Colorado Photography by Chester Bullock » recycler http://www.chesterbullock.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 In Pursuit of Realistic HDR http://www.chesterbullock.com/2008/12/24/in-pursuit-of-realistic-hdr/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-pursuit-of-realistic-hdr http://www.chesterbullock.com/2008/12/24/in-pursuit-of-realistic-hdr/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:00:23 +0000 Chester http://www.chesterbullock.com/?p=592 HDR of a used tire warehouse
Dan Achatz, a regular in the Flickr PFRE group, put together one of the best HDR tutorials I have seen yet. He goes through his process of compiling the images into a realistic representation of what he saw in person. It is well worth taking some time and watching the video.

After watching it, I followed his steps when making the HDR image shown above. It’s the used tire warehouse at Metal Movers, a Denver, Colorado based auto recycler. I am doing some website consulting for them and needed some photos of the different products and services they offer. A tire warehouse of this size is a lighting challenge due to all the dark colors and shadows, so I thought it would be best to do an HDR to represent it. This particular image is a combintation of 5 exposures, taken at the intervals that Photomatix recommends. I think it came out pretty well, the notable exception being the fluorescent overhead lights. I need to practice with HDR more, but I am really pleased with the results I am starting to get.

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Snapped this photo of a rusting crankshaft in a Denver salvage yard recently.

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