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Just playing around trying to get a hang of making HDR pics. I will have more later today and maybe more over time..
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bluemkiii;959978 said:Very nice pics, I might sound like a noob but what does hdr stand for?
AF1JZ;959983 said:I'm glad you asked because I was going to ask the same thing. Sad part is I have a SLR Nikon D40. But, I haven't really played with it yet. Been to cold and ugly out.
EDIT: I looked this up....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
speed;960191 said:You HAVE to use a 3rd party program to do it. You need at least 3 different images taken at different exposures.
1) You CAN do this from a single RAW photo. They're 48bit, and capture much more information than your generic 8bit JPEG. However, its still not a "true" HDR image.
2) Take 3 different JPG photos at different exposures. Best is to set the camera on a tripod, and adjust exposure from -2, 0, 2. On some dSLRs, there will be a "bracketing" option and it'll automatically take a set # of photos over a set exposure range. AF1J, i don't think the D40 has this.. you can check though. Otherwise, just make sure the composure is as close to identical as you can get it, and manually adjust exposure.
For the truest HDR image, take the photo with 3 RAWs at different exposures, then go through and adjust each raw individually, merge them in Photomatix, and then perform final adjustments on the output image.
You CAN make HDR shots in Photoshop (CS2 and newer), but photomatix gives you "truer" HDR shots.
Not to hijack, but here are some of my HDR pics:
http://tim.thedugans.net/gallery/d/4667-6/DSC_0370_HDR.jpg
http://tim.thedugans.net/gallery/d/8966-1/DSC_0206_HDR.jpg
Those were each from a single RAW file that I split into individual .tiff files at different exposures, then combined in photomatix. Photomatix does have the option to make HDR just by loading a single RAW file.. but it doesn't seem to have much of the "HDR effect"
If anybody wants i can put together a tutorial on how to create HDRs from both point and shoots and SLRs.