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ok had another go at this, and i think the result came out much better:

original with supposedly perfect exposure:


and now the tonemapped one, pretty freaky sky, but cool none the less!


thoughts?

the buuildings look awesome, i reckon on photoshop put the original sky into the hdr shot and youll have a really cool picture! Also i managed to find a serial for photomatix floating around the web to get rid of the watermark, have a hunt.

tho that serial doesnt work on macs god damn me being different!

Dan...is that just a -2 0 and +2 EV shot you have there HDRd?

yeah, it mixed 3 photos, proper exposure, -2 and then +2 photos and after a bit of fiddling, this is how it came out!

Super duper. My camera broke on holiday which sucks so I have to wait for nearly 6 weeks for it to come back from repair - its a joke!!!!

oops

Looks really nice Dan!

I'd agree with Joe though, if possible blend the original sky in a little more

JoeG07 wrote:whats autobracketing and how do i do it?

Depends on your camera but it will usually been in the set up menu.

You Can do HDR shots simply by using one image ... Just open the image you'd like to change using photoshop ... change the exposures and then open in photomatix - Easy Peasy

garethmk1 wrote:You Can do HDR shots simply by using one image ... Just open the image you'd like to change using photoshop ... change the exposures and then open in photomatix - Easy Peasy

nah its not the same because taking different photos at different exposures captures different information, wheras changing the exposure of one image dosnt. However, im pretty sure you can do it from one picture if its taken in RAW format, which would allow you to produce hdrs of photos like passing planes or animals where you cant take 3 shots, although im not certain about this

Nope you can't do it with one shot. The data and information just isn't there,. takes these pictures for example...

If this was your original image:

you couldn't simply crank the exposure on the garage sections to produce this:


You need seperate images.

But sure, taking an image and editing it using 3 different exposures in PS will make it look better. It's simply colour/level and contrast correction. nothing like HDR.

yeah but if you shoot it RAW then your only applying contrast the camera would have done anyway, allowing you to poduce 3 differently exposed images

JoeG07 wrote:yeah but if you shoot it RAW then your only applying contrast the camera would have done anyway, allowing you to poduce 3 differently exposed images

Care to expand? i'm not too clued up on RAW images

ive never played with it, but if i understand right, its basically like a negative for digital cameras, certain dslrs let you do it, you take the photo, but instead of saving it in jpeg or whatever format on your camera, it saves the information it captures, and you apply like the contrast, levels etc afterwards using software. which would allow you to produce different contrasted pictures from one file.

you can make HDR's from 1 RAW, it saves everything, unlike jpeg which saves what i needs. prof photographers use RAW as there is sooo much info stored in the image that it can be changed to look perfect. hence why it takes up loads of memory on your card lol