My first HDR shot

February 15th, 2007 by jennemede

HDR is the acronym for High Dynamic Range, first introduced to me by the hubby. Had some time this morning to play around with the camera (had a playdate but nobody turned up, pfft) and some software. Any experts reading this? I know this is slightly overexposed. I generated the image with a trial version of Photomatix and took the ‘cheat way’ of saving the image by PrintScreen-ing (the software only generated .tif images that for some reason my Photoshop could not open). Anyway, which looks better?

Will definitely spend more time playing around.

EDIT: I’ve played around with the tone-mapping bit, which as I discovered, was essential to producing a REAL HDR image, thanks to the hubby.

Check the results out:

Download a copy for your desktop! More shots and desktops of this rose and pinecones here.

Posted in Imperfect Everything

4 Responses

julie
February 15th, 2007 at 11:40 am
I like the second one - doesn’t look as blown out.
julie
February 15th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
…but upon further review, I have to say I really enjoy the color of the pink background in the first one.
Kelantan Gal
February 15th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I like the second one better. I can see the details of the rose clearer. But I guess it all depends on what you want to use the pic for. The first one gives me the feeling of “daze” like just woken up or kena kidnapped/drugged and then just woken up that sort of feeling… the mystery novel feeling.
German Vasquez, Jr.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:18 am
I was doing some research for HDR and stumbled upon your site. I am a novice photographer and have never done a HDR, but I have experience doing graphic and web design. Personally, I agree that the first rose is blown out, but I do like the brighter pink background. I like the rose head on the second image. I think the image with the tonal range (the one you offer as a background) is very noisy. Maybe you could cut the head off the second rose and paste it in the first and play with the levels/curves a bit to tone down the overexposed leaves in the first pic (the one in the foreground and one in the background.