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| Posted: Thu Mar 7th, 2019 14:12 |
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Eric
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Anyone doing HDR and have photos they want to share? These were taken in the Honfleur Basin .... processed in Snapseed  And another....  Another angle.... 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 7th, 2019 18:47 |
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jk
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I have been doing some landscape shooting here in Cornwall with my Z7. Up until this year the support for merging RAW images seemed to be very poor and you had to either do it by hand in Photoshop or other image editors. However it seems that the latest version of LR and PS now support this but since I wont be paying Adobe any money I wont be using their software. To solve this Skylum (previously MacPhun) produce Aurora 2019 but also they have Luminar3, and I have licenses for both, likewise for ON1 RAWphoto2019. Once again I have to say that Adobe's attitude to smaller non-corporate users had resulted in them losing revenue as I will NEVER pay subscription for software. I can name 30 other people who feel the same and so I would say I am not alone with this feeling of resentment towards Adobe. I have been experimenting with HDR and find the results interesting in that the traditional 5/7/9image set seem to me a little OTT as I can get a similar result in Photoshop CS6 using a single RAW file but developed to yield a +1.5/0/-1.5 single image that I can blend via Photoshop layers and some actions. I am on my ipad at present so dont have images available to post.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 08:33 |
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Robert
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Perhaps better don my hardhat here...  I resisted using HDR for a long while because of the effect you present above. However I did see some examples which appears more 'normal' so I dabbled in Ps but didn't persevere, too much messing about... Then Lightroom provided the facility, at your prompting with difficult lighting I used bracketing (If in doubt, bracket.), for sunrises and heavy shadow/bright sunlight, high contrast situations and started using Lightroom's HDR to combine the NEFs. This is something I now do routinely in these difficult situations, the Flint Castle image being a recent example, bright sky and heavy shadow on the castle walls due to the light source being beyond the castle. Of course there are situations where bracketing is difficult or impossible. I have been copying some of my fathers Kodachrome slides, which as you will appreciate often lack shadow detail. I ran sets of 5 bracketed exposures with varying EV's then selected the best and ran the NEFs with best exposures for shadow, mid range and brights through Lr's HDR process. A little trick which allows batch processing of many sets, control+H keys add the set to a queue for HDR processing, I have fed Lr with as many as ten sets of images at one time, left the computer for a while and come back to find they are all done to perfection! Except for the ability to extract otherwise invisible shadow and highlight detail they look entirely normal. So Yes, I do use HDR but only as a tool to extract the maximum exposure range from a given subject, not the create an HDR 'effect', which I tend to dislike.  Another image with massive EV range, extreme shadows and direct sun...  I bracket wherever I feel the EV range is being pushed, as an insurance if you like, in processing I may not use all or any of the bracketed NEFs, I am becoming more relaxed since the D800 because I feel so much more can be recovered or revealed with the D800 files. If you look at the histograms of these types of HDR images usually the Adobe software seems to adjust the mid tones and spread them very evenly and eliminate any highlight or shadow clipping. Unlike JK, I rejoice at the Adobe policy of paying monthly for my photo software, because otherwise I would not have access to such outstanding software at such a low price (less than the price a packet of cigarets a month? I don't and never have smoked...) but that's a discussion we have had many times before.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 08:54 |
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chrisbet
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I know Honfleur extremely well ( I have a watercolour of the old harbour hanging in my study) and I must say I have never seen it look like that in real life! Would make jolly good jigsaw puzzles though. I am with Robert on this one - HDR is a step too far for my taste. I like the dimness and lack of detail in the shadows, it adds to the focus and mood of an image like a sunset 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 09:07 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Perhaps better don my hardhat here... So the extra drama of the sky and more detail in the subject, wouldn't be to your taste ?..... 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 09:14 |
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Eric
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Or maybe a blend of the two?  Can't tempt you?  
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 09:20 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:I know Honfleur extremely well ( I have a watercolour of the old harbour hanging in my study) and I must say I have never seen it look like that in real life! Well yes I agree if you are going for the ethereal look, the last thing you want is enhanced contrast. HDR doesn't work for every subject or situation. That's why I prefer not to do it in camera but consider if the final image can be improved? from hyping the detail later. Sunsets invariably have their own quality that would be spoiled by reducing the silhouette effect.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 10:58 |
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jk
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Some of my HDR images Attachment: Z7-1-1222a-019.jpg (Downloaded 60 times)
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 11:02 |
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jk
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Seem to be having trouble loading more than 2 images so a second post. 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 8th, 2019 11:03 |
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jk
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And some more. 
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