London police car at night

Picture by andyl_london


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  • December 30, 2009
  • Nikon D3000
  • Nikkor 55mm
  • Shooting Style Tripod
  • Shoots Number Multiple Exposure
  • Exposures Number
  • Editing Software Photoshop
  • File Format JPEG
  • Notes timed exposures, personally I think it's come out too cartoony but it is the first one... hopefully i'll get better from here on.
police london Night help

4 Comments

30 Dec 18:31
andyl_london

My first attempt at HDR, not quite what I expected... Maybe I should have done a day shot first? Still this is about learning so any advice welcomed... I used a tripod and took five shots but ended up using just three, a 3", an 8" and a 13"... I used Photoshop CS2 following a tutorial, nothing said what to save it as in the end though, i've been through psb, tiff and plently others... but now I think you just go back to jpg once it's all done right???

30 Dec 21:39
mattcollins

Not bad for a first attempt. The car looks a little out of focus. Always save your images as TIFF. Every time you open a jpeg image, fiddle with it and save it again you the image loses some information. This, however doesn't happen with TIFF images as th

30 Dec 21:42
mattcollins

......ey are 'lossless'. Only convert your images to jpeg when you are sure you've finished editing them and are ready to upload them.

30 Dec 21:45
mattcollins

Oh, and photoshop is awesome for editing pictures but personally i prefer standalone software for processing HDR. GET PHOTOMATIX, it's awesome!

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