Vegas Baby!!

[janok]

I brought my tripod on my trip to Las Vegas. There are some amazing photo-opportunities in this city.
Backyard in Las Vegas

Backyard in Las Vegas by janokiese, on Flickr
The Strip - Las Vegas

The Strip - Las Vegas by janokiese, on Flickr
Hotel skyline

Hotel skyline by janokiese, on Flickr
My next ride

My next ride by janokiese, on Flickr

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[nos33]

those are sweet. I am planning on going out there in October. Have you seen their sign graveyard? I think it is called the Boneyard. And searching i have yet to see someone go in there and take HDR's

 

[janok]

Tnx for the feedback. I have not been there - but it seems like an ideal place to do some HDR shooting
boneyard las vegas - Google Search

 

[annie57]

Wow, what great shots! I liked all of them.

 

[mistermonday]

Wonderful shots and very well processed. Which HDR s/w did you use on these?
Tks & regards, Murray

 

[janok]

Thank you for the feedback. These are photos are taken this 3 shots +/-2EV, processed in Photomatix and pos-processed in CS5 with Toppaz.

 

[Photogaz]

Love the last two, well done!

 

[CaboWabo]

I really like the pic of the Rolls just pure class they all well done

 

[Omofo]

Great job!

 

[paul85224]

VERY NICE!!!!

 

[Bynx]

3 great shots and processing, there must be more!!!

 

[cgipson1]

Very nice.... makes me want to plan a trip back to Vegas!

 

[that1guy]

these are some of the better HDR photos I've seen!

any tips you can share? i been HDRing for about a year now

High Dynamic Ranges! | Facebook

you can see when i first started.. i still like to learn better tips

 

[Joshb619]

Awesome!

 

[janok]

Hi that1guy
Thanks for the nice feedback. I am using Photomatix,Topaz Adjust and CS5. I am mostly self-taught, and have been doing photography for a year.
The only course I have taken is a webinar with Tray Ratcliff (Stuck In Customs HDR Photography). Otherwise, I learned my Photomatix from youtube. My workflow is as follows:
-All pictures are taken with 3 exposures +/-2EV, with AV program.
-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 and automatic anti ghosting if needed
-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
-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.

Otherwise there is a lot of good inspiration on HDR Spotting - Gallery of HDR Photos and Community of HDR Photographers and a standard Photomatix tutorial on

Hope it was of some help and good luck