HDR, anyone else play?

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Originally Posted by GrummanFan

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Originally Posted by Derf

You got it so far from what you said...NOW IT IS TIME TO PLAY!

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I've finally started playing. I can't believe it took me so long...

http://dfalk.smugmug.com/photos/205622458-M.jpg

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I like the shot but it seems a bit dark. I notice that many of the night shots you have been doing are a bit dark. If it is your style, thats cool...but if you are just doing the same thing I did, this may help.

1. When you are taking a picture at night and it has any lights showing, you will need to overexpose the shot, the camera can not meter at night while looking into a light and will almost always underexpose (execptions only due to massive lighting where it' is not really a night shot)

2. Never use your LCD at night to "TELL YOU" if you got the shot, your eyes are completly f'in usless as you are looking into a bright picture with fully dialated eyes. I screwed up so many pictures early in night shots becuause it looked good. I still from time to time really muff it up!

If that shot were lighter, I could see that sky about 2 stops brighter...
Ahhhh....wait, Let me photoshop yours really quick so you can see it pop.....
http://fromtheflightdeck.com/temp/NYCA/205622458-Mb.jpg
Ahhhhh, Some may like, some may hate, but it is all personal preference.

I love the train shots and would be CRAZY in HDR's, The PAA DC-8 shot at the Cradle...soo jealous! Looking forward to seeing what you take next! BTW, what building was that?

Heres a shot from my trip to SFO , taken from the Bayfront Park area.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...0bigma/mmm.jpg
HDR

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...mmer082290.jpg
Original

Wow, I love the detail in the white lights..... WELL DONE! The HDR and non hdr look the same, under detail, the HDR has lots more info... Where the hell is that?

Looks like SFO along the Bay looking towards SFO Intl

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Originally Posted by lijk604

Looks like SFO along the Bay looking towards SFO Intl

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Yep, right next to bike path near the Marriot.

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Originally Posted by Derf

I like the shot but it seems a bit dark. I notice that many of the night shots you have been doing are a bit dark. If it is your style, thats cool...but if you are just doing the same thing I did, this may help.

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Generally, I like my night shots to be more on the dark side. But there are many that I think are very underexposed, leaving interesting details hidden. Thanks for the advice, I still have plenty of experimentation to conduct in the future!

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Originally Posted by Derf

I love the train shots and would be CRAZY in HDR's, The PAA DC-8 shot at the Cradle...soo jealous! Looking forward to seeing what you take next! BTW, what building was that?

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Don't worry, HDRs of the trains are coming. The last few trips have been merely scouting missions, but now that I know what shots I want (and which trains don't contain hobos), I can zero in and eliminate my targets. The DC-8 was in the main museum gallery, right behind the F-9 Couger.

Taken at John Boyd Thatcher State Park last weekend (10/14/07)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...erlook3_10.jpg

Probably one of the best daytime HDR's I've taken so far.

Taken at the Ashokan Reservoir outside Kingston, NY

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...dge_101307.jpg

Yea, I just saw the gallery on your site.... You oversaturated everything and it is OUTSTANDING. I love the feel of the shots! :borat: Great Stuff!

Here is a shot of the Verrazano Bridge, taken from the fishing pier at South Beach.
It didn't realy come out the way I wanted it to.
I focused on the bridge with autofocus but it doesn't seem to be in focus.
Does long exposures effect sharpness/focus?
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z..._26_tonema.jpg

Holy. ****. I love the tree shots.

My camera has an auto-bracketing mode. I'm going to take it to Central Park tomorrow morning if I can drag myself out of bed early enough...

Here is another one.
http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...tonemapped.jpg

Bigma, that 2nd bridge shot is top notch!
Did you not have the first on a tripod, or was it very windy? Either one could have affected the alignment of the photos.

It was windy but it was on a cheap-o tripod.
So maybe the wind was the problem.

Mill Pond - Bayport, NY

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ond_102807.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1033/...f381e1069e.jpg

okay, guess the make/model
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...HDRcockpit.jpg

From the three throttles, gotta be a Falcon, I'll guess it's a Falcon 900 of some flavor.

I took these pics, used the "Merge to HDR..." feature in PS, and I was like, why is this so special? Then I converted to 8-bit color, and I was like, this is fun!

