Chat: Monthly competition january - hdr

[Jediboy]

I've been out this morning in a last ditch effort to get some decent photos.
I walked to the local church with my kit, set up the tripod and was ready to go when I realised I'd left my freshly charged battery at home, and taken the flat one with me. Doh!!
Not amused but luckily it's only a short walk home again.

[hssutton]

Originally Posted by Jediboy

That's a good way of looking at it Harry. It does seem to be open to interpretation by people though.

Well when digital, or I should say decent digital cameras came into being, back end of last century HDR as such didn't exist, so we would manually blend several images in Photoshop. The aim of all this was to show detail in shadow and highlights.
Someone then developed a program to automatically blend several photos. Hence HDR was born.
Tone Mapping was something that was developed later and is really nothing to do with HDR though admittedly it's now incorporated in most HDR software programs.

I guess what as happened is relatively recent newcomers to photography see the two methods incorporated in one package and automatically assume both are actually part and parcel of the same thing.

I guess I'm a bit of a traditionalist as I've been into photography longer than most of you have existed

Harry

[Jediboy]

I am completely new to HDR. I downloaded a free version of Photomatix and Tone mapping was on there. I'll admit to not knowing the difference between the two.
When I look at HDR images on google, the results do vary with regard to how 'HDR' they are. At least that's how I interpret them. I guess so of the difference could be to tone mapping.

[Jediboy]

Here are a couple of efforts from this morning. Getting there, but have run out of time so need to choose and entry now.

[Jediboy]

And this one;

[hssutton]

Of the two I much prefer the first one.

Harry

[Jediboy]

Thanks Harry. I agree with you. I'll post it soon.

[DigiDiva]

Missed the deadline...stupidly thought it was midday today! DUH!!!!!!

[Jediboy]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Missed the deadline...stupidly thought it was midday today! DUH!!!!!!

That's a shame Chris. Did you get the photo you wanted in the end?

[wavemachine]

Originally Posted by DigiDiva

Missed the deadline...stupidly thought it was midday today! DUH!!!!!!

Oops own goal, and there was me feeling bad but as taken from the rules (ahem which you posted):-

2) To be valid images must be taken and entered after the theme has been posted, up to midnight UK time of the last day of the month.

We would all like to see your image though but it is a shame you didn't get it posted in time