HDR Photography

[Forsh]

I did my best to put together a quick tutorial for those looking to add an element of HDR into their landscape photography:

http://www.squidoo.com/hdr-photography

From the tips:

--> Look for scenes with high contrast. In my experience this will give you the most impact in your images. (Reflections, dark objects, metal, shiny objects, bright lights, heavy shadows, bright sunlight, etc)

--> When assessing the area you will be photographing, try to get clouds in the skies.

--> Remember how you always tried to not back light your subject without a main softbox/reflector/mainlight with conventional photography? With HDR, break all the rules that limited you and never feel constrained. You are only limited by your imagination, so start dreaming of new ways you can use HDR that have never been seen.

V/r,
Forsh

[Cricket]

What an awesome tutorial! Thanks!

[3ncryptabl3_lick]

Thanks for that Forsh!

I'll try that out soon

[Forsh]

No problem, hope it helps!

[photocrats.com]

WOW ! Thanks for the link. By the way, who is "John" @ http://www.johninjapan.com? Is he v7n's Daddy? Let me say WOW! again. V7n's daddy got lot of qualities!

[Forsh]

LOL, well John Scott is in Japan, but I am John and I am in Japan also!

[photocrats.com]

Lot of John @ v7n.com

[ToddW]

How-To for photoshop would be cool too I know the newer versions can do HDR stuff.

[ToddW]

Looks like you use PS and Photomatix can you do muhc w/out photmatix ?

[Forsh]

Originally Posted by ToddW

Looks like you use PS and Photomatix can you do muhc w/out photmatix ?

Yes, Photoshop is quite easy to use for it. I am anxious to see what PS-SC3 can do. I'll see if I can work up a tutorial for PS-CS2.