HDR Before and After Photos + My HDR creation Process(bare bones)

I guess some American things a pretty amazing

These photgraphs were taken with my Olympus E-Volt 410 using the kit lens which is said to be really good. I’m pretty sure it would work better if i kept it cleaner but of well.

I make the HDR by taking 3 sets of bracketed exposures and then picking out from six to nine of them, Nine if i’ve just restarted my computer other wise I get an insufficient memory error even though I have 8 gigs of ram. I use Photomatix 3 to generate then tonemap the HDR. I export it as 16bit Tif file (I also save the original HDR image in a Radiance file because end up learning so much over time that can go back to old saved HDR files and make them look alot better. I can also play with them in other HDR image processing programs. Finally I export open the photo in Lightroom two and either tweak there or export the tif to Photoshop were I often use plugin called Digital Film Tools Digital Film Labs V.2.5(which is now part of Tiffen’s Dfx V2 suite of plugins. I then save a duplicate as a tif. I then import it into into Lightroom 2(64bit) and use my export presets to save it to the Flickr Uploader and to a deviantArt folder (these are full quality jpg’s about 8 mb in size) and to photobucket folder as smaller lower quality jpg’s which I then post on my Journalspace journal.

Posted in EOS, HDR, High Dynamic Range, Nikon, Photography, photograph
Tags: Olympus E-volt 410, Photomatix 3

DSLR Video 2:02 minute = 271.6MB Nikon D90

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  I never use anything but full manual control including manual focus. I never(very rarely) shoot anything except on the lowest ISO setting because it looks better that way. All this Auto stuff is insane. Maybe back in the past when you took a picture blindly then developed it it was important but now it’s pointless. One never even has to look into the viewfinder unless you can’t see your display (I'm currently using the live view enabled Olympus 410). Maybe all this is more important when taking pictures of people.
  

• And another thing the whole F/stop and shutter speed thing shutter speed is ridiculous. It would be much easier if everyone just talked about the radius of the opening and the decimal equivalent of the shutter speed.

• The auto focus, auto exposure, smile tech
  

Red’s “Monstro” will go into Red’s “DSLR KILLER”…as a free upgrade

This was actually posted in the red forums on 8-29 by the companies founder. Given the nature of RED as kinda of a envelope pushing company with integrity it would so much nicer to buy something from them rather than some faceless conglomerate but these promised products have to ship. I hope they have the capacity to meet the demand. I wonder who is developing their sensors and why no other company is producing replaceable sensors.

“The primary advantage to RED is REDCODE. Compressed RAW at over 23.976 fps. This is a core invention of RED that’s full effects have not been seen yet.

The secondary advantage of RED is our sensor program. Some could argue that this is number one.

Mysterium “Monstro” is a sensor program that pushes the envelope past anything on the horizon. It will go into Epic, and another camera aimed squarely at the DSLR market. Epic ships with Mysterium-X and has a free upgrade to Monstro.

Scarlet has been talked about extensively. It is a 3K, 120fps camera with a built-in 8X zoom that starts at 28mm (full frame still 35mm) wide angle. The T-stop will be “at least” as published.

We have a couple of other “tricks up our sleeves”. The important message is that we are just getting start ed.”

Posted on the red forums 8-29 it’s here

"a whole new window of opportunity" DSLR Video Nikon D90

Technology Should Serve The Change Of Ones Reality

It just saw this review of the Nikon D90 which it seems is a good camera. I'm sure the review goes on and on with all the technical details which I will read if I find the time but then it doesn't really matter until all the other announcements from all the other companies come out. I mean a new camera certainly needs to be bought but it's probably not a good Idea just yet. I hope the D90 doesn't remain the only choice for DSLR video. It's a good thing the jerkwater southern town I live in is getting municipal Fiber optic cause this new form of video is going to eat up bandwidth.