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E-510, 14-42, ISO 400, 1/15th, f3.5, 14mm. Developed from ORF to 5 different exposures and mashed together using a recipe I found on the four thirds group. The original was taken in a drizzle and is flat as a dead toad, BTW, and I had to de-saturate this. I realize this violates the "golden rule" but the spiral formed by the branches was what caught my eye.



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amazing image - surreal even................
 
Thank you - I think. :-)

Jim
 
In terms of making this an HDR image, what were you trying to accomplish? It doesn't look real, but I'm guessing you weren't trying to make it look real. It reminds me of an online computer game after it has loaded but failed to render some of the graphics properly (purple regions). It's a very interesting image nonetheless.
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Actually, I just was experimenting with no set outcome in mind. I have no idea why the rocks in the background (which were black and wet) got "funny", for example. The original shot was, as I said, really, really flat. I was quite surprised at what popped up.

I guess if I'm going to be doing this I need to sneak in a gray card somewhere so I can fix the weird colors, because while I know the color is - odd - my color vision isn't up to fixing it without a cheat.

Purple, huh? Oooog, how embarrassing.

Jim
 
Nice. I guess you could say I added life to mine, too. Alien life, but hey, it's life.

Jim
 
Forget the rule....the over saturated colors make this picture very interesting to me. Not much else to look at otherwise.

You did a good job keeping that image sharp using multi exposures. Very nice. I could see it on someones wall.
 
Thanks.

The really odd thing is that I can't for the life of me get all that color cast to go away. Nor do I have a clue as to where it came from. In the original shot, the rocks are close to 18% grey (when dry). I'd suspect some sort of prism effect from the rain, but that wouldn't explain the other stuff being off, like the tree trunk. If I use the middle dropper in CS3 levels on them, the whole picture turns lemon yellow. The rocks turn a nice grey. Not real helpful.

I gave it full -blue and it's still too blue. And too red, but I gave up on it when the blue refused to subside. And, yes, I de-saturated it a bunch and still couldn't get it right, plus it looked like c* p. Oh well. Try again with a grey card in the cropped out area and correct as required during the process, I guess.

It makes a cool looking print, too. Looks like there were two different suns up in the sky. A blue giant and a red dwarf, maybe. A new photo genre. Alien planet landscapes.
 
Manually in CS3, following the recipe posted on the four thirds forum.
 
What software did you use or did you just use layers and blending in CS? These images look very real and are more "acceptable" from a reality standpoint. Not too much HDR, but they also make the images come to life - exactly what HDR is ideally suited for.

IMO you've succeeded with these images.
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Tim
'Be the change you wish to see in the world.' -Mahatma Gandhi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timskis6/
 
John Paul said:
James (and/or Joseph),
Could you post the link to the description of the technique you are
using? You are getting some interesting results.
Thanks,
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I set camera to manual focus, manual exposure, mirror-lockup, bracket 2 stops + -, tripod mounted, raw. Merged 3 shots and processed with Photomatix to create JPEG. JPEG brought into image processing software (any will do) to tweak saturation and sharpness.

Hope this helps.
 
Timskis6 said:
What software did you use or did you just use layers and blending in
CS? These images look very real and are more "acceptable" from a
reality standpoint. Not too much HDR, but they also make the images
come to life - exactly what HDR is ideally suited for.

IMO you've succeeded with these images.
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Tim
'Be the change you wish to see in the world.' -Mahatma Gandhi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timskis6/
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Thanks. You have to resist the temptation of over-processing.
 
James Sherman said:
Thanks.

The really odd thing is that I can't for the life of me get all that
color cast to go away. Nor do I have a clue as to where it came
from. In the original shot, the rocks are close to 18% grey (when
dry). I'd suspect some sort of prism effect from the rain, but that
wouldn't explain the other stuff being off, like the tree trunk. If
I use the middle dropper in CS3 levels on them, the whole picture
turns lemon yellow. The rocks turn a nice grey. Not real helpful.
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Did you shoot raw or JPEG?
 
RAW. I developed it 2 over, 1 over, normal and then 1 and 2 under. I had other shots of the tree, but with the rain and trying it with and ithout flash, none of them matched up well enough. So I decided to "clone" one image that way.
 
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