Come into my HDR bedroom

[goodoneian]

oh boy

+1

 

[cosmoepic]

here we go again..................

cant everyone just relax a little bit?

 

[TheSon]

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Waaaaay T.M.I.
(too much information)

As for the OP... the original image needs a lot of tweakings to change the white balance and bracketing. Otherwise it looks pretty good.

Remember to try a few different settings in HDR processing and see which one you like the best.

 

[manaheim]

<cough> wow.

Anyway...

Hey mitsugirl... (own a mistubishi?) Neat idea, but the image didn't look very HDR to me. How many exposures did you take and how did you bracket them? (what were the settings for each)

 

[Jaszek]

So if you fixed the white balance and straighten it the image would be great. I don't really like HDR's indoors especially when you have enough light. but whatever floats your boat works. If you want some rpactice go out when there are a few clouds in the sky and you see something nice, set up your tripod and shoot away.

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As for the guys arguing I have something for you:

got it from [LINK REMOVED] just for referance

 

[mitsugirly]

Um wow...went away for a couple of hours and came back to this? :crazy:

I'm brand new, don't even realize what the camera settings are or how to really work my camera yet. I'm stuck in the house because of the weather, so I figured I'd give it a shot at how I thought this worked.

The tripod was a little off I guess, I was shooting from across the room in a hallway leading to the closet and bath so I think that one of the legs was on the carpet where it meets the wall baseboard which caused it to be a little higher. I know before I started out, it was level (when I had it set up in the middle of the room).

I'm not sure what or how the bracketing thing works. I took 10 pictures total. From 10 sec to 1/500th sec is what the exposure said. I don't know what all the settings are or mean so I was just going really low and working my way up on the settings. Then I went into photomatix and combined them all after playing around with everything in there. Went into ps and sharpened it up a little.

If someone could point me to some type of tutorial with step by step instructions, I might be able to do this right.

I really don't know what "white balance" is or what it does. I know where to find it on my camera. But anything after that...I have no clue. I thought the walls on the side look kinda yellowish and should be white...does that have anything to do with it?

manaheim-How'd you guess? Actually I've owned 24 in the last 7 years. You could kinda say I "collect" them. I'm a race car girl. :heart:

 

[Jaszek]

you should try doing 3 to five exposures. That would be enough to capture the whole dynamic range. as for white balance here you go: Understanding White Balance . I was going to post this link first but don't want to be evil today: Let me google that for you lol

 

[Ls3D]

Um wow...went away for a couple of hours and came back to this? :crazy:

Crazy ehh... I usually bracket exposures by stops, a feature of some cameras, then combine in photmatix & or photoshop. I suppose your method should work too.

White balance, in short our eyes correct for this, the camera however is very sensitive and captures the various color temperatures. Setting white balance can involve metering and setting a custom value, or simply choosing tungsten, or florescent presets. This 'temperature' can be adjusted in camera raw for example.

My edit was only to show tilt, parallax & barrel correction, while shifting the color temperature and possibly restoring the exposure as a matter of interest.

-Shea

 

[mitsugirly]

you should try doing 3 to five exposures.

The reason that I did so many was because I was reading another forum and the guy ask for help doing it and provided the pictures...there was about 10 on there, if not more. So I figured the more you have, the better it might turn out?? Guess not. I'll try 5 next time.

I was going to post this link first but don't want to be evil today: Let me google that for you lol

Holy crap, how'd you do that? When the cursor started moving and I seen typing...I was like wtf?
Trust me I google all day long, but for some reason I never seem to come up with the right thing to type in to start with and get crappy sites.

White balance, in short our eyes correct for this, the camera however is very sensitive and captures the various color temperatures. Setting white balance can involve metering and setting a custom value, or simply choosing tungsten, or florescent presets. This 'temperature' can be adjusted in camera raw for example.

My edit was only to show tilt, parallax & barrel correction, while shifting the color temperature and possibly restoring the exposure as a matter of interest.
-Shea

Yea, I don't understand the metering thing. I've tried shooting in tungsten (was told to do that for night shots before). Maybe I'll attempt that tomorrow.

