Chat: Monthly competition january - hdr

[kevinjico]

Hi Miss DigiDiva is it ok to join here? i'm from the Philippines?

[Jediboy]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

wow lots of interest this month, thats great

I agree Chris.
For me this is something totally new, so I really hoping to learn a lot this month. Enjoying it already. God theme.

[nick_gray]

Originally Posted by Jediboy

I think that's looking better Nick, but agree that the sky could be improved. We need some more dramatic skies though. The HDR element is certainly there though.

I think my mistake with bracketing, is I just set my camera up to take three exposures - one stop under, one stop over and one normally exposed. When what I should be doing (especially if there is sky involved) is take an exposure reading of the sky and then another reading of the foreground, and then set the bracketing accordingly.

Does that sound right?

Nick

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by kevinjico

I will be using photomatix. such a great software.

Hello and welcome to the monthly competition forum, be great if you enter, look forward to it.

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by nick_gray

I think my mistake with bracketing, is I just set my camera up to take three exposures - one stop under, one stop over and one normally exposed. When what I should be doing (especially if there is sky involved) is take an exposure reading of the sky and then another reading of the foreground, and then set the bracketing accordingly.

Does that sound right?

Nick

In my (very limited) experience, one stop difference isnt enough, I did 2 stops. Gave more contrast

[nick_gray]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

In my (very limited) experience, one stop difference isnt enough, I did 2 stops. Gave more contrast

Thanks Chris, I'll give it a whirl and report back. I think I might have to adjust the exposure compensation (the central marker in the Expo.comp./AEB) to the left or right as well, depending on the brightness of the scene.

Nick

[nick_gray]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

wow lots of interest this month, thats great

I'm embarrassed to admit that my camera has just clicked over to reset the image counter, for the second time. So I've taken over 20,000 photos in the three years I've had my camera, and I've not got a lot to show for it. Over Christmas, I thought, rather than keeping all my rubbish shots to myself, I'd try to take part in the competitions a bit more and share my efforts with the kind folk on here.

Nick

[kerbside]

All my HDR images are done -1, 1. & +1 and I have had no troubles with that, tripod I feel is a must.
I believe that the number of shots does not matter and you may need more than 3 to capture the full dynamic range.
Also checking the histogram of each picture will help.

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by nick_gray

I'm embarrassed to admit that my camera has just clicked over to reset the image counter, for the second time. So I've taken over 20,000 photos in the three years I've had my camera, and I've not got a lot to show for it. Over Christmas, I thought, rather than keeping all my rubbish shots to myself, I'd try to take part in the competitions a bit more and share my efforts with the kind folk on here.

Nick

Excellent, a wise decision

[DigiDiva]

Originally Posted by kerbside

All my HDR images are done -1, 1. & +1 and I have had no troubles with that, tripod I feel is a must.
I believe that the number of shots does not matter and you may need more than 3 to capture the full dynamic range.
Also checking the histogram of each picture will help.

I never use the histogram. maybe its something I should start to do.