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HDR experiment with the buying public.

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  • #32
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    I reckon you'll have to go completely OTT to provide any interesting data. Totally overcooked. A complete broiler. However I think that your eventual results will be depressing for all right-minded (ie those that hate HDR) people. It'll probably sell like hotcakes. To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the public.


  • #33
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    An edit done through Topaz Adjust...

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  • #34
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    Nforce wrote: »
    An edit done through Topaz Adjust...

    Moar ! MOAR !!!


  • #35
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    DaireQuinlan wrote: »
    Moar ! MOAR !!!


    :p


  • #36
    Morrisseeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    The Sky, it does not like HDR !! :eek:
    It thinks it's 'Highly Dangerous Radioactivity' :p


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  • #37
    sNarah
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    Very interesting.

    Keep up posted what the general puclic has to say Humber.


  • #38
    DK32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭DK32


    Hi, you dont happen to have the raw file for this image do you?
    It's far easier to work with than a jpeg.

    Here are a couple.

    First one was made up of the 3 images, +1 0 -1 exposures.
    Second one has a tilt-shift style applied.

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  • #39
    .Longshanks.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭.Longshanks.


    DK32 wrote: »
    Hi, you dont happen to have the raw file for this image do you?
    It's far easier to work with than a jpeg.

    I think it's scanned film


  • #40
    DK32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 780 ✭✭✭DK32


    hence the uber grain


  • #41
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 31,465 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Out of interest what camera/lens was used for the shot, it looks nice and sharp


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  • #42
    humberklog
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    DaireQuinlan wrote: »
    To paraphrase H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the public.


    Now that is no joke. The last few months have been a real eye opener.


    @DK, as said there's no raw file as it is scanned film.

    @Ghost train...eh...jayzuz it's a bit hard to explain the camera and when I googled it the whole internet just denied its very existence. It's a Fujinon zoom 38-115mm, fz-3000. All the setting are auto. Grand. It's a little cracker of a camera and I've pulled out some smashing snaps with it. Best present ever;).

    @sNarah: well I'll be in printers first thing and pics will be hanging by 11. That said the very first sale this morning was that poxy pic!!! And not just one! Same guy paid up front for a 2nd (which he'll get tomorrow too). There's no accounting for and you'll never 2nd guess peoples taste.:pac:


  • #43
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    humberklog wrote: »
    @sNarah: well I'll be in printers first thing and pics will be hanging by 11. That said the very first sale this morning was that poxy pic!!! And not just one! Same guy paid up front for a 2nd (which he'll get tomorrow too). There's no accounting for and you'll never 2nd guess peoples taste.:pac:

    You see ? Now look what you've gone and done. (Respect for rest of humanity) < (Respect for rest of humanity before I read that post above). :mad:


  • #44
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    DaireQuinlan wrote: »
    You see ? Now look what you've gone and done. (Respect for rest of humanity) < (Respect for rest of humanity before I read that post above). :mad:



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQPY4LlbJ4


  • #45
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    How would it look done on a film strip?


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    I can hear DQ's toeneils cutting into the soles of his Birkenstocks:pac::pac:.

    I would be interested in seeing how this stuff react to the treatment if anyone was really, really, bored and wanted to hear the screams DQ above the rooftops of Rathmines.:D


  • #46
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    humberklog wrote: »
    I can hear DQ's toeneils cutting into the soles of his Birkenstocks:pac::pac:.

    Sheesh, obviously my toenails wouldn't cut into the soles of my Birkenstocks because they'd be protected by the pair of white socks I'd be wearing with them :D


  • #47
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    humberklog wrote: »
    How would it look done on a film strip?


    I would be interested in seeing how this stuff react to the treatment if anyone was really, really, bored and wanted to hear the screams DQ above the rooftops of Rathmines.:D


    Let the screams begin!!! :eek::D


  • #48
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Nforce wrote: »
    Let the screams begin!!! :eek::D

    Huh? Oh no I see now...Nforce while your pic was a stroke of genius I was thinking more about the image (Trinity) being done over in HDR.

    :pac:


  • #49
    Nforce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,924 ✭✭✭Nforce


    Not even I could be THAT cruel,HK!!:p

    Although.....


  • #50
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Oh that's good nforce.


