DonCooksey
01-12-2009, 09:12 PM
Fishing was slow today, but I manged to catch a few phots and a couple of fish. Here are three pics from the trip. I had the camera capture a RAW and JPG image for each. I then generated five different exposures from the single RAW images (+2, +1, 0, -1, -2) and processed them to produce an HDR image in Photomatix. I'll show the camera-generated JPG first and then the HDR was generated from the RAW image.
JPG the camera generated:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000101w.jpg
HDR generated from single RAW image:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000101e_a_d_b_w.jpg
JPG of Yuba junk:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000105cw.jpg
HDR of Yuba junk:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000105e_d_c_b_aw.jpg
JPG of best fish of the day:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000097cw.jpg
HDR of best fish of the day:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000097e_d_c_b_aw.jpg
Well, I can't say I'm too ecstatic over the results. The HDRs were generated quickly just now using default settings in Photomatix, so I guess it probably takes a little more work to get better results. I do like the better look of the sky in the HDR images, especially in the Yuba junk photo (probably a priceless piece of antique mining equipment). Some things formerly in shadows in the JPG images also come out better. But my fish looks poopy in the HDR image. I probably could have done some work to brighten up the fish during the tone mapping after the HDR processing; I just used the default Details Enhancer in Photomatix. Any suggestions from Ansel?
JPG the camera generated:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000101w.jpg
HDR generated from single RAW image:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000101e_a_d_b_w.jpg
JPG of Yuba junk:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000105cw.jpg
HDR of Yuba junk:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000105e_d_c_b_aw.jpg
JPG of best fish of the day:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000097cw.jpg
HDR of best fish of the day:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/DonCooksey/P1000097e_d_c_b_aw.jpg
Well, I can't say I'm too ecstatic over the results. The HDRs were generated quickly just now using default settings in Photomatix, so I guess it probably takes a little more work to get better results. I do like the better look of the sky in the HDR images, especially in the Yuba junk photo (probably a priceless piece of antique mining equipment). Some things formerly in shadows in the JPG images also come out better. But my fish looks poopy in the HDR image. I probably could have done some work to brighten up the fish during the tone mapping after the HDR processing; I just used the default Details Enhancer in Photomatix. Any suggestions from Ansel?