FZ50 - HDR shots x 3 - Marysville and Lake Mountain - VIC, Australia

I'm rather liking the auto bracket function on the camera!, am finding with HDR that less is more when combining images!

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previously an FZ3, then was my first camera, Olympus C920UZ

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Beautiful water shots. Really like the contrasting sharpness of the rocks with the soft water.

The Tee Tree or Manuka as we call it is OK. But I would have pushed the HDR effects a bit more myself. Depends what your after.

Checked out your other photos - very impressive. Really liked your motion shots, the tram, the people on the pier. The St Kilda night beach shot is beautiful.

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Cheers Brett

VERY NICE! I'm fond of these "silky" water shots tho I've taken very few. Can you provide more details on your camera and enhancement work? Thanks!
Mark
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These are some of the most natural HDR photos I have seen. Usually, the introduction of tone-mapping is so obvious that I had begun to wonder if it was possible to get a natural-looking result.

Very nice.

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Darrell

Your images are a nice confirmation of sanity for me (at least when it comes to HDR -- haha), as I've been dabbling in HDR for a little while now, but not pushing it too much because I don't care for unnatural looking HDR. It's good to see someone else doing more natural HDR as well. I can definitely see a difference from what I would normally expect of the FZ50 from a single shot (especially the third one).

Very nice! I'll have to follow your future threads, looking for more HDR examples.

What app are you using to combine the images? I currently use Photomatrix, and not that I'm not happy with it, but I'm always looking to make sure that I'm not missing out on anything else that may have been released since making that decision.

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Chris
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You're right, less IS more when it comes to HDR and your photos prove it. They look natural with nice contrast. Most HDR's I have seen look unnatural and downright wierd.

Jack

great picture, can you tell me how you did this and what software I might need?
thanks
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http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i35/tony_debby/

hiya all

FZ50 was used with a tripod here

HDR software was photomatrix pro V2.5

Being honest, I've found that 9/10 times that 'generate HDR' then clicking Tonemapping on all the standard settings gives excellent results, then simply tweak the settings from there, usually gamma is a bit low/dark, and saturation is little too high!

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FZ50!!!!!!!!!!!
previously an FZ3, then was my first camera, Olympus C920UZ

all my piccies................. http://flickr.com/photos/66344245@N00/

Very nice job bleugh. That first shot is really gorgeous. That's one HUGE waterfall!
Carol

That's been my experience, too -- I mostly just keep the defaults. If you modify anything too much, that's when things start looking unnatural (at least in my opinion).

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Chris
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