The building to the right of the tree was horrifically overexposed in my original...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2095/...3e61294f_o.jpg

This one was all over the place...there are 8 originals, and I think I bumped my tripod at some point because some of the trees are misaligned.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2051/...d7e1a252_o.jpg

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Originally Posted by moose135

From the three throttles, gotta be a Falcon, I'll guess it's a Falcon 900 of some flavor.

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Oh so close Moose, thanks for playing! 8)

Falcon 50

DING :!: DING :!: DING :!: We have a winner.

Man, this is fun...

The lower Manhattan skyline, viewed from the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/...2dcc4150_o.jpg

(there are 9 more coming, but it's late and I'm too tired to edit)

Anyone know how to do noise reduction on RAW pictures? The JPEGs are nice and crisp, but the RAW images are the noisiest pictures I've ever taken, far beyond the help of Photoshop's noise reduction filter... (Yes, I know that's what I get for not buying a DSLR...)

Ok, none came out as good as that first one I edited, but a few more were worth showing:

A night version of that red tree I got the other day:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2073/...0fca397b_o.jpg

Heights Cafe on Montague St in Brooklyn Heights:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/...08522b1d_o.jpg

The Brooklyn "skyline":
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2044/...ff9380df_o.jpg

Here is why I love HDR (thanks Fred for getting me hooked!)
This is a 6-shot exposure, the only light source, other than the internal light, is the Christmas Tree this is under.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ent_120407.jpg

In keeping with the Holiday theme...the tree in my computer room.
This is a 7ft. non-real tree. HDR 4 images @ 12mm, background intentionally blurred in PP.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ee2-120407.jpg

Continuing on the Christmas tree theme, this is my girlfriend's roommates' tree...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2119/...15257e3f_o.jpg

HDR is so much easier with a good camera...

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Originally Posted by adam613

Continuing on the Christmas tree theme, this is my girlfriend's roommates' tree...

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Your girlfriend's roommate is Charlie Brown :?: :?: :?:

Um, I don't get it?

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Originally Posted by adam613

Um, I don't get it?

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Kids these days...

http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/232103505-L.jpg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059026/

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Originally Posted by moose135

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Originally Posted by adam613

Um, I don't get it?

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Kids these days...

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Well, that, and I'm Jewish... :)

Inspired by Eric, an HDR panorama:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2189/...8de2f36e_b.jpg

45 shots...9 panels, each of which is a 5-shot HDR.

It got cloudy while I was taking the shot...you can tell which panel I did before the clouds rolled in :) I'll try it again when the weather gets better and I'm not so busy...

Great stuff Adam. Do you use autostitch for the panoramic merge?

Yeah, I used Photoshop's Photomerge. It took about 20 minutes :)

Adam, that is some nice work there! Where was that shot taken from?

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Originally Posted by lijk604

Adam, that is some nice work there! Where was that shot taken from?

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Thanks!

I took it from one of the piers near the Exchange Place PATH station...it's a good spot for a pano of lower Manhattan, but I'm looking for a spot further up the river.

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Originally Posted by adam613

...it's a good spot for a pano of lower Manhattan, but I'm looking for a spot further up the river.

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I've heard about shooting from Hoboken for a while, and today I stopped on the way home from PA to check it out.

http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/2...80_n7tsq-L.jpg

http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/2...63_96eDu-L.jpg

I was shooting from Frank Sinatra Drive. It's right on the river, parking wasn't bad, and it's a great view. It's directly across from the mid-teens in Manhattan. They have a fishing pier out into the river that gives you a view from the George Washington Bridge all the way down to the VZ Bridge.

Thanks Moose, that's about the spot I was looking for...and it's not too far from the PATH station...after Passover, I'll try to get out there and work some HDR magic... :)

What's the focal length on the first shot?

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Originally Posted by moose135

They have a fishing pier out into the river that gives you a view from the George Washington Bridge all the way down to the VZ Bridge.

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did you get a shot of that? i'd love to see it...

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Originally Posted by adam613

What's the focal length on the first shot?

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55mm, not heavily cropped.

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Originally Posted by cancidas

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Originally Posted by moose135

They have a fishing pier out into the river that gives you a view from the George Washington Bridge all the way down to the VZ Bridge.

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did you get a shot of that? i'd love to see it...

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http://moose135.smugmug.com/photos/2...0_9Bn65-3X.jpg