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Alex Nail wrote:
Hooray. Just what I wanted to see. Very helpful. The key I gues is using loads of exposures. I supose you bracket manually?

Alex

You got it, Alex! Tons of exposures and manual bracketing on a very, very steady tripod. See my response to Al's question.

Jan 30, 2007 at 03:27 PM

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p.2 #2 · HDR Tutorial

As Bruce allmighty says B-E-A-UTIFUL... Thanks a lot for taking the time and writting these wonderful tutorials for us.

But... what about us with CS1? it doesn't have HDR merge function...

Jan 30, 2007 at 04:03 PM

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BTW, those who want to save the tutorial, the easiest way how to do it is to go to the "file" menu in your browser and select "save page as"... At least IE and Firefox can do it easily. I don't know about Safari, but I supose it can do it as well....
When you need it, you'll simply open it later from the destination you saved it to. It will save the whole first page including pictures.

Jan 30, 2007 at 04:08 PM

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milanissimo wrote:
As Bruce allmighty says B-E-A-UTIFUL... Thanks a lot for taking the time and writting these wonderful tutorials for us.

But... what about us with CS1? it doesn't have HDR merge function...

I don't think CS1 has that tool. Time for an upgrade, maybe?

Jan 30, 2007 at 04:09 PM

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p.2 #5 · HDR Tutorial

Nicely done. I'm often frustrated with the 3 bracket limit as well. Not only does it introduce the possibility of movement, but it takes more time to set up and HDR images tend to show up best when the time between shots is minimized.

Jan 30, 2007 at 04:35 PM

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p.2 #6 · HDR Tutorial

I want to shoot HDR now...
Thanks for the tips

Jan 30, 2007 at 04:38 PM

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p.2 #7 · HDR Tutorial

It would be great if we could save all the tutorials in a PDF and link to it at the top of the page, just like some of the other forums on here. Can we do this??

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:00 PM

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mrtwister wrote:
It would be great if we could save all the tutorials in a PDF and link to it at the top of the page, just like some of the other forums on here. Can we do this??

Good idea! I'll look into it.

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:06 PM

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p.2 #9 · HDR Tutorial

Thanks Mahesh! I've been learning so much just hanging out here =) You should have these posted with the other tutorials for future reference. I'm sure many will benefit from it.

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:31 PM

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p.2 #10 · HDR Tutorial

Another great tutorial, Mahesh. Thank you for taking the time to write this up. Both your tutorials are phenominal!

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:35 PM

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Refraction wrote:
I'm often frustrated with the 3 bracket limit as well. Not only does it introduce the possibility of movement, but it takes more time to set up and HDR images tend to show up best when the time between shots is minimized.

You could bracket three shots, the quickly dial in a +-1 exposure compensation and bracket another three to get 6 shots in in stop increments.

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:44 PM

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thapamd wrote:

Hi Al,

My camera can't do 9 braketed exposures either (one of the features I envy on the Nikon D2X). I'm forced to touch the camera. The first bracket set is -4,-3,-2; second set is -1, 0, +1; 3rd set is +2, +3, +4. After you change a bracket set, the key is to wait a few seconds. This allows the little vibrations from your touch to dampen. If you truly have a very steady setup, the camera should "rest" back to the same position. Another pretty cool feature about HDR in PS is that if there are minimal movements, the software corrects for them. I've noticed that a few of my shots have actually been rotated and cropped automatically.

Are you telling me that your $7k camera doesn't have a bracketing custom function? I'm surprised I don't hear more complaints about this. I'm even more surprised someone hasn't written a firmware hack for this. It would be pretty easy I would imagine...

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:44 PM

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holmespun wrote:
Refraction wrote:
I'm often frustrated with the 3 bracket limit as well. Not only does it introduce the possibility of movement, but it takes more time to set up and HDR images tend to show up best when the time between shots is minimized.

You could bracket three shots, the quickly dial in a +-1 exposure compensation and bracket another three to get 6 shots in in stop increments.

That's exactly what I do, Steve.

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:47 PM

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ajkessler wrote:
thapamd wrote:

Hi Al,

My camera can't do 9 braketed exposures either (one of the features I envy on the Nikon D2X). I'm forced to touch the camera. The first bracket set is -4,-3,-2; second set is -1, 0, +1; 3rd set is +2, +3, +4. After you change a bracket set, the key is to wait a few seconds. This allows the little vibrations from your touch to dampen. If you truly have a very steady setup, the camera should "rest" back to the same position. Another pretty cool feature about HDR in PS is that if there are minimal movements, the software corrects for them. I've noticed that a few of my shots have actually been rotated and cropped automatically.

Are you telling me that your $7k camera doesn't have a bracketing custom function? I'm surprised I don't hear more complaints about this. I'm even more surprised someone hasn't written a firmware hack for this. It would be pretty easy I would imagine...

It's a shame, isn't it? A camera that expensive and no option to bracket more than 3 shots...oh well.

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:49 PM

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p.2 #15 · HDR Tutorial

as a d2x owner, i didn't realize i had it so good! thanks for the tutorial. I put together an HDR image last night so I'll see if I can appy some of the insight you shared!

chris

Jan 30, 2007 at 05:52 PM

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p.2 #16 · HDR Tutorial

It's a shame, isn't it? A camera that expensive and no option to bracket more than 3 shots...oh well.

What kind of camera do you have? I've read Canon 1 series cameras can be set to bracket up to seven shots at +/- 3 EV

Jan 30, 2007 at 06:11 PM

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p.2 #17 · HDR Tutorial

holmespun wrote:

It's a shame, isn't it? A camera that expensive and no option to bracket more than 3 shots...oh well.

What kind of camera do you have? I've read Canon 1 series cameras can be set to bracket up to seven shots at +/- 3 EV

That's news to me...I'd love to know how. I shoot with Canon's flagship camera: 1Ds MarkII

Jan 30, 2007 at 06:15 PM

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p.2 #18 · HDR Tutorial

I'm not sure how to do it because I don't have one, but I read it here:

http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_3.htm#camera

Jan 30, 2007 at 06:16 PM

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p.2 #19 · HDR Tutorial

holmespun wrote:
I'm not sure how to do it because I don't have one, but I read it here:

http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_3.htm#camera

Thanks, I'll look at my owner's manual more carefully. I may have missed something.

Jan 30, 2007 at 06:26 PM

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p.2 #20 · HDR Tutorial

I think P.Fn-08 may be able to do it. I'd be curious to here if this works for you.

Here's more on the function:

http://www.naturescapes.net/082004/ej0804.htm

Jan 30, 2007 at 07:08 PM

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