exposures, brought them into photomatix and fused all 3 together. got kind of a super exposure, no enhancements or light inversions done.

that is photo 2, its called exposure fusion.

photo 3 is 3 exposures put together and enhanced using light inversions and is a full hdr pushed a little in the inversions area...

overall picture 2 is probley the nicest of the 3 being very natural and very extended but not as showy, un-natural and flashy as the enhanced hdr in 3.

i picked these pictures because normally i would delete these shots but i used them as examples of what you can do with bad exposures and shots






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Old 09-25-2009, 06:46 AM
 
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Nice on what you did with them. Out of those 3, which one would be the closest to what your actual eye saw?
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Old 09-25-2009, 06:55 AM
 
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none, as our eyes see at ratios of contrast, color and sharpening that our cameras only dream about but i would have to say #2 .... remember contrast,saturation and sharpening though in digital are all subject to the curve either built into your camera or what you use later on... there is no such thing as a color curve that comes out of the camera that matches what you see ....... you have to create it so it is all very subjective.

Every camera has different levels of contrast, sharpeness and saturation built in... you cant have an image without it.....

how it compares to the origional is tough to say as it varies with white balance and lighting too

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Old 09-25-2009, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Greater Greenville, SC
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It's nice to see what can be done with a throwaway shot. Thanks for sharing this.

I often save my bad shots, either to use later when I've learned more about post-processing or to turn into photo art, which always require a good photo to begin with. Also, looking at a folder of your bad photos keeps you humble!
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Old 09-25-2009, 01:23 PM
 
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Everytime we shoot marilyn and i delete about 300 photos and get about 20 or so we consider keepers ,... talk about humbling
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Old 09-27-2009, 09:13 AM
 
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heres another comparison, i chose to use this photo not because its a good composition, which its not but because it had so many different parts to it where differences can be seen. pay particular attention to the trees on the left and the sky

photo 1 is the unedited raw straight of of camera, boring, dark shadows not visible , this was the best exposure out of 5 i could get . if i wasnt using hdr this would be my basic picture before playing around trying to make it
all purdy, however that shadow information in the trees on left are gone .

photo 2 is one exposure only enhanced in photomatix

photo 3 is 5 pictures merged , a little level and curves and sharpening

photo 4 is full blown 5 pictures in hdr using detail enhancer mode

i think has the most natural potential if you spend time editing it further, 4 is flashy and showy but isnt natural at all.








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