This was an email sent to this guy who has a cool phlog and some cool flickr pix, but as I finished the email, thought it would make for a useful phlog entry of my own.
Here is a good HDR introduction and tutorial.
http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/
This explains it with Photomatix, which is the software I use.
Normal process:
1) Take what we think may be a cool picture.
2) Drop it into Aperture, Capture NX, or iPhoto.
3) Adjust the colors to my liking, especially greens and blues.
3) Adjust exposure, if necessary, then recover any lost highlights, if possible. Watch for graininess when doing recovery.
4) Pull into Photoshop and do dodge and burn on select areas, if necessary. Skip this step usually, but that is how I pulled the river in the valley out of the this photo.
5) If perform #4, then save as full resolution TIFF, then save back into Aperture, CaptureNX, or iPhoto.
6) Export as full resolution TIFF to desktop. Then save two more exposures at +2 and -2 as full resolution TIFF to the desktop.
7) Drag and drop those into Photomatix Pro
8) You're on your own from here, since it gets a bit more creative - read the URL above.
This is a simple workflow, but could have more from looking at what others on Flickr are doing with post-processing effects. Any additions? Any necessary clarifications left out? Please comment.
Mt Hiura (日浦岳)
3 か月前
2 件のコメント:
Hey Kirt - thanks for sending this, I'm going to have a go following your instructions. Really appreciate you taking the time to put this together for me.
Cheers,
Chris
No problem Chris. I thought you'd be coming back from the mountains with a fresh disk of new pics to try this out on. Also, I need to document what i do a bit more and this helps that effort.
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