Trolley passing

[janok]

This picture is from one of my walks down-town Oslo shooting HDR pictures. When I see a large object moving, I try to time it the 30sek version of the bracketing-shot. This time I got the effect I wanted.


Oslo Downtown by janokiese, on Flickr

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[Aragorncito]

Great work congratulations !

 

[Bynx]

Nice job Janok. Worthy of being in a frame.

 

[Tigertail]

AWESOME photo!

 

[vipgraphx]

Interesting photo. Love the HDR work along with the long exposure to get the lighting effect from the trolley. Only thing if I had to nitpick would be the left side floor has a greenish tinge that keeps attracting my eye it looks almost like a glow. If you could take that out then I would say perfection..Love the color in the sky!

 

[KaPOWitsCHRIS]

HDR at night is something I can't seem to do, it ends up looking awful Enlighten me on how you did it please?

 

[Nicostorm]

Wow...what an image!

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Janok one of my favorites of yours to date. Very sharp across. Great composition. Interesting subject. Good processing.

HDR at night is something I can't seem to do, it ends up looking awful Enlighten me on how you did it please?

You need a tripod and to manually adjust your exposures. e.g. photograph the same scene @ 15", 7.5", 3.75" etc... until you capture the full dyanmic range. Longer exposures are necessary due to reduced light.

 

[janok]

HDR at night is something I can't seem to do, it ends up looking awful Enlighten me on how you did it please?

Hi KaPOWitsCHRIS
My workflow is as follows:
-This pictures is taken with 3 exposures +/-2EV, with AV program and a tripod.
-One of the pictures (20sec exposure) created the light-trails
-Pictures is taken in JPEG + RAW, I use RAW the few times I miss on the color balance, (or when I’m not using the HDR function)
-After I have launched Photomatix I drag & drop the three selected exposures from the Bridge into the Photomatix icon on the toolbar. This starts the HDR process
-I use noise reduction on the darkest pictures
-When the image is processed, I don't use any of the presets templates
-I adjust Lightening Adjustments to between-10 and 0 (do not use any presets). With this slider you can reduce the halo by adjusting or increase the HDR-effect
-I put the White Point to about 4% and Black Point to about 0.33%
-After processing is complete I save the processed picture back to default location.
-Then I switch back to the Bridge and the Tone Mapped version ending up next to the three documents that have already been marked out.
-I select the generated image, together with the three originals and choose Tools -> Photoshop -> Load into Photoshop layers from Bridge
Doing this you end up having all 4 images as layers in the CS5 with the Tonemapped version at the top,.
-Remember to align layers if you have not used a tripod, Edit-> Auto align Layers
-Then start with masking the top image using Layer Mask to bring out interesting areas from the original picture into the Tonemapped version - and then Merge Layers. This is the main action to make the images the way I want (I enhance the colors of the 20 sec exposure version to bring out the light-trails)
-Finally, do I use Topaz Denoise to remove noise and Topaz Adjust to increase colors. You can also use Layer Mask if you just want to have the effect in only part of the picture.

This is my setting in Photomatix:

photomatix_settings by janokiese, on Flickr

Otherwise there is a lot of good inspiration on HDR Spotting - Gallery of HDR Photos and Community of HDR Photographers
Hope it was of some help and good luck