Lensbaby

Hi everyone,

Just thought I'd share this HDR pano I took with the composer on Sunday.

I've used HDR for 2 years, mainly for architecture. More recently I've used PT Gui for pano work - and luckily that software can generate HDR files for you. A godsend to architecture photographer.

So this one's from a place called Clarence Dock in Leeds, UK. it's taken from above the lock gates, if you know the area.

It's 12 shots in total - 4 sets of 3 bracketed shots. The bracketing is -2, 0 +2 to get a decent coverage, and you can use Auto Exposure Bracketing to capture those pretty quickly.

you then shove the 12 images into PT GUI, tell it that it's a HDR and there's 4 lots of 3, align the image and hit the Generate button.

What came out wasn't hugely different to the finished result. All I had to do in Photoshop was make the vertical properly vertical, a bit of dust bunny removal, reduce the blues a lot as the image was very very cool and sharpen the sweet area a bit to increase the contrast of the windows in the tower.

Give it a go

Ade

Very nicely done Ade. It looks great.
David

David Akoubian
www.bearwoodsphotography.com

"Time is a wonderful healer, but a really bad beautician" - Unknown

Very practical Bending......smaRt !

Ade,


Great HRD capture -- also a nicely composed image.


Rich

Very nicely done, the HDR is kept subtle and the pano is well composed.

Matthew

great job, thanks for sharing your technique.

Igor

cheers folks

got my creative kit the other day so may retry some panos with different shaped apertures now :-)

May I be so bold as to ask what HDR means?

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skindiver
May I be so bold as to ask what HDR means?

High Dynamic Range. The sensor on a DSL can't always record the scene as you see it - if you expose for the highlights you lose detail in the shadows and vice-versa.

HDR needs a series of images taken at different exposures, you then blend these together (normally with specific software) to create one image.

I use Photomatix from HDRSoft, their website is quite informative. [www.hdrsoft.com]

Matthew