HDR

[sunshine band]

I've now got Photoshop CS5 and have been playing with the HDR toning- I think I've still got a long way to go...

















Hints and tips are more than welcome!

SB

[Mike]

Fantastic,every one of them.

[starfighter]

HINTS: Dont change anything that you are doing!
TIPS: Please post lots more.
First picture probably the best photograph I think i have seen.
Steve

[paulh]

No.1 and the Head on Sea King - superb .

Cheers Paul.

[skeggy]

Now i'm liking them, 1 & 3 for me, Well done S.B

[Mark Owen]

The first and third and fourth shot for me.

Regards.

Mark.

[beaker1971]

Great shots and although I am not a big fan of HDR, these are simply stunning. Do you need a helper when you go on photoshoots ?
Mark

[brennan74]

Guy you make my pics look like playschool pics!!! great colors!!

[ndfilter]

I love HDR stuff, where it's appropriate, I use the effect quite a lot but I always find the same rule applies. A good photo is good 'un what ever you do to it, and HDR will often make a good one look better but never make a bad one look good.
Something like that.
1 and 3 are just great, the technique often seems to work well when there is either one predominate colour or a very neutral tone, like the Sea King shot. I often desaturate the image a lot (I use Photomatix for HDR processing) but tease the colour back in with Photoshop's sponge tool set to saturate. Gives a lovely 50s pastel effect (on a good day).

[Chef_uk]

The background on the second pic could have been darker in my opinion but that might not have been feasible in PS without losing some quality. First and third are amazing though

[Richard B]

Work well from here.
i do like the use of HDR.

Gives a good depth and dimension + detail to an image.

[triplexxxf2]

Ohhhh I do love the seaking looks quite nice
Terry

[jdupons]

HDR works best when you have 3 or more different shots of the same scene, with different apertures..and then combined into one proper HDR picture. Only these pictures can be called proper HDR ; and it's almost impossible to get this with flying aircraft . So I'd rather call in-flight "HDR" shots, pseudo-HDR.

[glencoe]

Like the last two Tornados !

[ndfilter]

HDR works best when you have 3 or more different shots of the same scene, with different apertures..and then combined into one proper HDR picture.

Well, yes and no. I have often gone to extremes of the image capture by producing 3 TIFFs, one at 2 stops under, one on the stop and one at 2 stops over and then recombined them as if they were 3 exposures. I can't really give you 'good' examples here as they are not actually of aircraft. It's a bit of a cheat but you are then using parts of the image capture that were almost off the scale so it's similar.
I knocked this up today as an example of that method. As I say, not the best but at least it's an aeroplane!
(ZZ176 at Brize, 13 July '09)