Help me achieve this!

Jim05

Hi just wondering if any of ye can direct me to an online tutorial on how to achieve photos like these
Thanks

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisisinvenice/6020810984/

and


http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisisinvenice/6020257931/in/photostream/

and

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisisinvenice/6020257879/in/photostream/

came across his photostream on flickr and I'd like to know how to achieve similar

magicbastarder

it's badly done HDR and heavy handed processing - are you deliberately trying to achieve that overcooked look?

pixbyjohn

Have a look here, there are lots more tutorials on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRPBX3IbXq4
Hope this is of some help

Balfey1972

Jim,

Search on YouTube for tutorials on Photomatix. That is the program that will give you those effects.

Also check out number of HDR groups on Flickr

Derek.

kelly1

You really don't want to go down that road!

mmalaka

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

DaireQuinlan

mmalaka wrote: »

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

Ah stuckincustoms. One of the most hideously overrated photography sites out there. That somehow managed to give HDR a veneer of respectability over its crass garish tastelessness. That's responsible for sucking more people into their personal HDR holes than anything else.






Some of them never make it back out.

magicbastarder

it's like the sarlacc pit.

BlastedGlute

hahaha hdr

pixbyjohn

Jim05 wrote: »

Hi just wondering if any of ye can direct me to an online tutorial on how to achieve photos like these
Thanks

came across his photostream on flickr and I'd like to know how to achieve similar

If you guys can't direct the OP to a tutorial then don't post in the thread.
He didn't ask for comments on the for/against of HDR.

DaireQuinlan

pixbyjohn wrote: »

If you guys can't direct the OP to a tutorial then don't post in the thread.
He didn't ask for comments on the for/against of HDR.

overblown HDR/tonemapping is an ugly and quite justifiably despised processing style that people seem to stumble upon, think is the bees knees, and only afterward realise the error of their ways and look back on that period in their lives with horror and dismay.

We're just trying to short-circuit the process.

It's like telling a child not to run out onto the road, as opposed to letting him run out and get hit by a car so he or she knows what it feels like.

If you disagree with me then you're obviously condoning pushing children into traffic.

pixbyjohn

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

It's like telling a child not to run out onto the road, as opposed to letting him run out and get hit by a car so he or she knows what it feels like.

If you disagree with me then you're obviously condoning pushing children into traffic.

I am shocked at the logic of your retort.
I have nothing more to add.

Kintarō Hattori

pixbyjohn wrote: »

I am shocked at the logic of your retort.
I have nothing more to add.

I thought it was actually a rather brilliant analogy.

challengemaster

The goggles, they do nothing!

zerohamster

That is shockingly overdone HDR :O
There is a nice program called Dynamic Photo HDR that you can make HDR shots but it gives a nice look if you just have a slight contrasty look rather than the trippin balls look
The good thing about that program is you can do it with a single photo (faux HDR look) with great results and only needing one photo makes it so much easier to do (no tripod needed essentially and no alignment issues).

As the others have said it does rope you in at first with the saturation and contrasty look but you will look back in a while and wonder why you liked that look but you can still get some nice looking photos by using the settings in modest amounts.