As many of you remember from my first post about HDR or high dynamic range photography, these type of images can really spice up your digital scrapbook layouts and your photography. And they are so easy to get cool results. I have to admit I really don’t know what I’m doing – just visually playing around but I am loving the results. A quick recap: I am photographing 3 separate exposures at normal, +2 f/stops and –2 f/stops. I then open the pictures in Photomatix Pro
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Original picture of some rare ice in a puddle:
(click on any picture to enlarge)
Some variations
Beautiful holly outside our house:
The HDR version – I was aiming for a natural look:
And last – a house in our neighborhood:
The HDR version:
This is a variation I did using the Topaz Software Simplify plug-in – a review coming within two weeks!
I really like this one – how about you?
Would you like a tutorial on how to do these type of pictures? Leave a comment and if there is enough interest I’ll try a series of video tutorials.
Other posts you will enjoy:
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- Foto Friday – Keep it on the down low… We have been having a blast teaching our Digital Photography Master Class. In this 4-session class we are exploring the finer points of exposure, photography inside and outside, and post-processing your images. We’ll be running it...
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March 5, 2010
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Thanks for the inspiration!! I have been wanting to try this for a while and I think I’m going to do it today!!!!