HDR is Masai Mara

HDR is Masai Mara
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This is a pretty nondescript pic that I processed through Photomatix Pro, to see what it did as an HDR application.

I used just the single image ... not the 3+ images that you usually combine to get interesting HDR type effects (for those of you who don't know anything about HDR, check out: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/) ... but the finished result astonished me.

The image just seems to be 3D ... the tree has a strange 3D feel to it ... and the light on the zebras and wildebeest makes them seem to stand out. The clouds, of course, are way overblown ...

But I kinda like this pic. Kinda.

19h27 Thursday
16, April
2009
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  1. Morolong
    Well done Daz

    I wish I was there!!

    Salut
  2. lebogang nkoane
    true -- that 3d feel is weird.

    i have question about hdr --- if its suppose to mimic what the eye can see --- why does it create what it does not?

    but then again, why would you want want to see the world for what it is.

    *retreats into more 2¢ philosphies
  3. Daz
    Smile. There is HDR and there is HDR.

    What I have done is use an HDR tool. That doesn't mean that I have done it propoerly at all.

    Trey Ratcliff maintains ~ "The best tip [I can give photographers] is perhaps the one that I hit hard in my tutorial: Although existing HDR algorithms are good and getting better, they must be re-mixed with an original RAW to ensure that proper balance is returned to the scene."

    I'm not *really* doing HDR yet, as I don't use Photoshop, and so don't re-mix Photomax output, with an original RAW image to get the 'proper balance' ...

    But HDR done right .... eish.

    It's the world as it is ... even if we can't see it.
  4. Makhaya
    unreal. wow. love it.
  5. lebogang nkoane
    ;-) @ "there is HDR and there is HDR" --- reminds of that "there is a Braai, and there is a Braai".

    *point, understood, though.
  6. æ
    phenomenal!
  7. Stefanie Jason
    thats dope!
  8. Max Mogale
    Whoa. Talk about an education. Yo Daz (and LD), feel free to spit some of that knowledge down my way anytime. I am totally lost bout what you guys are saying but it sounds interesting. Preach on preacher
  9. Khumbelo
    wow!
  10. rangoato hlasane
    stunning work! 2nd sauve.
  11. NguJaz
    circle of life -- ala Rafiki
  12. Android Veliskas
    I kinda like this pic tooo...wow Daz!
  13. Di1
    i love this shot, esp the sky! great job on the editting!
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