It seems alittle dark but I really really like it!

 

What kind of camera did you take that with? I think the shutter speed is kinda low cuz the water just looks like fuzz. It is a good shot tho, props

 

that's the effect he was going for.

really nice pic kodatech. i first typed kodak as your name.

 

Ahh that's a nice picture. I keep telling myself to get a nd4 and take a trip to shoot waterfalls but I keep putting it off.

 

That picture was taken with a Nikon D40....its what I take them all with. ;O)

Yeah I went with a slow shutter speed to get the milky effect of the water.

Oh yeah...and It wasn't a graduated ND filter. I have a ND filter, but it was pretty dark, and I didn't need one. But it is an overly tone-mapped HDR....As are these, taken the same day.

 

Here is a new pic my g/f took of me riding. It is a bit over exposed but I think it looks pretty sweet!

 

those are pretty sick dude!!! I really need to learn how to do HDR images!!!

 

Thanks. Its easy. There are lots of tutorials on the web. I just need a tripod and either a camera that can bracket images, whether automatically or manually.

 

Agreed! I need someone to show me in person. I've tried to do HDR pictures MILLIONS of times, and out of that million tries, i've only had ONE successful picture haha. I just don't know why it doesn't work. I'm doing something wrong =(

 

Why don't you post the picture, and what you did. Then we could help you figure out what went wrong. It could be you didn't get enough exposures....or you got too many...or the camera moved....lots of things. Post them up and lets have a look.

 

Anyway, here are some of my pics. Nothing great at all. I like the animation/cartoony look pictures

 

Can you give some details on the shots? How many exposures? Tripod? camera type? RAW or JPEG?


To me, it looks like the result of 2 things. Not enough exposures, and too aggressive on the tone mapping. It looks like some may have been tone mapped from a single exposure.

 

Oh those aren't hdr pics haha. I shoot all my pics in jpeg. I'm gonna have to find my hdr pic. It may be on another computer

Those last couple of pics have too much contrast though I will admit that

 

They look like tone-mapped images. See the halos and the color banding in the sky? Thats what I mean about the tone-mapped look.

 

A little overboard on the shadow/highlight adjustments...

 

Arizona sunset

 

that fog picture is savage koda!! Great job!!

 

omni add a smidge of contrast to the first one and its perfect!

 

lol it's funny you say that I kept fussing with the image and had already added 50% more than it had so I left it there.

 

Nice Oni...I like that first one.

Thanks for the compliment spectral.

 

Do you have the hi res of this still?

 

Yep I keep all the high-res stuff saved in .tiff on my pc and backed up on DVD.

 

Koda what program do you use to do your HDR merge?

 

I take my bracketed images. I merge them in Photoshop CS3. Once I get my 32 bit file, I tone map them in photomatix. Then save it as a .tiff (16bit). RE-OPEN it in Photoshop if I need to do any adjustments such as cropping, sharpening, or noise removal.

Ok one more I guess. This one is a bit different and may not be for everyone's taste.

 

Can I get a copy of it from ya. I would like to use it as a windows background.

hawkeye0386 @ gmail.com

I like that one thats nice!