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Old Sep 30, 2007 | 09:05 PM
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spiffy new hdr pics (yeah again haha...)

i had some spare time during the weekend, so i snapped a few pics...

here are the results!

btw...at the moment i dont have a garage to house my car and i didnt have time to wash it before i took these pics















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Old Sep 30, 2007 | 09:47 PM
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sweet pics! I need to learn how to do this for sure!
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Old Sep 30, 2007 | 09:52 PM
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Wow, really nice, and are your low beams really yellow?
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 01:24 AM
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really cool i like it a lot
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 01:35 AM
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What kind of camera do you use?

Can you post higher resolution pictures of your car? It'll be great as a wallpaper
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 02:07 AM
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very nice and tasteful
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 02:29 AM
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sweet pics konig, you never fail to impress
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 02:43 AM
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thanks for the comments everyone, i try =)

and no my low beams arent yellow, i was really suprised at how they came out when i saw them too...i was expecting a blue color but not yellow!
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 02:58 AM
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Wow! Really tasteful.
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 04:36 AM
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DIY DIY DIY!..lol

must post how to take pics like that!
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 04:37 AM
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DIY DIY DIY!..lol

must post how to take pics like that!
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 07:51 AM
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Just LOVE>>>>>>>LUV<<<<<<<<<<<<<the pics!! I want a camera like that!!
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 09:32 AM
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I really like that 2nd one.
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Whitehot


I really like that 2nd one.
Me 2
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 01:41 PM
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pics are very good! teach me
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 02:00 PM
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It's not true HDR, but cool none the less. It's so easy a caveman can do it and you don't need any special camera. Though I must give props for your compositions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 05:19 PM
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sweet pics. i love those wheels!!
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 09:43 PM
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looks like hdr to me, just looks like he didn't tweak the curve as much as most people do. I like both styles, this one makes for really nice realistic photography, i also like the super-tweaked curves versions that people make because they have a great surrealism to them. I've been practicing a little but i still have made any shots that i'm happy with. Nice work.
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Old Oct 1, 2007 | 10:56 PM
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thats the part where i always start to struggle is the curves. I dont quite know how to get it where its looking surreal ............like so

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Old Oct 2, 2007 | 02:27 AM
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thanks for the comments everyone, Renesis SE3P im using a canon S3 camera

and yes these are definately hdr pics, used exposure bracketing to get 3 pictures ranging from -2 to +2 exposure and combined them using Photomatix. then i edited them in photoshop for a ridiculous amount of time because i keep changing the most minute things haha...but its fun.

i know what you mean by some HDR pics looking much more realistic than others, i like to do both kinds of pictures. for this set of pics i stayed closer to the realistic view.
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Old Oct 2, 2007 | 05:52 AM
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Here's what I mean about true HDR. I'll copy and paste the bit of info from the link I just posted.

"HDR" is now popularly used to refer to the process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range. This composite technique is different from, and generally of lower quality than, the production of an image from a single exposure of a sensor that has a native high dynamic range. Tone mapping is also used to display HDR images on devices with a low native dynamic range, such as a computer screen.

I have done Photoshop manipulation for 15 years. www.altspace.com
Below is an example of making the curves more true to life.


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Old Oct 2, 2007 | 11:13 AM
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hmm...so what program do you use to make the actual hdr images?

i still dont see what i am doing that makes my images not true hdr images...i have done photoshop manipulation for about 3 years =P so i still have much to learn...
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Old Oct 2, 2007 | 01:26 PM
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altspace so when you use hdr its just to get a more true to life picture? because your pic looks like all the levels are balanced. But in some cases the HDR i see like the pic i posed almost look cartoony, how is that achieved
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Old Oct 2, 2007 | 02:17 PM
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tried to do a more surealistic kind of tone on this hdr picture i took, doesnt seem to have turned out very good for this picture haha. kinda noisy...

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Old Oct 2, 2007 | 02:19 PM
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is this surreal enough haha

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