So I got Camtasia Pro and wanted to mess around with it a little bit, So I decided what not a better way than make a tutorial
It's my first tutorial I've ever made, so don't hate!
(Turn the volume up! Lol! I forgot to turn up the input on my condenser!)




Here is the final product:





E/
Also, check out this neat HD Video with music and Photo produced by me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EkH2B6G_y8

And if your into FPS gaming (Like a chipmunk lol!) Then check out this HD I made with my new registered version of Fraps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-f9OZTn1M

This post was edited by TheBlackRose66 on Feb 21 2009 06:54pm

excellent pic; thanx for guides too

Thanks

I really really hate it when people make "HDR" images from only 1 base image.

Learn to use bracketing on your camera, don't do it in PS.

well for some beginners like me, I find this useful.

thanks blackrose

Sometimes you don't have time to take 3 exposures...OR maybe you only had 1 chance to take the photo like from an airplane moving 500mph.
OR HDR of a person is almost impossible unless the person can stand the stillest in the world.


Lightroom does the exact same thing by bracketing the exposure as it would in camera.
You don't use PS to do it anyways, you use Lightroom and Photomatrix. Huge difference.
PS is only to reduce some noise, like you would in any noisy picture.

You don't have to, but you're better off learning to do it all properly, taking separate exposures on the camera. This will also give you better quality exposures to work with, as you're not going to be losing any image detail, which you would do when you're changing settings using a program, even if you're working from RAW's.

There's really few images that look good when they're done in HDR, and those that do look good tend to be static landscapes, so there's really no excuse for lazyness.

Some of the HDR images you've shown on these forums have been absolutely terrible, like the flower one, it'd have been much better if you'd have done separate exposures for those, as opposed to changing exposure settings in a computer program, it's not as if there's even any excuse when taking a macro of a photo, as nothing was moving and you could easily have just kept the camera in the same position, taken a normally exposed photo, then halved the shutter speed and taken another, and then finally doubling it (from the original properly exposed speed) and taking a photo that way, that way you'd have 3 photos, one underexposed by 1 stop, one properly exposed and one overexposed by one stop.

I did do separate exposures...I stated I did 5 in the thread.
It's just not a good subject to use. + with a reverse lens.


And this tutorial is how to do it with 1 picture, NOT 3 pictures.
So why are you talking about different exposures? It's not on the topic even of this tutorial -.-

Maybe someday I'll make a tut. on doing diff. exposures.
But for this tutorial which was requested by some friends, and made for them...it's for 1 picture.

How do you think people get the HDR of Grand Central Station?
They use one photo. OR they have their camera sitting on some sort of ledge, which would be harder.
You can't bring tripods into there.

But why bother making and HDR image when it ends up looking pants? Would you mind uploading the original image, I bet it looks much better than the HDR composite.

Also, why bother making a tutorial for the inferior method? Separate EV exposure from the camera are much better, hell, you can even set your camera to do it for you if you like, so it's not even hard.

I've got no idea which HDR image of GCS you're talking about, but you don't need a tripod to take steady images, a chair, wall, handrail, whatever can be sufficient, and no, it's not hard to do.

Fuck off.