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On Tuesday, July 3rd, I was a guest on TWiT Photo, the weekly photo show on the TWiT network hosted by Catherine Hall and Leo Laporte. In case you forgot to tune in live or if you live in an unfortunate [...]
Those of you who follow farbspiel-photo.com closely may have noticed that I took a little hiatus over the last few weeks. The reason is not that I am exhausted or tired of what I do here – not at all! I am more fired up than ever and full of exciting new plans. [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Take me to Istanbul (HDR Panorama)“. The final image was created from 10×3 TIFF files (10 series of 3 autobracketed RAW images that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW). You can see the 30 source images at the top. These images were merged into 10 [...]
Here are the source images of the “Santorini Cathedral” image. Its a set of 6 exposures for you to download and play with.
Go back to the Pics-to-play-with feature list to get more pics and some general information.
Title: Santorini Cathedral (HDR) Links Download [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Santorini Cathedral (HDR)“. On the left side, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 6-shot autobracketing series with +2EV to -3EV in 1EV steps. In the middle, you see the result of merging those shots into a [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “St. Martin’s Cathedral (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 4×5 TIFF files (series of 4 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to 4×5 TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 12 source images [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Library (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 7×3 TIFF files (series of 3 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW). You can see the 21 source images in the left three columns. These images were merged [...]
Most HDR tutorials and books implicitly assume that you are using a tripod for your work. A tripod gives you stability, ensures that images are perfectly aligned straight out of the camera, and allows for long shutter speeds without blur. However, there are also a number of disadvantages, and in many [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Refuge (HDR Panorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 manually bracketed RAW images that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with). You can see the 25 source images on the left side. These images were merged into 5 [...]
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Title: The Alley (HDR) Links Download the source images here (~72MB)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Alley (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 3-shot autobracketing series with -2, 0 and +2 EV. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of merging [...]
Go back to the Pics-to-play-with feature list to get more pics and some general information.
Title: Mountain Shed (HDR) Links Download the source images here (~94MB)
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This is the before-and-after comparison of “Mountain Shed (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 4-shot autobracketing series with -4, -2, 0 and +2 EV. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Ethnographic Museum – Budapest, Hungary (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 15 source [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Tube (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 3-shot autobracketing series with 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of merging [...]
This video shows the post-processing work all the way through to the finishing touches. Each major step is indicated by a subtitle.
View the final result and read more information on the post-processing work here: The Ingress (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Ingress (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 4×5 TIFF files (series of 4 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 12 source images in the [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Up! (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 3×5 TIFF files (series of 3 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 15 source images in the left [...]
One of the main problems of any HDR workflow that involves tone-mapping is noise. The most widely used tone-mapping operators are based on local contrast enhancement. Unfortunately, they also “enhance” the noise in your images. Thus, noise reduction (NR) is imperative. But what is the best way of doing this, and at which [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Basilica of Vierzehnheiligen – Bad Staffelstein, Germany (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the [...]
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