12-12-07 – Farktography Classic: HDR 2
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Let’s have some fun with High Dynamic Range photography. Please keep your entries closer the the side of Farktography rather than complete Photoshopping when possible.
I’ve never done HDR before, but after a quick skim through that last tutorial, I see many, many uses for it, and cant wait to give it a shot.
This is what makes me love Farktography. I stop being such a scaredy cat and try out new things. Even if I do end up with coffee beans on pink plates. 😳
Is there any free Windows-based software out there that would allow me to compete in this contest? I would really like to try this, but I can’t afford a copy of Photoshop.
IIRC, Photomatix has a free trial version that puts a small watermark in the corner of the photo, but that it’s easily airbrushed out. Check the HDR board on here; there should be some posts in there about it.
You might try the demo version of Photoshop CS3, IIRC it’s a 30 day, full feature demo.
Here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/
Good call, linguine. That’s what I use under Linux with good results.
The Gimp is also free and there are scripts that can be downloaded to take different images and combine them to make an HDR. It’s what I used for last year’s contest.
I used gimp too last year, but it doesnt include tonemapping so it looks a little different. Heres one I did using gimp:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=532617045&size=m
And heres what the same shots look like using qptfsgui:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1347526622&size=m
OK, that qtpfsgui is pretty nifty:
By schnee at 2007-11-19
Mmmm…nnnyeesss….*strokes beard*….. I do believe I’ll be downloading that tonight!
Wow, you have a ton of ghosting in the clouds there. One advantage to doing it in Gimp is that you can paint out the layer mask in areas like that to make it all one of the layers. That is pretty cool, though, in an more abstract-art kind of way. Probably took about 1 min in qtpfsgui, though.
OK, that qtpfsgui is pretty nifty:
By schnee at 2007-11-19
I was playing with Qtpfsgui, and this popped out. Quite crazy looking. (links to the flickr page because flickr doesn’t like to compress very much) Tone mapping is where Qtpfsgui really shines. That, and I wouldn’t want to put these 18 images together by hand.
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