Real vs Pseudo HDR: Editing tips

[handsomelok]

it is called Single Raw HDR Photoshop ... search it I can post a link in a comment box for some reasons

[handsomelok]

@handsomelok I meant I couldn't

[gemmek3]

doubleclick the slider to set it to default (zero), lots faster then moving them manualy ;-)

[MichaelGteam]

Nicely done. Love your channel. I was thinking if you played a little more with the exposure meter change amount, instead of picking the arbitrary number 1.5, could you pull out a bit more detail from the sky. Just my thoughts. Ciao

[lighto999]

Love the sky in the full HDR one, love the foreground in the Pseudo HDR one. mayb try stitching?

[maimepunha]

what is the software you use to make Pseudo HDR. It looked very easy and less time consuming.

[mjohn196]

hey Dom. What did you use to make your intro?

[thisisnik]

I edited a boring ass training video with the same music as your intro.. I like your videos but I feel a weird vomit feeling in my stomach when watch the beginnings

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[peterchinnock]

When it asks you to confirm the exposures when you first opened them in PMatix, didn't you process them as -1.5 0 +1.5? Does it just round it up to 2?

[DhasseLOL]

You should make a darker image if you want to do psuedo. You can bring mroe details from the shadows than from the highlights.

[alanemail11]

@Dombowerphoto You should really learn more about the difference between exposure and brightness. Exposure will adjust the midrange more. Brightness will adjust the entire exposure evenly. The difference is a bit like vibrance vs saturation. If you had of made 3 virtual copies with different brightness levels instead of exposure levels, you may have got the sky in the pseudo HDR looking like the real HDR. Try it.

[Dombowerphoto]

@alanemail11 wrong go double check what you just wrote.... and maybe something like lightroom for dummies

[Dombowerphoto]

@alanemail11 check it when you said brightness will change the exposure..... no that would be the exposure adjustment slide.

[alanemail11]

@Dombowerphoto Ok, how would you explain the difference between exposure and brightness? They have similar effects but use different algorithms. Exposure uses a similar algorithm to setting the white point in PS so clips easier. Brightness adjusts luminance. A great video explanation is Lightroom Exposure Vs Brightness by @cwaynefox PS. don't judge a book by its cover

[Dombowerphoto]

@alanemail11 exactly how you said it but swap brightness and exposure. Cwaynefox explains it perfectly. Changing the EXPOSURE SLIDER changes the image as if you changed the EXPOSURE in camera. Changing the brightness maintains detail in the brights and darks, the luminance. It lets the blacks and whites stay black and white but the other tones to be adjusted. TO put i super simply Exposure slider changes exposure, brigness changes the luminance of the whole image and does its best

[Dombowerphoto]

@alanemail11 to preserve the black and white point. Obviously this is not evenly.

annoyingly there is a difference between lightroom and photoshop in terms of how they calculate exposure and brightness settings, so here we are just talking about lightroom

[IndigoEyePhotography]

HDR vs. exposure fusion would be a nice follow up. I think the results of the latter look less cartoonish than the former.

[kid0M]

yeah I was wondering about that too. How do you like your 5d compared to your D700. Is it winning your heart Mr. Dom? lol

[1SNTCC]

go to stuckincustom for better information about hdr photography.

[Rapidpanda1st]

Dom, was the 'Real HDR' image created with in-camera firmware? As in, did your camera take 3 images and combine them in-camera to create one HDR image; or was it done with bracketing and you merged them in post production?

[ginostamaria]

Dom looks like you like you 5d more than your d700..?

[peluche2]

Nice work thank you  for your help

[kedishi]

Nice... I like the way you do your HDR photos... A lot of the HDR photos I've seen people do look like rancid vomit.

[sszhengda]

Dom,you can export photo directly to the Photomax actually...

[momoz88]

Luminance HDR is an open source software on which you can use the raw file to create an HDR.

[Dombowerphoto]

@momoz88 eek just tried it out. pretty happy i paid and got photomatix.

[handsomelok]

Do you know Photoshop has a function call single RAW HDR, I think it can achieve the same result...

[Dombowerphoto]

@handsomelok can you send me a link to any video of that for me to see, however i dont use photoshop so not sure about that

[Adiobe]

If you use Photoshop, you don't need to export, you can just use your raws

[Dombowerphoto]

@Adiobe you got any links for me to see that.

[Adiobe]

@Dombowerphoto I don't have an actual link, but you just have to go to File-automate-Merge to HDR pro

[Dombowerphoto]

@Adiobe all from one raw file?

[Adiobe]

@Dombowerphoto If you do it the same way you did it. You just don't have to convert it to a TIFF file. Not 100% sure though...

[llleolllolll]

@Dombowerphoto photoshop has a hdr function where you can use the raws, thats it ;)

[thelegoplokoon]

Very usefull but please turn your desktop icons off or order them!

[STEPPHAN7]

U S E F U L ! ! :)))

[FirebrandNIRE]

always learning something new :-)

[xmed0]

thanks !!

[TIRanald]

Great video Dom! Really useful - thanks.