Post your pictures!

[UncasMS]

I had the pleasure of enjoying a wonderful thunderstorm tonight.

After minutes of being indecisive whether or not to shutdown my pcs i had the idea of taking some pictures instead and here is the very shot which reasured me the choice was good.

EOS 30D
Lens: Tamron AF 2,8/17-50 XR Di II LD
Shutter speed: 30 Sec
Aperture: F 20
ISO: 250
Focal length: 17mm


Let's have some of your favourite pics, please - ideally with some annotations

[paglamon]

SONY DSC P52
Exposure Time:1/320 s.
ISO 100
f/8
Focal length 6.3 mm.

[Kabuchan]

Olympus Camedia C-4000

[UncasMS]

the weather in your pictures looks a bit nicer compared to what it was like here yesterday

[Kabuchan]

LOL Here in California the weather is always perfect!

A friend of mine at another forum has a beautiful gallery. Take a look if you have a chance, he's an amazing photographer! http://www.pbase.com/tcimages

[paglamon]

I was just browsing through the Landscape pics taken by ur friend,Kabu. STUNNING!!

[UncasMS]

First steps in HDRI

Here is a first result from my HDRI tests.

The first picture below is made from only 3 different photos but the output is still amazing compared to the single shots.

[Kabuchan]

That came out beautiful! What program are you using to render the photos?

[UncasMS]

I used PS but there are numerous HDR tools available for this job:

- easyHDR (freeware)

- Qtpfsgui (freeware)

- Photomatix (tends to very [too intense often] colours and creates lots of noise, which will have to be reduced)

- FDRTools

- Dynamic-PHOTO HDR


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btw: don't forget to take your different pictures with the SAME aperture - vary the exposure time!

[Kabuchan]

Thanks for the tip

I will have to hunt down something interesting to try this with.

[UncasMS]

Another HDR image

Inside view in a cathedral.

4 different pictures were the basis for the HDR image with additional image manipulation within photoshop afterwards.

[Kabuchan]

I found a great program called Face Smoother. If you take pics of peopel it might come in handy. http://www.picget.net/fs-photo-editor/what.html

[katzdvd]

That's really cool! Kind of like what they use when fixing the senior pictures for the yearbook!

[Kabuchan]

You do have to have a quality pic for it to work well. I tried it with one that was zoomed and cropped and it looked terrible.

[UncasMS]

I'd rather try to manually accomplish the job with imaging software like photoshop because you have full control over what is smoothed, how much is smoothed or which parts need to be "healed".

Tutorials like this one for PS can be found easily.

I used the following keywords in Google: photoshop skin smoother tutorial