San Francisco, CA

ALoneR · 06-24-07, 04:04 PM

I was in the city the other day with my D50 and decided to take some pics.
they're pretty varied so let me know what you think
this was my first time experimenting with HDR too

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AustinForester · 06-24-07, 04:36 PM

cool pics man, makes me want to go out and take pics of something thats NOT my car! haha

bboarder711 · 06-24-07, 08:09 PM

damn man you have a reall,y good eye for stuff and those fire escapes are INCREDIBLE

ATLfoKuS · 06-26-07, 08:53 PM

yeah man, those pics are awesome, I love the fire escapes.

I'll pay you for those in a series mounted and framed

Blingting · 06-26-07, 08:55 PM

Damn Max, those are fucking awesome. Nice work!

Ken · 06-26-07, 09:12 PM

cool, its the city I live in!

bandoni™ · 06-26-07, 09:35 PM

dude those are awesome i really like the rooftops and the fire escapes.

telafonic · 06-26-07, 10:10 PM

Nice photos.
Yeah, that HDR stuff is kinda different. I like #5 a lot.

AustinForester · 06-26-07, 11:25 PM

can someone elaborate about HDR? im confused

telafonic · 06-27-07, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by AustinLegend

can someone elaborate about HDR? im confused

High Dynamic Range, it's a Photoshop feature. It allows different pictures of the same subject from the same position to be merged together so that everything can be seen.

For example, if you're taking a sunset photo with a building in front of the sun, either you'll expose for the shadow of the building, which will bring detail and light to the building, but will overexpose the sunset, or you'll expose for the light of the sunset, which would make the building a silhouette, and make it very dark.
With HDR, you can expose for both and combine them together. So you can see the building detail and the sunset with both at the proper exposure.

HDR's sometimes look kind of unnatural because of this though. You'll notice in some of his photos, there aren't really any shadows, like #4. I'd be very surprised if that wasn't HDR.

Anyway, I'm sure others know more about it, I've never used it.

ALoneR · 06-27-07, 02:32 AM

good explination telafonic, and yes...3, 4, and 11 are HDR

basically digital cameras don't have the technology to capture a scene the way you see it with your eye because they don't have a high enough dynamic range. a lot of people realize this very quickly when they see something that looks really good, take a picture of it, and then later when they look at the picture, they realize it's not as incredible as it first seemed when they originally saw the scene. that's because you can only properly expose for ONE range, which is either going to be shadows, highlights, or midtones. everything else in the picture isn't going to show up exactly how you saw it. most people expose for the midtones because that'll capture the most out of the scene, however the shadows and highlights are usually lacking.

so then HDR was invented.

you take 3-5 exposures at different shutter speeds to expose each part of the scene correctly. you then open all the different exposures up in photoshop and after a series of steps, you manage to combine all of them into one image. the result is an image that looks just as brilliant as you originally saw it (nothing too dark, nothing too light, all the colors matching, etc etc)...

the problem is, like telafonic said, that it sometimes creates a very unnatural image that is actually MORE brilliant than what you originally saw. some people like it, some people hate it. This was my first time using HDR and ill admit i might have gotten a little carried away with my colors....stay tuned for my pictures from New York...I utilized HDR a lot for that trip as well and this time it's much more subtle.

thanks for the comments everyone!

maracura91 · 07-01-07, 03:14 AM

great picture quality the colors are so vivid, hey max make sure you take the NYC pictures, in HDR that would look great, man i miss home, i havent seen a fire escape in three years.

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ALoneR emayex.com Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 2,172 Car 1: 92 White Coupe iTrader: (1)	San Francisco, CA I was in the city the other day with my D50 and decided to take some pics. they're pretty varied so let me know what you think this was my first time experimenting with HDR too 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12. 13. __________________ Heroes Get Remembered... Legends Never Die learn how to take better pictures of your car: //Part One - Part Two\\

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AustinForester AWDriftin yo moms whip Join Date: May 2006 Location: Austin tx Posts: 11,978 Car 1: 2005 Subaru Forester 2.5 XT Turbo! iTrader: (15)	cool pics man, makes me want to go out and take pics of something thats NOT my car! haha __________________ Dirty Legends meet pics Wanna See Legend meet history?CLICK HERE

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ATLfoKuS Conflicted Felon Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,858 Car 1: kA8 iTrader: (10)	yeah man, those pics are awesome, I love the fire escapes. I'll pay you for those in a series mounted and framed

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AustinForester AWDriftin yo moms whip Join Date: May 2006 Location: Austin tx Posts: 11,978 Car 1: 2005 Subaru Forester 2.5 XT Turbo! iTrader: (15)	can someone elaborate about HDR? im confused __________________ Dirty Legends meet pics Wanna See Legend meet history?CLICK HERE

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ALoneR emayex.com Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 2,172 Car 1: 92 White Coupe iTrader: (1)	good explination telafonic, and yes...3, 4, and 11 are HDR basically digital cameras don't have the technology to capture a scene the way you see it with your eye because they don't have a high enough dynamic range. a lot of people realize this very quickly when they see something that looks really good, take a picture of it, and then later when they look at the picture, they realize it's not as incredible as it first seemed when they originally saw the scene. that's because you can only properly expose for ONE range, which is either going to be shadows, highlights, or midtones. everything else in the picture isn't going to show up exactly how you saw it. most people expose for the midtones because that'll capture the most out of the scene, however the shadows and highlights are usually lacking. so then HDR was invented. you take 3-5 exposures at different shutter speeds to expose each part of the scene correctly. you then open all the different exposures up in photoshop and after a series of steps, you manage to combine all of them into one image. the result is an image that looks just as brilliant as you originally saw it (nothing too dark, nothing too light, all the colors matching, etc etc)... the problem is, like telafonic said, that it sometimes creates a very unnatural image that is actually MORE brilliant than what you originally saw. some people like it, some people hate it. This was my first time using HDR and ill admit i might have gotten a little carried away with my colors....stay tuned for my pictures from New York...I utilized HDR a lot for that trip as well and this time it's much more subtle. thanks for the comments everyone! __________________ Heroes Get Remembered... Legends Never Die learn how to take better pictures of your car: //Part One - Part Two\\

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