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Postby TracyB » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:49 pm

Barb - although I don't yet own a raw capable camera, I've been looking into HDR a bit.

My understanding is that it requires the different exposures of the same image shot in raw format. I see someone else has already mentioned http://www.hdrsoft.com/

I look the look of this technique. There are actions that can mimic a similar result such as playing around with midtones/highlight/shadows settings but I sure like the HDR results in the photos I've seen in a photography forum I frequent.
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Postby BarbaraC » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:11 am

TracyB wrote:Barb - although I don't yet own a raw capable camera, I've been looking into HDR a bit.

My understanding is that it requires the different exposures of the same image shot in raw format. I see someone else has already mentioned http://www.hdrsoft.com/

I look the look of this technique. There are actions that can mimic a similar result such as playing around with midtones/highlight/shadows settings but I sure like the HDR results in the photos I've seen in a photography forum I frequent.


I like the look of it too, though not always. Sometimes I want the lows to remain just that way: extremely low. Rarely do I want blown-out highs, but even that sometimes works.

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Postby hardsoftware » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:33 am

Ben, despises being called Benjamin,


As another "Ben" I used to hate being called "Benny" However, I have since learned to live with it as it is the only name my brother and sisters address me by. My actual name is Benceslau. Yep, named after my grandfather Bences, which makes me Ben the Third, Ben 3, Ben Jr.Jr.??? :wink:

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Postby BarbaraC » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:27 am

How do you pronounce Benceslau?! Ben-sess-law?

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Postby hardsoftware » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:16 pm

Yes, and I may have spelt it wrong. It is simular to "Good King Wenceslaw" or however it is pronounced and spelled

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Postby bigsewed » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:21 pm

Although it is a Lightroom article...Here is a good description of HDR and where Adobe is headed from Wired...
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/ ... s-abo.html
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Postby BarbaraC » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:47 pm

Wes, I hope they're thinking of increasing the HDR ability in Photoshop, too.

Did you follow the article's link to Flickr? I was stunned by some of what I saw.

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Postby bigsewed » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:35 am

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I sure did...The pictures have a real attraction to them...
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