Fighter HDR - Facts and how to do

[boele]

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If you just want to change one color only, for example the orange part in Dino van Doorn's picture, go to Lightroom, Develop, HSL, Luminance.

Here you can select any color you like and alter it.

Regards, René.

P.S. Thanks for the tutorial Dino.

[Triple Nickel]

I was foolin' around with some HDR photos today.

The fighter actually is not there anymore , but that's not relevant.

This is a shelter at former Hahn Air Base. I took the foto with -1,5, 0, +1,5 spacing. The did some HDR work with photomatix pro.

This is the result:
1. HDR photo


2.This is the orignal picture, edited (no HDR involved) in photoshop CS4.


3. And the picture straight out of the camera, no editing involved. Only resizing.


Wich one do you (as viewer) prefer???

Greetz, Ron

[Nick267]

nr.1 for sure!

Great job.

[Herbertvh]

The second. That shot still looks natural to me, but it doesn't have the dark shadows of the original.

[Joost van Doorn]

nr.1 for sure!

Great job.

+1

[Flygvapnet_Viggen]

Yep, the first one looks better imo. Especially the air makes it more comfortable to look at. Though, there is a lot more noise in that HDR image...
I tried some "Fighter HDRs" myself these days, but often I also end up with way too much noise. Already in Photomatix so that I dont even process it...
I have been working with HDR landscape photos for some time now and there the noise doesnt become that obvious as soon as with "figther hdr" pics. For my landscapes I make 5 different exposures at the moment itself already so I end up mixing 5 RAW shots in Photomatix. Is it the problem of using JPEG files to create these complex HDR images that makes noise to appear more clearly?

I can show two of my HDRs I tried today, though not real fighters but anyways...
I included the pics as they would appear to me when just editing as 1 photo too, so you can see the difference.
For the HDRs I processed the raw file and made two extra images of it, from -1 EV and +1EV. Than combined the three in Photomatix Pro and back to PS for the final touch.

#A1 -HDR


#A2 - normally processed



#B1 - HDR


#B2 - normally processed



What do you think??!!
Personally, in the Iceland Air HDR pic, something is a bit strange.... haha. Though the shadows come out quite nice here.


Hälsningar,
Corné Uittenbogaard

[Andras]

@Ron, No. 1 i like very much, HDR feel is present
@Corne, Your flowers shot is not a suiteable picture or it did not turn out that great. The 757 Iceland air looks better but the effect is not very big. Still its a cool shot..