Lots of HDR photo examples

[Tareq Alhemrani]

[Tareq Alhemrani]

Interlaken, Switzerland




Paris, France

[Tareq Alhemrani]

[Tareq Alhemrani]

[Susan]

many wonderful images here! What programs are you all using? or are you processing manually? I am considering Photomatix. or maybe Topaz...Any opinions on any program welcome!

[Tareq Alhemrani]

many wonderful images here! What programs are you all using? or are you processing manually? I am considering Photomatix. or maybe Topaz...Any opinions on any program welcome!

I use Photomatix then Photoshop for final results.

[Susan]

I use Photomatix then Photoshop for final results.

Tareq - I think I will take that as a thumbs up for the program as your images are breathtaking!

[Nae]

Hi Tareq,

Your photo's are amazing!
It has inspired me to get into HDR and buy photomatrix.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Good Morning!
Tareq,
BRAVO!

[Roy Simmons]

Hi there Tareq

Most unusual photos and extremely well done. I have never seen anyone push the limits of contrast in colour like your images do. A job well done, man.

roy simmons

[Colin Southern]

Hi there Tareq

Most unusual photos and extremely well done. I have never seen anyone push the limits of contrast in colour like your images do. A job well done, man.

roy simmons

Hi Roy,

I just wanted to take a monent to say "Welcome to CiC"

If you get a chance, pop a reply onto the welcome thread to tell us a little bit about yourself!

How did you find us? Been shooting long?

[arith]

Some are stunning; I don't say that often. But some have overpowering sky. How do you get people in an HDR? I mean sharp.

[Colin Southern]

Some are stunning; I don't say that often. But some have overpowering sky. How do you get people in an HDR? I mean sharp.

Often you'll find that the reason that images containing movement (including people) are sharp is that the image was shot from a single exposure, and isn't HDR at all.

I'm not sure if Tareq has in fact use multiple exposures for any of these, but I don't see anything here that's necessarily HDR - just ultra-tone mapped images, which are a different beast from HDR.

You can get these ultra-tone-mapped results from normal exposures.

[arith]

Often you'll find that the reason that images containing movement (including people) are sharp is that the image was shot from a single exposure, and isn't HDR at all.

I'm not sure if Tareq has in fact use multiple exposures for any of these, but I don't see anything here that's necessarily HDR - just ultra-tone mapped images, which are a different beast from HDR.

You can get these ultra-tone-mapped results from normal exposures.

I like the one with the sun shining through the trees the most, but the sky in most is most overpowering.

I was thinking it may be possible to get people in a HDR since they end up in mine accidentally. Maybe one exposure with people the rest without.

However when I purposely try they look like ghosts.

[Colin Southern]

I was thinking it may be possible to get people in a HDR since they end up in mine accidentally. Maybe one exposure with people the rest without.

However when I purposely try they look like ghosts.

You can do - but most of todays cameras will capture up to 12 stops in a RAW shot - a purely reflective scene only requires around 4 so that's a lot of headroom to recover headroon if exposing for backlighting.

Point I'm trying to make is "don't associate Tareq's images here with being HDR" (they may or may not be HDR - no way to really tell). HDR refers to the the capturing of the entire dynamic range of the original scene - once they're presented on a monitor (or paper) by definition you're down to around 6 stops (4 stops paper), so it's a relatively low-dynamic range end result. Unfortunately, some popular packages out there are coded to take ANY type of capture (ie multiple brackted shots covering a high dynamic range or a single shot covering a limited dynamic range) and exaggerate the contrast and saturation into a "characteristic" look that Tareq has demonstrated here - a look that, unfortunately, many have associated with being "HDR" when in reality whether it's HDR or not bares little to no resemblence to how the final shot looks.

[lexart]

28th August 2009 01:36 AM post are well done... not to overly cooked and no halos. I like the MONTY boat.

I also do HDR with photomatix, lightroom and photoshop. When including people in the picture, I erase them away when they appear like ghosts and replace them with the original.. then some tweaking. Thanks for sharing Tareq