Photography

[whisper]

How do they make pictures like this?

This is from Northern Exposure Rescue's Facebook page, hope they don't mind

[willk]

Polariser?

[Seaflyer02]

Also Photoshop. You can download a free programme that is reasonable called Picasa it allows you to edit your photos.

[JamesF]

That looks like an HDR shot. Very striking.

Now I know what the "Exposure" part of Northern Exposure Rescue really means

[Boatnomad]

Yep,HDR

[whisper]

Cool! What does HDR mean?

[Boatnomad]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-d...-range_imaging

[brad]

The image above is HDR but probably not taken with a polariser. So what is HDR and how to achieve it? Well in short, ish see below.

If your photographing a static image, ie a landscape, use a tripod and take a series of exposures of the scene to capture the highlights, mid-tones and shadows correctly. With normal photography you just capture the average scene luminance in the mid-toned range and allow the highlights to burn out and the shadows to black out.

With a subject that moves ie the sea you take one image but in a RAW format. This allows you to re expose the image in post production (on the computer) recording the highlights, mid-tones and shadows as before but from one image.

Once you have all the images recorded you merge them together in Photoshop etc to achieve the desired look. This then shows more detail in the highlights and shadows to give a greater range in the photograph overall.

Regards
Brad

[whisper]

Cool thanks my camera (Nikon J1) doesn't have an AEB setting

So I think as it will mostly be used on the boat, taking pics of RIBs I guess I will use RAW format.

Do you know which photoshop versions or other software that can do HDR from a RAW picture?

[whisper]

I really want to get some cool shots of the MacRib

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by whisper

How do they make pictures like this?



This is from Northern Exposure Rescue's Facebook page, hope they don't mind

That looks like the "dramatic tone" filter on the Olympus OMD series ( & I don't mean Orchestral manoeuvres)
e.g


Scent from my iBone sow iguana any typos whore bed spillings

[jlandells]

Originally Posted by whisper

I really want to get some cool shots of the MacRib

Whisper - am I right in thinking you're close to Swindon? I might be able to get over next weekend (11th May) if you like and see what I can do. I'm no pro, but am pretty good with Photoshop!

-John.

[brad]

One solution would be to take the pics in RAW mode using the Vivid setting on the camera and produce the best possible image using Lightroom (best option) or Capture NX software which should have come bundled with your new camera.

Photomatix Pro 4.2, Adobe Lightroom or a full blow version of Photoshop. Plus many others out on the market will HDR for you in one way or another in post production.

Photomatix is dedicated to HDR but Photoshop can do so much more and can blend layers or HDR merge in auto which I think came with CS2 and onwards. Can't remember exactly so could be wrong on that point, I use CS5 for phot production but haven't used photomatix so can't comment.

I hope this helps.

Regards
Brad

[CJL]

Glad you like the pic!!!

Some more for you........I like the misty morning one best!

Chris

[Barrowboy]

Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

That looks like the "dramatic tone" filter on the Olympus OMD series ( & I don't mean Orchestral manoeuvres)
e.g


Scent from my iBone sow iguana any typos whore bed spillings

I've just switched from Canon to an Olympus omd emc1 (why do they come out with so many letters?) and it's a nightmare learning the new menus. You tend to overlook how much your sub-conscious retains and it's a mission remembering where everything sits on the new camera!

Can't fault the camera though and the weight saving and water resistant attributes are certainly worth having.

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by whisper

How do they make pictures like this?

This is from Northern Exposure Rescue's Facebook page, hope they don't mind

Be nice to ''Pikey'' Alex...and he MAY tell ya and a few other Wrinkles!

[Pikey Dave]

Originally Posted by Barrowboy

I've just switched from Canon to an Olympus omd emc1 (why do they come out with so many letters?) and it's a nightmare learning the new menus. You tend to overlook how much your sub-conscious retains and it's a mission remembering where everything sits on the new camera!

Can't fault the camera though and the weight saving and water resistant attributes are certainly worth having.

I've always been an "Olympus" man, OM10, OM2n & a couple of compacts in between. I've now got an OMD EM5 (know what you mean about the letters) Cracking body, & Oly, has always made the best glass IMHO.