Hiking HDR style

[Recty]

Just a shot from tonight out hiking that I liked... I've been messing around with HDR a lot and enjoying it.

Some of the things HDR can do are so amazingly phony that it's not even funny, but I really like the way this turned out.

This is taken with my 10-22, I've been enjoying messing around with the wide angle stuff.

 

[Mchava]

wow that looks awesome. I too just started playing with HDR and I got to say my pictures are 100% better then before.

 

[truthdesigns]

Nice recty!!! I have been playing with photoshop alot with my HDR's If you open up the original shot and your tone mapped
HDR into photo shop and mask some places that look really
blown out or fake I have been getting some really nice looking
HDR Images.

 

[Recty]

You know what is weird...

Look at the bottom of the clouds on the right and left side. There is a part of each one that there is a very defined and clear line where the clouds are bluish and then switch to gray... I dont know how that happened. It's a nice clear real defined line, definitely not something I brushed in.

 

[aquariumclown]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15383286#post15383286 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by truthdesigns
Nice recty!!! I have been playing with photoshop alot with my HDR's If you open up the original shot and your tone mapped
HDR into photo shop and mask some places that look really
blown out or fake I have been getting some really nice looking
HDR Images.

How would you mask out the blown out areas? I would like to do that in some of my images

Hope I'm not hijacking but I took this shot this last weekend messing with hdr. Learned to set my camera on auto exposure bracketing, plus did some lens distortion correction. I know the the stuff on the fridge is distracting but this wasn't a well planned out shot but it came out ok. Critiques welcome.

 

[truthdesigns]

There are a bunch of different ways to do it, The easiest way
is to open your HDR Image in Photoshop and open the original shot as well. Place the original layer under the HDR Layer and
you can use the Eraser and erase away parts of the HDR layer
to get a really clean almost natural looking HDR Image. Masking
in Photoshop is a huge subject to cover. Here is a link thats got
a lot of good info on it! Stuck in Customs Check out part 3 of the tutorial and this is where I learned how to mask my HDR's!!


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