your BALI collection is amazing, most of them are HDR? which camera and lens you used?
Thanks for the compliments. What you see on my Flickr is probably just a selection of my shots. Bali's so beautiful isn't it? I can't seem to get enough of Bali. If you need tips on where to go, just send me a private email.
It's probably wise to practice shooting HDR before going there.
hi
i didn't read all the psot here.
but i will share what i knew from a book:
hdr software works best with 5 exposures...
do not take exposure more than 2 stops apart
there are some more points to take note, but i have returned the book and i forgot to write them down.. but from my memory , here they are:
measure the scene dynamic range, and let's say the scene DR is 9 stops, than your exposures should cover one stops more at each end.
for example:
scene DR is 9 stops
|-4|-3|-2|-1|0|1|2|3|4|
your exposures should cover -5 and +5, so that will mean u will start from -5 to +5, making sure that each exposures are not more than 2 stops apart.
easy right?.. haha...
tone mapping is hard... i tried one with good result, but when i tried 3 exposures using tianya ND Graduated, i got a blue color cast in the sky... haha...
it more or less convince me that i need ND grad with different stops for a easy life.. haha..
Thanks for your reply.. do you remember the name of that book...
Mastering digital exposure and HDR imaging...
but perhaps u should get the book recommended in one of the posts by one brother... at least it is more focused on HDR...
hi
i didn't read all the psot here.
but i will share what i knew from a book:
hdr software works best with 5 exposures...
do not take exposure more than 2 stops apart
there are some more points to take note, but i have returned the book and i forgot to write them down.. but from my memory , here they are:
measure the scene dynamic range, and let's say the scene DR is 9 stops, than your exposures should cover one stops more at each end.
for example:
scene DR is 9 stops
|-4|-3|-2|-1|0|1|2|3|4|
your exposures should cover -5 and +5, so that will mean u will start from -5 to +5, making sure that each exposures are not more than 2 stops apart.
easy right?.. haha...
tone mapping is hard... i tried one with good result, but when i tried 3 exposures using tianya ND Graduated, i got a blue color cast in the sky... haha...
it more or less convince me that i need ND grad with different stops for a easy life.. haha..
Hi there. My experience with HDR is that being the lazy sort, I normally do not strictly "go according to the book". Very often, a +2, -2, and 0 is sufficient with the standard DSLR's AEB feature. I know some high end DSLR can do like 7 shots AEB.
The other reason is that I also want my shooting to be spontaneous, and not so bogged down by technicalities. By the time the nine shots exposures is taken, a lot of movements would have taken place in the scene.