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Posted 09/12/2010 - 15:13
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From the quick feed back I can think of one photo shoot that might work realy well. Durham cathederel might be a nice subject at night time when lite up.
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Posted 09/12/2010 - 17:38
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In camera HDR is useful when you need to preserve both highlights and shadows and you don't have time to do proper processing of the picture(s). You will never get what you can get with proper HDR processing, but it comes in real handy when taking pictures inside a building, and you still want to have the details you can see through the windows instead of a white blob.
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Posted 09/12/2010 - 19:44
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Any scene that isn't too busy - HDR takes the depth out of anything IMO. Once saw a HDR of a night cityscape. Hong Kong I think it was. the HDR totally ruined it. a real mess.
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Posted 09/12/2010 - 20:14
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I find some HDR shots straight from the camera can be quite bland however it can work really well with some landscapes, bringing a huge amount of detail to an otherwise bland sky.
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Posted 10/12/2010 - 10:37
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Thanks guys I can think of a few places localy to try this function out.
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Posted 10/12/2010 - 13:20
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The definition of a gentleman: someone who knows how to use HDR but chooses not too.
Ken
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“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Posted 10/12/2010 - 13:24
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gartmore wrote:
The definition of a gentleman: someone who knows how to use HDR but chooses not too.
Nominated as my favourite post of the month.
The definition of a gentleman: someone who knows how to use HDR but chooses not too.
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Andrew
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Posted 10/12/2010 - 20:37
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RAB wrote:
I find some HDR shots straight from the camera can be quite bland however it can work really well with some landscapes, bringing a huge amount of detail to an otherwise bland sky.
Lightroom's graduated filters do this admirably already
I find some HDR shots straight from the camera can be quite bland however it can work really well with some landscapes, bringing a huge amount of detail to an otherwise bland sky.
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Posted 10/12/2010 - 21:49
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It can work well with landscapes, and can also work well for indoor scenes where the outside is much brighter (i.e. sunny day) to avoid whiteout windows. However, exposing for the outside and using a flash/diffuser to make up the difference tends to work better in the latter case.
Smeggypants wrote:
Lightroom's graduated filters do this admirably already
Not when the clouds are blown out in the original RAW, they don't.
Lightroom's graduated filters do this admirably already
Posted 11/12/2010 - 08:27
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Another vote for Lightrooms grad filters - but of course only if you shoot RAW. I've recently started using them "the other way up" to lighten and apply other effects to a dark foreground. Can work very well.
Personally I've not seen much HDR work I've been convinced with. At the end of the day I aim for something that represents what I saw at the time and HDR usually doesn't. Always exceptions of course.
Where the dark areas are close to the camera a little discrete fill in flash can work wonders. Particularly as our cameras allow us to control the intensity!
Paul
Personally I've not seen much HDR work I've been convinced with. At the end of the day I aim for something that represents what I saw at the time and HDR usually doesn't. Always exceptions of course.
Where the dark areas are close to the camera a little discrete fill in flash can work wonders. Particularly as our cameras allow us to control the intensity!
Paul
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Posted 11/12/2010 - 10:08
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Go out and experiment gets my vote.
Hdr for some reason brings out the worst of people in photography circles. It's like you have stolen there soul the way they bang on about it.
Hdr for some reason brings out the worst of people in photography circles. It's like you have stolen there soul the way they bang on about it.
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