hey guys!

For the first time in my life I've heard something about HDR or especially about OPT(What looks like HDR but isn't )

(Look at wenspics@flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wenspics_-_wpt/)

does anybody here know, what exactly is HDR/OPT and explain me how to do something like it? Just for Information: I'm using Photoshop CS3, hope it will work with that

Here are some examples of OPT from wenspics page:

HDR meansHigh Dynamic Range Pictures.
You need a stative for it. You Take 3 pictures wich are the same
1 normal
1 to light
1 to dark

you can put those 3 pictures together with photoshop.
then you need a special programm to do some tonemapping (gives nice colors/shadows)
HDRs just look insane

Look at this topic:

http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=25805394&f=265

hehe looks crazy, how long did it take you to make it?

and can anybody tell me what OPT is then?

pics 10 secs 20 secs 30 secs
tonemapping took 10 minutes

there are actually ways to create fake HDR in photoshop using only 1 jpeg image:


http://www.nill.cz/index.php?set=tu1

OPT is her own version of HDR.

It stands for Optimally Processed Technique.

I personally can't see a difference between her "OPT" as she has coined the term and HDR.

Having worked with HDR you can make it very subtle, in-between (which is some her stuff) or extreme (the rest) - which tends to look almost cartoonish.

This post was edited by Solarves on Dec 1 2008 08:59am