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Have you ever uploaded an image to your favorite photo sharing site just to come back the next day and discover that there are certain features in it that you don’t like? Maybe the sky is too dark, the colors have too much saturation, or the contrast is too low. The [...]
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)
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 [...]
View the final result: The Boat – Ko Panyi, Thailand (HDR)
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This video is available in HD (1080p). Click the “YouTube” button to the lower right of the player above to go to the original video to watch it in HD. Important: You will have to switch the player to “1080p” to [...]
Exif data is the meta data stored in image files by most modern digital cameras. It contains information about the shooting situation (shutter speed, aperture, focal length etc.) and a lot of other useful data. Your HDR workflow usually removes this data either completely or partially at one stage or the other. Here, [...]
Chromatic aberration (in short “CA”, sometimes also referred to as “color fringing”) is an effect caused by a lot of lenses, in particular cheaper models and wide-angle lenses. It is caused by the failure of a lens to focus all colors to the same convergence point. The effects are color fringes particularly at [...]
View the final result: Natural History Museum – London, United Kingdom (HDR)
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View the final result: St. John’s Co-Cathedral – Valletta, Malta (HDR Vertorama)
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This is the first making of video of my HDR processing. You will also find this video in my flickr stream. I decided to publish such material outside of flickr using other services that offer more features and flexibility.
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In this section, I will describe my general HDR workflow. I will not go into the details as these will be discussed in other sections. Once you have shot the photos out in the field, the HDR work really only starts. I know what you think: “He’s right! You still have to run the shots [...]
HDR processing is renowned for producing a lot of noise due to the amplification of the local contrast. Therefore, noise reduction is a vital step in your post-processing work. There are different philosophies as to whether noise reduction should be applied at the very start or at the very end of the whole [...]
This tutorial shows you how to create an HDR panorama (or vertorama) using Photoshop and Photomatix.
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