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Topic: Off Topic / How is "Photo of the day" selected?

I’m just curious how, what criteria, is used to select the “Photo of the day”?

Topic: Software / Photomatix Pro vs. Nik's HDR Efex Pro

I use (and own) also both: Photomatix and HDR efex Pro. I agree with almark: the U-Point-Technologie is great. With HDR efex Pro you can even make a stunning HDR with just one Picture in seconds. The results are amazing! But: i love to work with both! ;-)

Topic: HDR Photoediting and Techniques / Olmeda de la Cuesta. La casa de los Tuberculosos (España)

Olmeda de la Cuesta. La casa de los Tuberculosos (España)

Viajando sin un rumbo fijo como en muchas ocasiones, fuimos a parar a un pueblo junto a la carretera, de esos que pasas a la velocidad que te permite el Código de la Circulación… es decir, a toda mecha.
Sin embargo es ver cuatro ladrillos tirados en medio de cualquier sitio para que frene en seco y baje a investigar que cosas ocultas esconden los mismos.

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El pueblo de tal casualidad se llama Olmeda de la Cuesta. Si no te fijas nunca imagino que llegara a llamar tu atención, pero mereció la pena esta paradita en ruta.
Olmeda de la Cuesta es un pequeño municipio de la provincia de Cuenca, situado a 55 kilómetros de la capital provincial y a 160 kilómetros de Madrid. Este pequeño pueblo es parecido a muchos otros que han visto languidecer poco a poco su población. En la actualidad están censados en Olmeda de la Cuesta 32 vecinos, 18 mujeres y 14 hombres, pero realmente solo viven en la localidad de forma constante unas 15 personas.
Pero Olmeda de la Cuesta cuenta con otro problema además de la escasa población, y es que además, Olmeda de la Cuesta es el pueblo más envejecido de España, donde más del 80% de sus habitantes ya han sobrepasado los 65 años de edad, en un pueblo que no ha celebrado una boda ni un bautizo en 40 años

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Desde el punto de vista cultural nada que mencionar relevante, excepto que cuando salíamos de la casa una anciana además de preguntar que se nos había perdido en ese lugar nos comento que allí en esa casa abandonada había vivido una familia de los cuales la gran mayoría habían fallecido por tuberculosis, me sorprendió tal coincidencia pero si así lo contó la abuela, así lo cuento yo.

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Colchones de lana apartados de la vida, como los que en ellos engendraron vida en otros tiempos.
Como a todos, también le llego el momento al coche de carreras…su piloto, aquel ingenuo niño cerro sus puertas para siempre.

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Quizás tantas fueron las prisas el día de la marcha definitiva que abandonamos el producto del sudor de su frente.

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Espero que os guste. Gracias
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Topic: HDR Photoediting and Techniques / HDR with Flash

Sounds like a pain in the butt. Glad it works well. My camera will not let me use flash and bracketing. I would have to do a manual change. I don’t always have a tripod with me. I actually just broke mine and ended up with a nice laceration trying to put leg back in. I took it all over the place and it just fell apart, first a screw or two and then legs started falling out when I opened it. Yikes. I am looking on line if you have any suggestions of a new one. Best Buy was not impressive.

I recently talked with someone who doesn’t like bracketing at all he shared how to change your speed by lighting guesstimation and that would result as better detail. I tried it and find my photos are too light and don’t process well. His are awesome so he must really have it down. Have you tried that method?

Topic: Software / Lightroom

I use “Lightroom 3.2 64 bit” very successful. Great advantage is the synchronization of images. I trim, edit an image and transfer the setting to another. There is also a usefull “Photomatix Pro plugin”.

Topic: Off Topic / A Manifesto for my friends on HDRCreme

Mr. Consoli,

My apologies for being so late to the game on my comments to your “manifesto” however, I do believe your comments are worthy of further discussion.

“HDR is the most important development in photography since the discipline was invented.” While increasing the dynamic range of an image is important, I would like to know your reasoning to why it supersedes, such notable inventions as Kodachrome, cellulose acetate (safety film) base, dye transfer, etc.

“It is not an idea about color. Color is lovely and because of that people always assume that color is more important in image-making (painting or photography) than it really is.” Is this really a true statement? From its inception, photography was a monochromatic endeavor. The medium was monochromatic for nearly 80 years before the first viable color process (Autochrome) was invented. It was nearly 110 when Kodachrome was introduced. Given that black and white imagining is still being practiced and digital solutions are continually being developed to create black and white images from RGB images it’s not that “…color is more important in image-making”.

“All painting and photography is a meditation about brightness.” Is it brightness or dynamic range you are addressing here? I posit that a better way of describing this is Chiaroscuro – the tonal contrasts that exist in many images that help create depth and luminosity in an image (think Ansel Adams “Moonrise over Hernandez New Mexico”). The range of tonal contrast and the where those relationships exist next to each other in the image is more important than brightness.

“Tone-mapping techniques have led to the potential rejuvenation of every photograph ever taken as long as we have it in its original form (RAW file, TIF file, photo negative, etc).” There is more to an image than dynamic range and the ability to expand that dynamic range. A poorly composed image will still be a poorly composed with an expanded dynamic range.

