Space Shuttle Discovery at the Udvar Haze Center - HDR

Parker219 · Jan 12, 2014

We cant download ( right click and save as ) the originals on flickr, since you have it set so no one can download them. Maybe turn that setting off until this thread dies down? I will try a version, maybe some others will. Plus I want to see what your straight on version looks like. =-)

Josh66 · Jan 12, 2014

Well, you DID ask for it.

Trblmkr said:
So if you could be more specific I would appreciate.

It just doesn't seem to be a good candidate for HRD to me...

Trblmkr · Jan 12, 2014

Parker219 said:
We cant download ( right click and save as ) the originals on flickr, since you have it set so no one can download them. Maybe turn that setting off until this thread dies down? I will try a version, maybe some others will. Plus I want to see what your straight on version looks like. =-)

Okay settings have been changed.

Trblmkr · Jan 12, 2014

Josh66 said:
Well, you DID ask for it.

Trblmkr said:

So if you could be more specific I would appreciate.

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It just doesn't seem to be a good candidate for HRD to me...

Well Josh, I appreciate your feedback, but I disagree. The dark of the shuttle and the hanger with the bright lights on the underside and in the area of the where the landing gear retracts, are "perfect" examples of HDR. IMO.

Parker219 · Jan 12, 2014

I think its a great candidate for HDR.

I could spend a little more time on this to make it perfect, but this is just to give you an idea of what I would do...lets compare it to what you come up with.

Front-View-Shuttle-HDR-Trblmkr by linktheworld219, on Flickr

Parker219 · Jan 12, 2014

OK Do you see how in my version the shuttle is actually WHITE where it should be and BLACK where it should be? Plus it is tonned down a little for a more realistic look.

Your Edit-

Trblmkrs-edit by linktheworld219, on Flickr

My Edit-

Side-Dark_light_normal_fused-16-Final-Trblmkr by linktheworld219, on Flickr

Trblmkr · Jan 12, 2014

Very nice.. I do like the edit on reducing some of the blue in the background. I'll have to play around with my edit to see what I can do for it. However, I like my landing bay better as you can see more detail in there then yours. Thanks for taking the time to show me what you mean

. Great way to learn.

Parker219 · Jan 12, 2014

Yep, when I was finished I noticed the landing bay on yours was better. Now just take a combination of what we both did. :sexywink:

Thanks for sharing these, they are really cool.

Parker219 · Jan 12, 2014

This is my attempt to make this version kinda dark, moody, and badass.

Shuttle-Final-trblmrk by linktheworld219, on Flickr

vipgraphx · Jan 13, 2014

Here is how I would process it.

shuttle by VIPGraphX, on Flickr

Parker219 · Jan 13, 2014

^Definitely softer, not saying that's bad. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and like photos like this soft, sometimes not. I still think the blue and the purple could be taken out of the black of the shuttle though.

vipgraphx · Jan 13, 2014

I really don't like when everything is overly sharp especially in HDR. I think that the blue and purple hue is what you would see if you were there, maybe not. I see the light coming in from windows and I feel that the black panels would reflect that color.

Its hard sometimes to process others HDR files especially if you were not there yourself to remember the colors.

AndyjO · Jan 13, 2014

Cool photos!

Re the special permission - it probably has something to do with rights too. Some tourist sites don't let you work with tripods because they don't want you to use the images for commerical purposes. You can create HDR photos from video footage too. If you've got lightroom try HDRinstant.

I prefer the second photo personally! Great job.

Andy

Trblmkr · Jan 13, 2014

Parker219 said:
Yep, when I was finished I noticed the landing bay on yours was better. Now just take a combination of what we both did.

Thanks for sharing these, they are really cool.

Yeah, I agree combo of both would be the perfect one haha

Trblmkr · Jan 13, 2014

Parker219 said:
This is my attempt to make this version kinda dark, moody, and badass.

Shuttle-Final-trblmrk by linktheworld219, on Flickr

I actually like this one, gives the shuttle a bit more texture from it's re-entry to show you that it's been through hell and back. Very Nice.. I might just have to try and copy it