You bringing up camera raw reminds me of a question I had earlier, but forgot to ask. When I shot the pictures, I shot in RAW/JPEG...I used the jpeg images on the photmatix. Should I have been using the RAW? I wasn't really sure.

You totally lost me on the last statement-tilt, parallax, barrel shifting color temp and so on. {Where's the big question mark smiley when you need him?}

 

[Ls3D]

Yeah RAW would probably help your HDR experiments, since you are tone mapping in 48 bit color space. 3 (rg&b) X 16 bits,.. feeding 3 X 8 bits is a cheat IMO. Raw may actually be 14 bits but will open in ACR at an effective 16 bit rez.

Part two: basically I squared up your image.

Sorry for all the geek speak! Be sure to bracket and shoot a few color temps, or better yet meter a custom WB setting.

-Shea

 

[TheUndisputed]

The reason that I did so many was because I was reading another forum and the guy ask for help doing it and provided the pictures...there was about 10 on there, if not more. So I figured the more you have, the better it might turn out?? Guess not. I'll try 5 next time.



Holy crap, how'd you do that? When the cursor started moving and I seen typing...I was like wtf?
Trust me I google all day long, but for some reason I never seem to come up with the right thing to type in to start with and get crappy sites.



Yea, I don't understand the metering thing. I've tried shooting in tungsten (was told to do that for night shots before). Maybe I'll attempt that tomorrow.

You bringing up camera raw reminds me of a question I had earlier, but forgot to ask. When I shot the pictures, I shot in RAW/JPEG...I used the jpeg images on the photmatix. Should I have been using the RAW? I wasn't really sure.

You totally lost me on the last statement-tilt, parallax, barrel shifting color temp and so on. {Where's the big question mark smiley when you need him?}

Tungsten is the correct setting, try cooling the picture some in your white balance menu. Go to Tungsten setting (indoor), and when the color graph comes up, set it to B6/M0, or B6/M2. That is what I shoot with when I am in tungsten filament lighting (Incandescent bulbs for those of you that don't know), and it has perfect white balance. You can even adjust these values in Photoshop or LightRoom after the photo has been taken and is being processed.

 

[Onion]

:rofl: Did you just call me condescending, and THEN call me an immature jackass? You are like the pot calling the kettle black.

You and your butt buddy fiveoboy need to get together and hug each other for a while. It's apparent your mothers didn't do it enough for you when you were younger.

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And for the record, I don't dislike any of you. You can say anything you want to me and it isn't going to hurt my feelings. You don't determine my disposition in life, and you don't write my paycheck. Those are the only two people who's opinion matters to me. God, and my employer. I have built a very successful lifestyle on this principle. So, don't expect me to change it because you all get your feelings hurt or you think what I say is too blunt.

That isn't me being mean. It's being 100% truthful. Not holding anything back. Life is too short to live holding things back.

Great, another gutless know-it-all with raging chemical imbalances and obvious "issues." Certainly worth ignoring in the future.

Life is too short to put with jerks such as yourself. Do us all a favor and go away.

I notice your eyes aren't shown in your oversized tagline image, are you crying?


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[manaheim]

Perception is everything...

<chuckle>

 

[mitsugirly]

I can not find the setting that adjust white balance on PS.

I probably should have shot this during the day for a better effect. The 2 lights I have beside the bed have dark brown lampshades with a high watt bulb in them. So, at night when you turn them on it's very dim and turns the walls a yellowish brown color (very romantic :heart: and looks very cool). I think that's part of the problem with the coloring as well. I'm actually seeing this color in real life except for during the day when the 2 walls are actually white.

LS3D-how do you shoot color temps? I think this is what I was talking about when I was trying to find this video yesterday. http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/...llery/154010-need-help-finding-video-hdr.html The guy was shooting at the ground and the sky and talked about getting settings from it. But I don't know where he was getting his settings or what it was he was looking at.

 

[manaheim]

Mitsu... question if I may? What setting do you have your camera on? Auto? Program? Manual? Other?