Singapore Airshow 08 - Static Display

[loser7]

how did you make the pictures look so cartoonish? can u teach me how to in photoshop?
thanks.

 

[lastboltnut]

Thanks etegration and yes, all HDR, except the Machine Gun, its just tone mapped. Yah, I like the cockpit one to....Thanks again.

i like the corkpit one. all HDR?

 

[lastboltnut]

Hi mohgui, the A380 engine is also HDR, I waited for them crowd to be more settled and quickly snap the 3 exposure....thats why the people still have some motion blur....

i guess all of them except the A380 engine shot.

 

[lastboltnut]

Hi nikkie, thanks for the compliment. I merged the exposures in photomatix and do the usual adjustments in CS, like level, shadow/highlight, brightness & contrast and curves and highpass filter sharpening.....thats about all. Hope this helps.

I am still learning and experimenting how to make such poster colour look a like pics.

very nice. how did you do it? was it hard in the PS process?

how did you make the pictures look so cartoonish? can u teach me how to in photoshop?
thanks.

 

[lastboltnut]

Thank you all. Glad you like it.

The pics are refreshingly different...
Love #8 the most....

All very nice, especially the propellor one.

wow.. #6 and 11.. i like!!

Waiting for the other pictures to be uploaded. Nice. Thanks for sharing, TS.

i totally like it...!

the effect is more appropriate in aircrafts i guess

 

[lastboltnut]

Thanks scorpioh. Actually the sun was within the cloud, the HDR has captured it within the DR.

Edit: Sorry, after much looking and thought, it should be a flare and not the sun.....hahahah!! Sorry.

#4 is very nice, esp the clouds. great work.

 

[lastboltnut]

Thanks oeyvind for telling me that they look unreal....I was trying to get some feedback on this aspect. I am trying to make pic poster colour feel, but not to much. Thanks again.

man, this is too unreal, i.e. too much photoshop, guess this is what u intended.

 

[Andreq]

i feel the processing is overdone and makes some of the images look noisy or fake.

thanks for sharing though!

 

[lastboltnut]

Hi Andreq, good eye on the noise. Those noisy pic were due to my fault....some of the pics where taken with ISO800 as I forgot to switch back after shooting indoor...not due to processing.

So you feel its fake, thanks for the feed back.

i feel the processing is overdone and makes some of the images look noisy or fake.

thanks for sharing though!

 

[IONSOON]

nice effect

 

[shgfun]

nice weather for those shots. nice series. can't say i'm a big fan of HDR yet, some of your shots are quite nice and pleasing to the eyes, although may not be realistic.

 

[m3lv1nh0]

Hi mohgui, the A380 engine is also HDR, I waited for them crowd to be more settled and quickly snap the 3 exposure....thats why the people still have some motion blur....

Hello.. one question about HDR..

Instead of shooting 3 shots of different exposures, can you just shoot 1 in raw and use any raw editing software to change their exposures? This would ensure any moving subjects wouldn't get any motion blur right?

 

[xcesstunes]

hey, there.... 1st of all, nice pictures from the airshow.... 2ndly, ur postprocessing reminds me of dave hill.... ever tried the pp on potraits.... it's near to dave hill but i think if u ever work on potraits, try using lightings and strobes plus your PP...

i'm eager to see.....

keep up the good work... bcoz u hv a thumbs up from me for this series!

 

[lastboltnut]

Thank you IONSOON and shgfun.

nice effect

nice weather for those shots. nice series. can't say i'm a big fan of HDR yet, some of your shots are quite nice and pleasing to the eyes, although may not be realistic.

 

[lastboltnut]

Hi, HDR means high DR, if you only take 1 exposure, then the 12-14bit sensor DR is not high enough (on most cam) to qualify as HDR. Strictly speaking for single RAW processed pic is not HDR (again, unless those pic taken with 24bit sensor, like the Fuji SxPro), they are call tone mapped.

The Machine Gun pic in this series is Tone Mapped from a single RAW and not HDR.

And yes, single shot will eliminate movement....thats why some of the HDR pics in my series has moving clouds and the Bronco pic has the flag moving and now there are 2 flags..and I was lazy to clone one away.:bsmilie:

Hello.. one question about HDR..

Instead of shooting 3 shots of different exposures, can you just shoot 1 in raw and use any raw editing software to change their exposures? This would ensure any moving subjects wouldn't get any motion blur right?

 

[lastboltnut]

Hi xcesstunes, thanks for the nice compliment. Dave hill's pic has darker shadow, I may have to burn those shadow a bit more to match his style.

strobes......no investment yet, only has a SB600 with me.:sweatsm:

I will try on protrait when I have the time. Thanks for the suggestion.

hey, there.... 1st of all, nice pictures from the airshow.... 2ndly, ur postprocessing reminds me of dave hill.... ever tried the pp on potraits.... it's near to dave hill but i think if u ever work on potraits, try using lightings and strobes plus your PP...

i'm eager to see.....

keep up the good work... bcoz u hv a thumbs up from me for this series!

 

[xcesstunes]

no prob!

 

[Oly5050]

I have seen HDR before, and I think ur pics are great. But as HDR, I think there is too much blue hue to your image. The green of the military vehicles are gone. Did u deliberately PS it that way? I think it would be nice to see real HDR pics of some of the blues, greens etc.

 

[lastboltnut]

Hi Oly5050, thanks for the compliment.

Actually I did not adjust the colour at all....but HDR inherently will induce some colour shift....As about the green in military vehicle, SAF's green is not really that green and I think #15 (Leopard) and #18 (Apache) represents the SAF green pretty well (I have a sample SAF green infront of me now:sweatsm. But that said, my monitor is not calibrated, so it may be different to your.:cry:

After these poster series is done, I will try to go through the some of those I like to make them into more natural HDR and update here.

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions, really appreciate them.

I have seen HDR before, and I think ur pics are great. But as HDR, I think there is too much blue hue to your image. The green of the military vehicles are gone. Did u deliberately PS it that way? I think it would be nice to see real HDR pics of some of the blues, greens etc.

 

[Canew]

Hi nikkie, thanks for the compliment. I merged the exposures in photomatix and do the usual adjustments in CS, like level, shadow/highlight, brightness & contrast and curves and highpass filter sharpening.....thats about all. Hope this helps.

I am still learning and experimenting how to make such poster colour look a like pics.

Thanks for the tip, lastboltnut.