” Stop the flames. Flames will not help us. There is nothing sillier than grown men (and we are mostly men) arguing about the appearance of a picture. We can learn from everyone.” While I agree that poorly worded attacks against a photograph are inappropriate, the need for open honest critique is required if any genre is to grow and its practitioners improve.

Topic: Software / Lightroom

Tried the trail version over the weekend. Seems to Works great & a great editing tool. Lots of nice presets, but kind of awkward to import a photo. Using Mac.

Topic: HDR Photoediting and Techniques / bracketed shots on Nikon D90

In bright enough light, such as sunny outdoors, you can hand-hold the camera and get off 3 quick exposures in 1 – 1.5 seconds or less. For longer exposures I find it easiest to use a cable release rather than the self-timer. You can still use burst mode if you like.

Topic: HDR Photoediting and Techniques / HDR with Flash

Are some of you either expermenting or regularly using flash while shooting your bracketed exposures? It’s a technique sometimes used in interior real estate photography. I’ve done a few tests using bounce flash on only one of the exposures, bounce flash on all 3 exposures and no flash. From the limited shooting I’ve done,I’d say that flash on all exposures seems to work best. It helps to eliminate noise on dark objects and in shadow areas and generally brings out more detail than either of the other two methods.

Topic: Software / Lightroom

Any members out there using ‘Lightroom’. If yes, what version are you using & what are your comments on the software.

I have used Lightroom for a few years now, my current version is 3.5. Although I have just downloaded the Beta version ‘Lightroom 4’. Jury is still out on this at present.

There are lots of links to other software direct from ‘Lightroom’ i.e Photomatix Pro, Photoshop & Topaz adjust.

So HDRcreme members, what are your thoughts……….

Topic: Charts and Awards / No easy 10 ratings from me

I agree completely, Some members throw their Dummy out of the pram & start getting personal if you say anything negative about a photo. I say what i think as you do rtorcato. Sending messages & writing personal comments on my photo’s. If they don’t like the opinion then stop posting…….

Topic: Off Topic / Negative voting and no comments...

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Topic: Off Topic / Negative voting and no comments...

thanks

Topic: Charts and Awards / No easy 10 ratings from me

I mean everyone is scared to rate lower than 9.

Topic: Charts and Awards / No easy 10 ratings from me

The image will have to be perfect in every way. Not just HDR processing.

I’m gonna rate it as I see it. If the image is a 7 or lower I will rate it as such. Seems to be too many 10s getting thrown at friend’s posts on this site and too many people to rate lower than a 9.

Topic: Off Topic / changing user name

There is no way you can do by yourself. Send me a private message and I can do this for you.

Topic: Off Topic / changing user name

is there a way to change your user name? I do not see an option for this.

Topic: Software / Machinery 2 - HDR Software

Just completed a short review of Machinery 2. You can read about it on my blog at http://mikehardisty.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/ma…. Better still download a trial copy from http://www.machineryhdr.com/. Check out the gallery whilst you are, I think you’ll like what you see…

Topic: HDR Photoediting and Techniques / Dslr with max 3 bracketing expore TRICK to 9 exposures

I have done this even to a extreme, here is write-up I did for some friends on expanding the extended bracketing on their Pentax DSLRs:

Expanding your exposure brackets
If the scene requires it you can expand these bracketed shot ranges. After selecting Exposure Bracketing take your initial group of shots now adjust your EV Compensation so the bracketed shots move either to the right to gain +EV or left to provide additional -EV will allow you to capture the full range of the image you visualized and want to capture.
Example:
• 5 images: 0EV > -1EV > +1EV > -2EV > +2EV Now if I press the button and watch my status screen either in the viewfinder, LCD or live view if available I can adjust the EV till I see +3.0 or +5.0 depending on your camera, basically you want your left hand bracket marker to be on one stop above your previous max. Now when I now take my bracketed picture will result in:
• 5 images: +5EV > +4EV > +6EV > +3EV > +7EV
Now we repeat this only we set our far right hand bracket marker to one step lower, -3.0 or -5.0 this results in:
• 5 images: -5EV > -6EV > -4EV > -7EV > -3EV
This gives us a 15 stop range total which is pretty amazing and likely far in excess of what would be needed. This of course could be modified to needs by first spotmetering for your max highlight and shadows you want to see texture in and then adjust accordingly expanding your range if needed.

Topic: Advice and Comments / Tendency to over do HDR

I see over doing the HDR effect all the time. I am guilty of it as well. I can’t stop myself. How do you know when to back off burgor57?

Topic: HDR Subjects / The total dislike of HDR

I am new to the HDR world and I find it impossible to resist over processing my images. The images that I most admire on this website are the photos that don’t even look like they have been processed. I haven’t figured out the software yet and learn how to do that. I’m sure it will come with time. Although I love HDR, I am not a fan of being hunched over a computer doing post-production work. I would rather be out shooting or in the darkroom making an old cyanotype process. I’m a “hands on” gal.

Topic: Hardware / Sigma DP1s

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