i am currently working on the HDR tutorial..many here want that..so after that may be macros.

time for some fun...



this is a normal 100 rupee note..observe where Mahatma Gandhi is looking???is he looking in the direction of ek sou rupay or in that direction...right???



a super macro shot doesnt show any difference in the change in sight..he is still looking in the same direction...right???or is he??



this following image was taken by stacking the raynox 150 and 250..effective magnification was 3.75x..

magic!!! isnt it??


just for further confirmation i asked some foreigners about whether he is actually seeing at us or not..

Flickr: Discussing some help please!!...macro used. in Macro Photos (NO LIMITS)~VOTE NOW

and many agreed upon it.



aryan: one more macro to make u J


anvancy.

FORGET Mahatma Gandhi for a moment! What we have here? Man, O Man! This is absolutely GORGEOUS! Super-Awesome! How much magnification?? Defintely doesn't look like 1:1 to me!! Damn it! Two thumbs up 'bad boy'!

well mahatma gandhi photo was for those non macro lovers.

that was also taken by stacking the 150 and 250 together.300mm 3.75x magnification.taken in my garden.

kencool: here is your HDR..

just tell me whether you are seeing it too dark or not.i wanted to give a haunted feeling to it.if you remember your HDR shot the lighting was on the garden below rather than the structure and the sky.will send you the big file by mail..hope you are happy.

anvancy.

@anvancy: 3.75x magnification? Alright. The details are phenomenal, I am pretty sure the full resolution image would be equally boggling! Wonderful stuff anvancy.

Thanks Anvancy. I liked your rendition. You can go back to the site where I had shown my first work. I have changed it. But I cannot get this dramatic work of the looming clouds that you manage to eke out in such substantial doses. In real life, I never managed to notice those clouds obviously.

Yes, you are right, I had a green on the lawn below. You have taken that off and dramatized the structure with the clouds playing the major role.

Gr8 to see the thread back....

@rajr: I would request you to please dial down the resolution of the first image on your second consecutive post.

glad you liked it..will send you the original.

finally posting my HDR tutorial.

taken straight from wikipedia...

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

High Dynamic Range Imaging was originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff. Wyckoff's detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid 1940s. The process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range, was first reported in 1993[1], and resulted in a mathematical theory of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter that was published in 1995[2]. In 1997 this technique of combining several differently exposed images to produce a single HDR image was presented to the computer graphics community by Paul Debevec.

This method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. With the rising popularity of digital cameras and easy-to-use desktop software, the term HDR is now popularly used[3] to refer to this process. This composite technique is different from (and may be of lesser or greater quality than) the production of an image from a single exposure of a sensor that has a native high dynamic range. Tone mapping is also used to display HDR images on devices with a low native dynamic range, such as a computer screen.

HDR stands for high dynamic range.you must be knowing that a normal photo has a certain level of shadows and highlights.through HDR you add the details of the shadows and highlights +-EV.you will find def of HDR on wiki and such so do check it out.your +-EV may start from a mere 1/3 and go upto say 3.

In HDR unlike normal shots your main factor is not the subject per se but the light that is actually lighting the subject.

.and then you have a total 360degrees of light available for you.that makes 360 shots supported by infinite angles and perspectives at which you can shoot a subject.
say for example..keep an apple in a softbox.place one lamp.start at 0 degrees and end at 360 degrees.and keep on changing the angle.you will find out that from some angles the apple looks better than normal light,in some the apple doesnt look like an apple,in some the apple may look that is impossible to potray.

convert that example into say a car standing in a parking lot and sun rays..falling on it.now you have almost 180degrees of light..considering its a sunny cloudless sky..plus your infinite angles.
so you get how light plays a vital part.

again clouds act as natural diffusers of sun light.as they diffuse they provide smooth lighting to the subject as well as nice atmosphere.combine this with HDR and you get photos that are unique.
example.




if you consider the TATA example look how the light is falling on the indica.part of that light is played by the clouds.they are actually targeting the light to the car while the clouds below is dark.so sort of concentration of light.


but again i am not saying that you cant turn your home theatre photo you took into a HDR.you can ofcourse.or of the window.but an HDR looks beautiful if it has a ray of colors.

now i am coming to the actual HDR shooting.all you need is a camera a tripod and a nice lens.(since you are a DSLR user)preferably a wide angle.since then you can cover more landscape.
shoot using your AEB function of your camera..so find out from your manual and use it.keep the format on RAW.keep your AEB option at +-2EV.this will give you enough details at both the extremes.you can also do a 9 exposure by incrementing your values from 1/3 2/3 + - and so on.first its better you do a 3 exposure.

thats the easy part.now comes the processing part.and many will say use photomatix.i personally use DYNAMIC photo HDR from mediachance.ofcourse its not licenced.you will get it if you know where to search for it.

now the actual tutorial..purposely posting 1024*768 since then the text can be read clearly.

















you can further process it in lightroom or PS as per your needs.

if you need any more help you know where to knock the door.hope you liked my tutorial.





aryan: one more macro..this time no bug etc..water drop.



anvancy.

@anvancy: Please post some more eye-popping macro shots like you posted earlier..

Thanks a lot anvancy for this information . I had that HDR software...ummm photomatic?? or something. but i was disappointed. it will occassionally have some streaks running along the object. But this one looks good and I think I know where to look for it .

a spidey!!nice colorful one.



raynox 150 used.
anvancy