Warbirds in HDR

[Dave Cheeseman]

Been playing around with HDR photography. Lots of fun with images with clouds in the background.


For Gary












For Randy


Just cant make a post without a Spit in it


The rest are located here: http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg27 ... R/?start=0

Cheers Dave C

[m charters]

Very nice Dave! What do you use to do the effect?

[Dave Cheeseman]

Mike I used a program called Photomatrix Pro. It seems to be the one most talked about. Here is a link that has the info on the procedure: http://abduzeedo.com//how-create-hdr-ph ... x-tutorial

If you would like a copy of the program just send me a e-mail and I can send it to you cheezzmk9@sympatico.ca it pretty small.

Cheers Dave C

[Randy Haskin]

Beautiful shots! The Lanc picture looks like a painting!

I was under the impression that you needed to take several differently-exposed shots in order to create an HDR photo. How do you do that with in-flight/in-action shots? Is that just a single photo run through the software, or are you taking *very* quick multiple shots?

[Holedigger]

Nice! Hun Hunter looks very cool, like that 109 as well.

[retroaviation]

Thanks for posting the Ol' 927 picture. I guess the tunnel gun just isn't cool enough for the CAF to have it in position during airshow fly bys.

Oh, and that head on shot of the F-15 is pretty cool too. Nicely done.

Gary

[Tim Adams]

Beautiful shots! The Lanc picture looks like a painting!

I was under the impression that you needed to take several differently-exposed shots in order to create an HDR photo. How do you do that with in-flight/in-action shots? Is that just a single photo run through the software, or are you taking *very* quick multiple shots?

You can take multiple shots at different exposures, which is really the best way to do it and blend it, or you can take a single RAW file and convert it at different exposure levels.

These all look pretty good, I'm not a fan of the over done HDR stuff we see all the time on the net. The best done HDR's, especially in nature photography, are the ones where you have to be told that it is indeed an HDR, you can't even tell, they are so good.

[Holedigger]

Indeed, shooting in RAW gives you a lot more options in "tweaking" photos. Switched to RAW a few years back. It does eat more memory, but really is a better file to work from if having to correct colors, pull detail from dark areas and such. Memory $$$$s for the cameras had been the biggest drawback but now it is much cheaper. Much better to shoot in RAW than JPG as you do keep more data and detail, only drawback is that the files are much bigger and your photo archive can get rather HUGE!!!

[Dave Cheeseman]

Thanks all, Yes these were taken from single RAW images. I started shooting RAW in 2007 and have never looked back, a little more work in the processing but you can save images that were too dark or light. I agree with Tim the effect is really cool on landscape and nature photo's when you just add a little to pull put detail in clouds and surroundings. I did these in various levels, some look almost normal and others I think look like cartoons or paintings.

Cheers Dave C