  • #51
    Morrisseeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    There's a FREE HDR program called QTPFSGUI (download here) if you want to try it humberklog. Of course if it works for you and you become very rich then naturally we would have a 'gentlemans agreement' where I would get 20% of the profits :p
    Doing a search there, I remember discussing it previously


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  • #52
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    Morrisseeee wrote: »
    There's a FREE HDR program called QTPFSGUI (download here) if you want to try it humberklog. Of course if it works for you and you become very rich then naturally we would have a 'gentlemans agreement' where I would get 20% of the profits :p

    I presume the reciprocal is true also, that if necessary you'll pay 20% of his medical bills, right ? :D


  • #53
    Morrisseeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,152 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    reciprocal
    Mmmmm........I'll have my lawyers look into this straight away !


  • #54
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Sooooo the red car and the blue car had a race....

    I framed an A4 version of honer's pic (with my touch of PP too) and no joy. I did frame 5x7 versions of both Longshanks and Honer's and let them do there thing...5-2 to Longshanks.

    I'll pop Longshanks version in A4 into a frame in the morning and see how that goes.


  • #55
    oshead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭oshead


    Sterling scientific work you're doing there. :)


  • #56
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    oshead wrote: »
    Sterling scientific work you're doing there. :)

    Flat out in the lab Dave. Big Tefal head on me and graphs galore.


  • #57
    Gr1f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭Gr1f


    OK, i'm gonna throw in my 2 cent.

    HDRi images are generated by increasing the dynamic range of an image using several exposures. A minimum of 3 is usually required.

    So, this begs the Q. How do you propose to generate anything like a proper HDR image with one flat 8bit image??

    HDR images can look terrible or can look amazing. Depending on 1. the source images and, more importantly imho, 2. who is creating the image. Most over-cooked HDRi's are such because the person creating it doesn't know how to use either photoshop or photomatix pro correctly.

    I have seen truly stunning results that any viewer would find hard to perceive how the image was created in the first place. I have also seen truly terrible ones that ruined a previously average photo. (most)

    The image in question here could probably do with some simple enhancements to remove the washed out flat look to it. That's another thing and NOT HDR :-)

    </ENDRANT>


  • #58
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Gr1f wrote: »
    OK, i'm gonna throw in my 2 cent.

    QUOTE]

    No need (unless you just couldn't help yourself).

    I'm painfully aware that there is a process to acheive a HDR image. However in my first post, fourth paragraph, I say I'm looking for HDR effect. That's more than enough for the pic, the experiment and way more than enough that my interest would hold.


  • #59
    Gr1f
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭Gr1f


    humberklog wrote: »
    Gr1f wrote: »
    OK, i'm gonna throw in my 2 cent.

    QUOTE]

    No need (unless you just couldn't help yourself).

    I'm painfully aware that there is a process to acheive a HDR image. However in my first post, fourth paragraph, I say I'm looking for HDR effect. That's more than enough for the pic and way more than enough that my interest would hold.

    latter!

    I'm aware of your post. Just that HDR 'effect' is not really possible in a technical sense. Exposure blending on the other hand is.

    Sorry if i sound pedantic it's just to me using the term HDR is incorrect in this context. It's not as if there aren't alternative terms to use that would/might result in a better image. :-)


  • #60
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,161 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Gr1f wrote: »
    humberklog wrote: »



    Sorry if i sound pedantic it's just to me using the term HDR is incorrect in this context. It's not as if there aren't alternative terms to use that would/might result in a better image. :-)

    It does and apology accepted.
    While there are alternative terms to use that may result in a better image likewise there are many other threads about HDR where your point is wanted and is relevant.

    It's just a simple experiment that's all, where the request was taken up by a handful and I'm keeping them updated.


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  • #61
    .Longshanks.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,718 ✭✭✭.Longshanks.


    humberklog wrote: »
    Sooooo the red car and the blue car had a race....

    I framed an A4 version of honer's pic (with my touch of PP too) and no joy. I did frame 5x7 versions of both Longshanks and Honer's and let them do there thing...5-2 to Longshanks.

    I'll pop Longshanks version in A4 into a frame in the morning and see how that goes.
    Just catching up on the progress with this. Intresting results so far


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