yeah well u just gotta tweak a lot the settings, i sometimes think its ok and when i save its all noisy and bleah...

btw the link with the RAW files is not working :(

Very nice result! HDR is awesome!

hey the link works just fine for me (using firefox on mac)

I've fixed the link error, thanks a lot Olariu Alex.... Hope you like the pics...

Thanks for the comments ;)

Thanks for this post. HDR gives great results for a whole bunch of possible effects, and so far I had never done it using a single RAW photo, and the result is convincing!

Congrats for the winners ! Nice results for the HDR, really, it looks like some 3D game I love it !

Will give it a try with those RAW pics ;)

thanks !!

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Great tutorial. I had tried to dive into HDR before but got discouraged but this resparked my interested and was able to come up with something im fairly happy with which can be seen here if anyone is interested; http://vanitydesignstudios.com/?p=61

Here's mine!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/guav/2724833119/sizes/l/

First of all, you show a great deal of class asking anyone else to download the files and please try to do better. Not only that, being humble and asking for help when it comes to something you don't understand. It is the sign, in my opnion, of a true artist and basically a good person.
Good for you.
Oh, your art here is awesome.
Please for the sake of this art, photography, keep it up.
Tom

Really great tutorial. I've wanted to test HDR for a really long time, but i didn't know were to start. I just wonder why the pic gets very different when you click on proceed. I wanna know how the pic are going to be when I am editing it:)

You are just making a pseudo HDR form a raw file. Photomatix can do that without the exposure tweaking in photoshop. The real thing in HDR is to get the details in the dark shadows and also in the strong light areas. For a real HDR try to make at least 3 pictures. If You have good light conditions and a strong hand You won't either need a tripod.

Good job on the tutorial firstly. I think anyone who's willing to take the time to teach others new skills deserves plenty of praise.

With regards to the "tone mapping", this is the process needed to crunch all the information in a HDR file down to make it viewable on screen. When you combine multiple images into a HDR file it creates a 32bit file. Todays monitors just arn't capable of displaying this kind of dynamic range, even though programs like photomatix and photoshop can open them and work with them, but this is just the program's interpretation of what you want to see from the file.

When you tone map, you're basically telling the 32bit file what bits of that enormous dynamic range you want to display on your monitor. This is where the magic happens because you can choose to keep the highlights AND the shadows from that range. And thats how you're able to save out a regular 8bit jpg image for web/print.

Worth noting as Janos pointed out, this method with a single raw file isn't what most people would call "true hdr" processing... But thats up to the individuals interpretation. The method works because Raw files capture more dynamic range than jpg's. Not as much range as multiple camera captures though... but if you're happy with the results you get from 1 image, why take 3? :)

my try ....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/12859152@N07/2762874886/

cu

wow.... ok this has been some time.... but i must say i have been so busy with school and exams for past few weeks I totally forgot about this and today I open my mail and I find that I have been selected for this.... wow...

thanx a lot fabio.... :D

Thank You very nice topic

That's a cool resource site that i am really glad that there are ppl helping each other on the web............i used one of ur cool RAW photos and i like to have ur comment on it :

http://3moor1987.deviantart.com/art/chicago-101193749

That's a cool resource site that i am really glad that there are ppl helping each other on the web............i used one of ur cool RAW photos and i like to have ur comment on it :

http://3moor1987.deviantart.com/art/chicago-101193749

hi folks, I'm using Canon PS G9 too, and i have already taken 300 hdrs (+2,-2,+1,-1,of course 0 exposure levels)
my page is weraqs.deviantart.com/gallery there is a fake hdr on my gallery, hope you like it. http://weraqs.deviantart.com/art/fake-hdr-74748902

Hello!

it's been a while since i got my own digital camera, and because of the lack of knowledge, i was not able to use the full potential of my digital camera. The setting was always in automatic, and i always get the same quality of photos...luckily i stumbled upon this website and i was interested in creating HDRs, which makes any picture looking great, your tutorials are truly helpful and i am now starting in my own in creating HDRs, hope i can learn more from you and this website about HDRs... thank you and have a nice day

love the site and tutorials. keep up the great work m8

Nice work ,great collection. Thanks for the share.

Hello, can you please post some more information on this topic? I would like to read more.

Great tutorial! I searched one with sources, which is th best way to learn, I think.

Thanks a lot.

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