Landscape photos anyone?

[trelaflip]

Its worse then the Lucis bug! I cant stop!

I got some weird red line going on above the train carts and cant figure out why its there. More practice is needed.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/507421997_28b4a3a417.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/507424426_99b1242cd9.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/507435450_c4a5d73fcb.jpg

[Nicole]

Oh wow... Those are some really dramatic shots :) Nice :)

[photofixation]

good one

how did you gave this treatment ?

[trelaflip]

good one

how did you gave this treatment ?

thanks for the comments

each photo was taken at 3 different exposures. then i converted them to hdr with photomatrix.

[Saralonde]

Really good work with the hdr. Love those skies!

[Angela]

Nicely done! I especially like the sky in the 3rd shot.

[higabyte]

those are amazing, great job!

[arh326]

Noob question...which exposures did you use?

[trelaflip]

Noob question...which exposures did you use?

1st shot 0
2nd show -2
3rd shot +2

[arh326]

Thanks!!!!

[mdwsta4]

nice shots, but i'd rather see the originals. as cool as HDR images can be, those look way too fake to me. just like the 'dave hill look' i think people are playing these methods out and using photoshop a bit too much to manipulate their photos.

[trelaflip]

nice shots, but i'd rather see the originals. as cool as HDR images can be, those look way too fake to me. just like the 'dave hill look' i think people are playing these methods out and using photoshop a bit too much to manipulate their photos.

Actually the only photoshop on them is USM. Everything done in photomatrix. The whole point of HDR is to create that surreal look.

[terryjoey]

I view in several ways, pictures, art, portrait, this falls in the art category, I really enjoyed them.

[mdwsta4]

not necessarily. the point is to keep detail in the shadows and highlights, not to make them look like there's from another world. plenty of HDR images look natural.

Actually the only photoshop on them is USM. Everything done in photomatrix. The whole point of HDR is to create that surreal look.

[trelaflip]

not necessarily. the point is to keep detail in the shadows and highlights, not to make them look like there's from another world. plenty of HDR images look natural.

that is also true but that is not what i was going for. i prefer the arty type stuff myself.

[mdwsta4]

to each their own

[xxpinballxx]

I gotta get that photomatrix software. I lve the effects you are getting with it.
Now I have seen a bunch with landscapes but what other things can you shoot and get dramatic results.....what does it do with a protrait or just some different objects? I suppose you need some different depths and lighting differences in the shot right?

[rdaw]

I gotta get that photomatrix software. I lve the effects you are getting with it.
Now I have seen a bunch with landscapes but what other things can you shoot and get dramatic results.....what does it do with a protrait or just some different objects? I suppose you need some different depths and lighting differences in the shot right?

Check out the flickr group at http://www.flickr.com/groups/qualityhdr/
There are HDR pics of almost everything there - some portraits, and some great still-lifes. According to my (limited) knowledge of HDR you shouldn't mess with aperture (if that's what you mean by depths) - you keep the same aperture and take multiple correct, over- and under-exposed shots using shutter speed, then stack them one on top of each other. And if you have Photoshop CS2, there's a good tutorial here (http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html), instead of using photomatrix - actually, there's probably HDR tutorials for almost any editing package you may have out there...

[xxpinballxx]

i think the photos with water and sky seem to turn out the most dramatic....
ina real sort of feel. Not totally transformed but obviously not unaltered photography either. I am going to start working on this.....