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These are my first try at HDR images. Just using Cs4 for them.
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I honestly can't tell that they are HDR.
have you tried Photomatix yet?
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I like the angles you took these at, but IMO, you really should have went with a much much shallower DOF to lose the backgrounds.
And I also don't see these as HDR's, but I have never really got into HDR at all, so what do I know 
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True HDR is bracketed and you should not be able to see that they are HDR it will just have subtle changes not that artsy look.
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I like the angles you took. Great reflections in that shined up car. And I agree that a shallower depth of field to blur the background would add to the shots.
And I think there is some confusion here. The shots may be HDR, but they don't appear tone mapped. Tone mapping is what usually gives the vibrant, colorful, sometimes fakey looking shots. The HDR is just combining shots to get the full range of light throughout the shot. Photoshop will combine multiple shots into HDR, but it doesn't tone map the photos.
It looks like Bean combined some images so that he could tone down the bright sky, but still have good lighting on the sides of the car in the final product. And he did a good job. We're just used to seeing tone mapped HDRs that look surreal.
Tone Mapping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_mapping
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Thanks guys, and I agree, I should have used a shallower depth of field. I was weary about kneeling too much since my knee was scoped and scraped 2 weeks ago. Basically knelt long enough to make sure it was in focus and then stood up and used my remote for the shots.
And Stiger is correct, I was just doing HDR for more range throughout the blacks and whites.
Personally I don't care too much for the tone mapping surrealistic shots. Just not my thing.
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Stiger, that is what HDR is supposed to do but the tone mapping is where you get that "artsy look" from.
I like the artsy look on some photos but mostly I just prefer to not even know you did an HDR shot (visually). HDR, in most instances, should just be used to enhance the image and bring back what your eyes would see instead of the artsy look though sometimes that is what you are after it just depends.
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Ah, I never got into HDR, so I never tried to understand it, that makes more sense now.
I never really cared alot for the tone mapped stuff (But on some it works).
I guess I never cared for more then just filters and dodging and burning. Anything else to me is photo manipulation, but I can see now that true HDR is still pure, its the tone mapping that gets more into the manipulation.
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Yep, pretty much.
All HDR(i) is supposed to do is bring the image back to the way your eyes saw it. A camera lacks the definition of doing it in one shot while your eyes has a greater range than any camera you might have.
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Am i the one who prefers the tone mapped artsy look more? 
i just like it! lol
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Shriva_al-Destroyer posted:
Am i the one who prefers the tone mapped artsy look more?
i just like it! lol
Do you mean "am I the only one"? If so, no.
I love tone-mapping. Maybe a little too much. It got me into photography, though...
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Shriva_al-Destroyer posted:
Am i the one who prefers the tone mapped artsy look more?
i just like it! lol
You're not alone 
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Shriva_al-Destroyer posted:
Am i the one who prefers the tone mapped artsy look more?
i just like it! lol
Well, no you aren't but it depends on the picture and people are doing it way too much. When I hear of HDRI I think immediately of 3d rendering where it is used to get as close to real light as you can. It does not because the focus so I am seriously hoping they remove the artsy style from the real HDRI and give it is own name.
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GhostOfACPast posted:
Shriva_al-Destroyer posted:
Am i the one who prefers the tone mapped artsy look more?
i just like it! lol
Well, no you aren't but it depends on the picture and people are doing it way too much. When I hear of HDRI I think immediately of 3d rendering where it is used to get as close to real light as you can. It does not become the focus [like the artsy look does] so I am seriously hoping they remove the artsy style from the real HDRI and give it is own name [so as to stop confusing the issue].
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