PHOTOS PLEASE

Post by **PhoeniX** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:03 am

http://www.petemc.net/hdr-guide/

Here's a good HDR guide wrote by someone on some other forums I post at. Most of the examples on his site are really highly HDRd though, I know he did have some subtler ones.

I don't have his original photo but this looked much nicer.

Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:41 am

Here's some film shots on Provia 400F.

Maybe I'll rescan this one someday...

Post by **prince1000** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:40 pm

Doombrain wrote:Yeah. Take a picture of anything. HDR it, shit photoshop frame it and put your name in the bottom right. Don’t forget to add a drop shadow. Then bam, ultimate photo that everyone thinks is awesome BECAUSE IT LOOKS FUNNY.

So far I’ve only seen one I liked, and that just looks like good lighting.

Take your HDR and fuck off.

couldnt agree more

Post by **prince1000** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:42 pm

like that window shot dave. reminds me of a film still but without the plot. you need some subjects in your photos. well, sometimes.

Post by **werldhed** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:55 pm

Dave wrote:Here's some film shots on Provia 400F.

Damn you daev, I was going to take some lab photos, but you beat me to it.

Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:08 pm

prince1000 wrote:like that window shot dave. reminds me of a film still but without the plot. you need some subjects in your photos. well, sometimes.

Thx sir. I have plenty with people, but I just don't post them

Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:13 pm

werldhed wrote:
Dave wrote:Here's some film shots on Provia 400F.
Damn you daev, I was going to take some lab photos, but you beat me to it.

It's my documentary project this semester. Everyone is telling me it's a dumb idea, but none of them have to try and fit a project in between full time work and going to class

I just decided to do it at work

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:25 pm

Dave wrote:Here's some film shots on Provia 400F.

Maybe I'll rescan this one someday...

looks like the CCD advance motor on your scanner's fucked mate

Post by **FanaticX** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:27 pm

Yeah..i notice the banding effect as well.

Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:46 pm

I know it's the scanner.. they're work prints, so I don't really care. It's easy to fix, but the scans take twice as long. I had 40 negatives to scan

Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:04 pm

my rd1 gives that kind of colour

Post by **l0g1c** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:44 pm

Dave wrote:I know it's the scanner.. they're work prints, so I don't really care. It's easy to fix, but the scans take twice as long. I had 40 negatives to scan

How do you prep your negatives for scanning? Just compressed air and anti-static brush? I'm going to scan some in this weekend, but I'm a noob.

Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:04 pm

I don't even do that.. I just put them in the scanner. Unless you're using B&W, ICE takes care of everything

Post by **mac** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:05 pm

FanaticX wrote:

ok i'm blown away here.. and i don't get it.. thoose are photos you took and then you edited the hell out of them to look like they are painted?! would you do a tutorial for us newbs on how to achive such results or would that be too complex? ...
:icon28:

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:39 pm

FanaticX wrote:HDR and tone-mapping helps to evoke my idealized ultra-realistic memory of the scene. Some see life in HDR...some don't.

There are two ways to go about HDR. Shooting in JPEG mode, take multiple exposures at different stops (i.e. +4, +2, 0, -2, -4). In RAW mode a single properly exposed image will work. You can extract as many images with different exposures from that. I use both modes of process.

What is tone-mapping? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_mapping

Oops, turns out, I didn't mean tone-mapping (I even did that before myself), but the way some of your pics have that 50's style to them (blue car, hard rock cafe).

Can you explain how you do that?

Post by **l0g1c** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:02 am

Dave wrote:I don't even do that.. I just put them in the scanner. Unless you're using B&W, ICE takes care of everything

Man, I should tell the people at my local lab about this breakthrough technology. :icon7: Right now, my scans come back like this.
[lvlshot]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/382115391_72c59b24dd_b.jpg[/lvlshot]

And therein lies the reason I recently bought a photo scanner (Canoscan, nothing fanceh).

Post by **Captain** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:22 am

That structure looks pretty cool. Where/what is it?

Post by **l0g1c** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:57 am

Captain Mazda wrote:That structure looks pretty cool. Where/what is it?

It's just art. In the warmer months, water runs down the slide-looking thingy. It's on the campus where I go to school.

Post by **mjrpes** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:24 am

l0g1c wrote:
Man, I should tell the people at my local lab about this breakthrough technology. :icon7:

It's not really that new

Here's a Nikon scanner with it:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/control ... sku=310477

Post by **l0g1c** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:56 am

mjrpes wrote:
l0g1c wrote:
Man, I should tell the people at my local lab about this breakthrough technology. :icon7:
It's not really that new

Here's a Nikon scanner with it:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/control ... sku=310477

Hehe, I was being facetious. I guess I'm smiley-impaired.

Of course, you may be pulling me proverbial leg as well with your $1000 film scanner.

My CanoScan has Digital ICE (I teeenk). I thought it was just some buzzword bling bling that really doesn't do anything. I guess I'm pleasantly surprised.

Post by **FanaticX** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:53 am

mac wrote: ok i'm blown away here.. and i don't get it.. thoose are photos you took and then you edited the hell out of them to look like they are painted?! would you do a tutorial for us newbs on how to achive such results or would that be too complex? ...
:icon28:

I don't have time to do a tutorial but the process is pretty much outlined in that link Phoenix posted. The part where the images slowly turns into a picture/painting(what ever you want to call it) is a result of tone-mapping.

Post by **FanaticX** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:06 am

SplishSplash wrote:Oops, turns out, I didn't mean tone-mapping (I even did that before myself), but the way some of your pics have that 50's style to them (blue car, hard rock cafe).

Can you explain how you do that?

Well, it's a combination of tone-mapping and then creating layers and applying gaussian blur(Softlight) and unsharp-mask. On top of that, region editing(selectively erase blurred areas of the photo), adjusting saturation, and using the dry brush filter. Those photos I actually went over-board just to get the pronounce effect. I wasn't aiming for the '50's' effect as you so call it. I just wanted them to look like pictures/graphic art.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:16 am

Post by **FanaticX** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:26 am

Oh yeah, I'm not afraid to admit that I'm still a newb with this, I label, 'artificial photography' dubbed HDR / tone-mapping. When I have a new system and time to fine tune the process I might actually do it more.

Post by JB » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:20 pm

l0g1c wrote:
Captain Mazda wrote:That structure looks pretty cool. Where/what is it?
It's just art. In the warmer months, water runs down the slide-looking thingy. It's on the campus where I go to school.

i thought it looked suspiociously like a waterslide