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Well done , Steve. I have never had cause to look closely at Canon's Personal Functions before to-day ! Moral here somewhere ! It does indeed appear that the Canon 1 series can be set to do up to 7 different exposures using Personal Function 8 --- that is , +/ - 1 , 2 and 3 stops . As usual , the Canon manual is pretty reticent on how to do this , but the function has to be activated with the camera connected via firewire to the computer . Apparently once the function has been activated in the camera's firmware it can be switched on and off at the camera .

I have yet to discover how this is done ; any advice from Canon 1 series users as to how to do this will be very welcome to me --- and doubtless others baffled by Canon's lack of a decent users' manual !

Afternote : Now set up and working fine . For the Canon 1 Ds , the instructions are contained in section 4 of the software manual .

Edited by Adrian Cray on Jan 31, 2007 at 10:34 AM GMT

Jan 30, 2007 at 07:55 PM

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p.3 #2 · HDR Tutorial

Yeah, it does seem pretty obscure. Odd you have to enable the functions on the computer. I'm thinking about getting a 1 series camera--maybe a new one if released this spring--and this seems like a great function for doing HDR work.

Jan 30, 2007 at 08:13 PM

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p.3 #3 · HDR Tutorial

Another wonderful turorial Mahesh. I too am interested in squeezing 7 exposures out of my 1Ds, and If i find I way, I'll post it.

Thank you for your great efforts here.

Bart Carrig

Jan 30, 2007 at 08:15 PM

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p.3 #4 · HDR Tutorial

Yahoo! Totally worked, Steve! Now I have automatic 7 bracketed images...this is so cool! Thanks a bunch, my friend, for letting me know...hey, I thought I was the one giving the tutorial.

Jan 30, 2007 at 08:27 PM

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p.3 #5 · HDR Tutorial

That's great to hear. Yet another reason for me to get a 1 series camera ;-)

BTW, thanks for the tutorial. Good stuff! I particularly liked your explanation of making the curves adjustment.

Jan 30, 2007 at 08:40 PM

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p.3 #6 · HDR Tutorial

thapamd wrote:
Yahoo! Totally worked, Steve! Now I have automatic 7 bracketed images...this is so cool! Thanks a bunch, my friend, for letting me know...hey, I thought I was the one giving the tutorial.

Glad you figured this out. I was really shocked when you said there was no way to do it, as I vaguely remembered hearing otherwise in the past. Looks like a good reason to get a 1 series

Jan 30, 2007 at 09:02 PM

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p.3 #7 · HDR Tutorial

It's good to know even the best are still learning

Jan 30, 2007 at 09:04 PM

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p.3 #8 · HDR Tutorial

OK, so can someone please give me $7000 so I can bracket 7 shots too

, lucky jerks!!!!

Jan 31, 2007 at 12:00 AM

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amgolds wrote:
OK, so can someone please give me $7000 so I can bracket 7 shots too

, lucky jerks!!!!

Al

You can pick one up over on the buy/sell forum or ebay for a little over 4k now. Hopefully that price will come down when the new one comes out this year.

Jan 31, 2007 at 01:03 AM

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p.3 #10 · HDR Tutorial

thanks Mahesh, it looks easy when you do it. That toning curve in the conversion from 32 bit to 16 bit is the crucial step.

Kevin

Jan 31, 2007 at 05:07 AM

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p.3 #11 · HDR Tutorial

Great tutorial! Thanks!

Jan 31, 2007 at 05:47 PM

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p.3 #12 · HDR Tutorial

Mahesh, I'm glad to see someone teaching the correct use of HDR instead of what we normally see, where the resulting image is overdone and looks like something from a sci-fi movie. Thanks for taking time.

Jan 31, 2007 at 06:42 PM

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p.3 #13 · HDR Tutorial

Both your tutorials are excellent. Thank you for taking time to produce this for all of us here.

-Phantom Knight

Jan 31, 2007 at 07:32 PM

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p.3 #14 · HDR Tutorial

By the way, for those that want more than 3 bracketed shots, simply shoot in manual mode. Keep Aperature where you want and simply change the shutter speed. Watch in the viewfinder and start with it at -3.0 and increase by less than 1.0 for each shot... very easy to do, but make sure you have a good tripod and ballhead and that they are both LOCKED tight before starting this.

Also, for those that want to print this whole thread, there is a "Print Post" button in the top left corner.... click that and see what happens.......

Feb 01, 2007 at 07:57 AM

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p.3 #15 · HDR Tutorial

How do you rate the advanatges and disadvantages of making an HDR image compared with bracketing raws and blending them in 16 bit layers?

Feb 01, 2007 at 01:45 PM

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p.3 #16 · HDR Tutorial

Hi Mahesh - thanks for this intro to HDR in photoshop - I've always struggled with CS2's HDR in the past and as a result prefered Photomatix, but I've just managed to produce an HDR image in CS2 using your guidance which is at least as good as the Photomatix result. Thanks. Paul.

Feb 01, 2007 at 05:19 PM

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p.3 #17 · HDR Tutorial

thapamd wrote:
You have to use unprocessed RAW files to create an HDR image. JPEG is not even an option.

Are you sure the RAW files have to be unprocessed? I started playing around with HDR yet again the other evening, and about the time I was giving up on it (yet again

), it occurred to me it might be worth trying to 'process' each RAW exposure in ACR, *then* start the HDR process.

But I had no clue if it would actually use the 'Image Settings' after processing each RAW, or whether it would ignore those and just use 'Camera Raw Defaults'.(?)

Does that even make sense?

Feb 02, 2007 at 12:38 AM

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p.3 #18 · HDR Tutorial

Thank you so much! I hope this gets "stickied" to the top of the forum

Feb 02, 2007 at 07:11 PM

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p.3 #19 · HDR Tutorial

I've created a pdf document of the tutorial... if you guys dont mind, i uploaded it to my website, and you can dowload at your will!

Link to HDR Tutorial

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Feb 02, 2007 at 07:39 PM

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p.3 #20 · HDR Tutorial

Thank you, so much, for this post and the one below! Absolutely amazing! I have been hoping to try out some HDR photography. Now, I can have a hand to guide me in my 1st trials.

BTW, are you in Seattle? Do you offer work shops?

Feb 02, 2007 at 08:02 PM

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