New Photos - Not fish for a change

[Aquamojo]

All of these photos were shot in Camera RAW and stylized in Photo Shop, Corel Paint and/or Photomatix Proto give a surrealistic effect.

Took this photo at a local theater called the Kirby Center. The picture was originally rendered as an HDR photo....here a compilation of four images Normally this requires a tripod to steady. I hand held the camera. I like the small blur on some of the detail.

Photo of my daughters pooch. I liked the different textures in the photo as well as the similarity in tones.

Taken on a Cape May beach in the morning.

Also Cape May.

 

[RyanP]

awesome pics, i love HDR photography. Props on that theater shot by hand held. Thats hard to do.

 

[buddha1200]

great photos

 

[Arturo]

Very nice shots.

 

[gangster]

You have quite a bit of skill using that camera. Nice shots.....beach shot really stands out.

 

[Aquamojo]

You have quite a bit of skill using that camera. Nice shots.....beach shot really stands out.

Thanks folks. I like the beach shot as well. Funny, but my biggest critics have always been my Sister and my daughter. Both panned the beach photo for the flowered fence.


I'm constantly reading and experimenting. I do believe that in order to take it to the next level you have to be up on utilizing Photoshop to it's full potential. I recently read an interesting book regarding editing within Channels...the R-G-B section of each layer. Really interesting stuff.

Just started to branch of into more of the HDR photos. Really digging that. I utilize a slight twist in that I copy the original photo then blend the original with the HDR...burning in, dodging and even erasing some portions of the layer. It adds a little "realism" to the photos ethereal look. Just picked up Corel Paint X. Interesting effects.

I've been trying some REALLY "out there" stuff. Here's a few. The first is another HDR photo that I hand held. In the program Photomatix it basically combines the various images (in this case three) and aligns them up accordingly (either by edge or by matching the images (flower) to the best of it's ability. This picture was off by a mile, but I kind of liked the weird half frame that remained on the photo. I don't know. I kind of liked it. I've seen worse for sale as "art" I guess it truly is in the eye of the beholder.

Interested in your opinion.

Here's another shot I took of my daughters Christmas Tree...also HDR (five images...shutter speed varying from 1/2 second to a full fifteen second exposure). She wanted a nice photo for this years Christmas Card. Look at how you can see the detail in both shadow and highlight. I took the photo with the Nikkor fish-eye lens.

Then I manipulated them a bit. The effect really brings out the texture on the walls as well as the tree.

Another HDR image of her front door was option #2. A little over the top...but I liked it as well. This was one of those images that I blended the original with the altered version.

 

[neoprodigy]

wow... awesome work.... what is your camera setup?

 

[RyanP]

have always been into HDR and have photomatrix and Dynamic-Photo HDR. You should check out flikr.com and simply search HDR and check out some of the amazing shots they have on there.

 

[Aquamojo]

wow... awesome work.... what is your camera setup?

Li...simple stuff. It works best with an image (usually static....but there's a way around that with RAW) that is high contrast...lots of lights and dark shadows. You set the camera on a tripod and pick the aperture. Then set the shutter speed to expose for the photo...then shoot two or three to properly light the shadow and highlights respectively. Looking at it this way...each photo will have a segment that will be properly lit for specific portions of the photo. In Photoshop you use File>Automate>Merge to HDR...then pick all of the images in that series. The program will then merge all of the images together using the Histogram to maintain all of the areas that were properly exposed and merge them into one photo. The panel that pops up lets you manipulate the image a little before importing into PS. The file is usually huge and is imported into PS at 16 or 32 bits.

The end result is a photo that is properly exposed in both the highlights, midtones and shadows.

Try it. Very cool stuff. Here's another example shot of a Victorian home in Cape May. I didn't even see the Flag roof until I processed the picture. Literally no detail to the naked eye.

have always been into HDR and have photomatrix and Dynamic-Photo HDR. You should check out flikr.com and simply search HDR and check out some of the amazing shots they have on there.

Awesome photo. Check out this website: http://hdrcreme.com/photo-gallery

I'm really enjoying this style...and still learning.

 

[benzjamin13]

Nice