[ivox3]

Just a little test render

[EONA]

ivox3
Just a little test render !

You have got BALLS!

[ivox3]

I got spheres man, ...... spheres !

[JDHill]

...there's something wrong with your material...look what happened when I refreshed the preview:



... ...

[sandykoufax]

hehehe, JD. you need increase the preview quality and bounce options.

[ivox3]

I blame the coders.

[bugyboo]

nice photo ivox. i guess nd value is too high...

[kirkt]

Here is a LDR image of an HDR panorama, tone-mapped with the photographic tone mapping operator from Reinhard, et al., using the default vaules. Some slight post in Lab color space and slight sharpening. The HDR panorama was constructed in Photosphere.



Valley Forge National Park, Memorial Day, 2006.

The original (5000 px wide) image is here:

http://kirkt.smugmug.com/gallery/1473939/1/72305493

Here is a LDR image of a HDR set of exposures, again tone mapped using the same operator, of a stature in the chapel in the upper left corner of the panorama - no post-processing:



It could use a little curves and sharpening.

Original is here:
http://kirkt.smugmug.com/gallery/1514810/1/72713682

For comparison, here is the closest single LDR exposure for the statue, used to construct the HDR image:


Note all of the high and low clipping, leading one to begin to appreciate the usefulness of HDR image sequences in providing more data to generate LDR exposures under inherently high dynamic range shooting conditions.

[ivox3]

thx bugy.

[Maximus3D]

Larsson: Good looking cathedral, especially the statues infront of it you took a pic of.

Daros: Sure you wanna model that come on now, it'd look great! but it's a ton of work to do..

Chris: Hehe you got some big shiny balls man ..and so many of them too! btw, nice shot with the dof.

bugyboo: that's funny!

Kirk: there's some pretty big differences there between the LDR and the HDR photos. How did you photograph like that ? different exposures and then assembled them together into one ?

Good work everybody! keep them kickass photographs coming

/ Max

[ludenhud]

Some days ago I and my German friend took the buss into city and went to see the great Aquarium in Sydney.
I've never been up for such challenge.
End never have I ended up with so many useless photos due to the reflections of the aquarium glass and because of the lack of light in those dim and spooky corridors of the museum.

The main fish was a gigantic calm beast about 1.5 meters long
But can you find the other 7?


There something about this image that makes me feel free and very satisfied with life :)
The glare and motion blur together with the orange touch makes it for me



What do you guys think?

[Mihai]

Marine life is always a great subject

Perhaps a polarizer filter will help you to get rid of unwanted reflections in those cases. It can also make most landscape images look better, especially trees and foliage, and ofcourse the sky.

[ludenhud]

Marine life is always a great subject

Perhaps a polarizer filter will help you to get rid of unwanted reflections in those cases. It can also make most landscape images look better, especially trees and foliage, and ofcourse the sky.

Oh yes, I've seen some really good with and without images using a circular polar filter but I have no clue how to attach it to my camera

[kirkt]

@Max - Yes the HDR image is assembled from a sequence of LDR exposures - in this case typically with a constant f-stop (aperture) for uniform DoF, and a sequence of shutter speeds (eg, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500) - that is, spaced in 1EV increments.

I use Photosphere (Mac only) to assemble the LDRs into a HDR image and then I use various tone-mapping operators to produce the LDR. Then some post in PS. Photosphere is a great tool becuase it permits assembly of the HDRs (automatically, using the EXIF data in each LDR in the sequence) and then has panorama stitching built into the app so you can stitch HDRs together. There may be other apps that permit HDR stitching, but I use Photosphere and it does a nice job.

Another interesting app, as a PS plug-in is Flexify from Flaming Pear. This is a pretty cool plug-in that permits unwrapping and modification of various projections for images (i.e., going from mirror ball to lat-long, etc.).

http://www.flamingpear.com/flexify.html

great thread! thanks for sharing.

kirk

[EONA]

Just been up to show my father, the small village of Gourdon in the mountains near Nice.