He's a fantastic photographer. Here's a link to his portfolio... We talked a little about a process he's begun to use called HDR lighting (that stands for High Dynamic Range). He sent me a link to a tutorial on how to produce HDR images, and so I decided to try it out with one of the photographs I took while at the park. I've seen these tutorials before and never really had the time to sit down and experiment. So today I decided to do just that.
So basically, you take a photograph (use a tripod if possible, and shoot still objects). You'll need to take several photos at different levels of brightness, and though I'm still learning photography terms, I think this refers to changing your aperture value.
So you can also do it if you don't have multiple images, by using just one. The results aren't as good as if you'd used several shots, but hey sometimes you need to experiment right?
Here is the original shot I used:
I then made a darker, and lighter version of the image:
Then created an HDR based image in Photoshop and tweaked from there.Here's the finished piece:
Not bad for using a single photograph.. It'd probably turn out much better if the image I used was RAW format instead of the JPG that I had available, but an interesting experiment nonetheless.
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Hello
Hi, I've been trying out HDR too, it certainly gives some interesting results. I stumbled across this free program http://www.imagingluminary.com/Default.aspx which is fairly simple to use and get used to. I've found that duplicating a few images in something like Photoshop and changing the levels from under to over exposed works quite well.
Hope this helps.
Also, have a look at my blog, which has a few of my early attempts at Tilt Shift effects.
Hey thanks Jonah, that looks like a sweet piece of software.
I've ran into that Fake Model Photography tutorial before, it looks like you've got a really good handle on how its done.
Cheers m8!
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