True HDR-Shot by Michael Tillmann
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- ridin
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- Dirt Jumping
- Date Posted
- Jun 7, 2009 at 13:55Jun 7, 2009
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München, Germany
- Trail
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- Andi Tillmann
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- 28848
dont say first comment... it lame
and sweet pic.. too bad all the best qualities are photoshopped with hue/sat and contrast
and sweet pic.. too bad all the best qualities are photoshopped with hue/sat and contrast
- 1110
I don't believe that's an HDR shot.
HDR requires 3 identical pictures of different exposures to be combined as one.
That would be impossible to achieve with a moving target like the rider.
- 62
i think that it is a true HDR
its just that he only used the shot with the rider in it as one layer, then as you can see with one of the clouds to the left of the rider he used all 3.
- 132
You can shoot in RAW & use the extra tonal info as if it were 3 shots, so it is possible, it's just called a pseudo HDR. This one is cool, but a lil over saturated for me & the rider is darkened too much from trying to make the sky more contrasty & that's where it looses it for me, but still a cool shot with a crazy surreal feel to it.
- 52
HDR also refers to the process by which a shot can have the extreme highs and lows like this one does. It can be replicated electronically.
I personally think that it is a poor use of HDR. The shadows on the rider are too extreme and the clouds don't have any definition. It looks great in the thumbnail size, but I was disappointed after I opened the pic.
- 22
this looks like it could be a true HDR shot as you can see some ghosting in the clouds, this could have been achieved with some masking of the rider. I think it is defiantly overdone though, the highlights were lost completely in the tone mapping. Fun effect often overdone. Anyway nice scene and funny expression 
- 11
WOW!!!! thats soooooooooo nice! cool lightning and the clouds are realy interesting...
chilled place to ride... cool POD today
peace
chilled place to ride... cool POD today
peace
- 45
Kiwihardtail, use your head. An HDR photo with a moving object just requires that only one of the pics has the moving object. not that hard. Take a photo of the scene, take one with the rider, then another after of the bare scene. Lay them up HDR style. Thats why the dynamic range on the rider is less noticeable.
Nice pic, but too heavy on the HDR, the range on the clouds is too large. Bright sunshine with almost black sections..... too much.
- 71
Mr. Goblin, use your head too man. "this looks like it could be a true HDR shot as you can see some ghosting in the clouds, this could have been achieved with some masking of the rider." Do you know what masking is? coz he never said you need 3 shots of the rider. If you take 1 shot of the rider & a few without to get the entire dynamic range & just do the HDR straight from there your rider will be transparent, so I would HDR the scene without the rider & add him from the single shot to the finished HDR, would get a much better result.
- 34
It was shot in RAW. That means one picture (which saves each pixel exactly, no compression like in a JPG) of a big file size (10-20mb). A RAW file allows lots of tonal adjustment, meaning you could make three copies of the photo, one of each exposure required to make a HDR. Then combine them, as if making a normal HDR. end of conversation.
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RideDirtWake, thanks for repeating what I said 
"You can shoot in RAW & use the extra tonal info as if it were 3 shots, so it is possible, it's just called a pseudo HDR. "
Also, you don't need to make the RAW into jpg's, you can drop the RAW shot straight into photomatix. Saves a bit of time & you get a better result. end of conversation.
"You can shoot in RAW & use the extra tonal info as if it were 3 shots, so it is possible, it's just called a pseudo HDR. "Also, you don't need to make the RAW into jpg's, you can drop the RAW shot straight into photomatix. Saves a bit of time & you get a better result. end of conversation.
- 623
i like how all you have to do is say epic about a pod and you get positive props out the ass...
sweet shot though!
- 12
behind the take-off ? bottom right of the stands, yeah i can see him to haha
Epic photo aswell, love the HDR aswell
Epic photo aswell, love the HDR aswell
- 42
Wow, you must be a genius to work that one out man! Props to you for your great observation skills!! You should go work for Scotland Yard with those detective skills!
- 30
it looks like "lord of the rings - the extreme version". i'm waiting for Bilbo to turn up on his MX bike
- 10
It's sad that you guys are spending your time complaining about how the picture was made rather than just appreciating it. Good job to photographer and rider, sick shot
- 01
(Jojojof)- you can't, you can try but they never quite turn out. EricPalmer explains (so does the guy right below him.lol) how this type of HDR is done up a few comments
- 01
its not very well focused... the camera probably wasn't positioned on a very stable tripod, if it was the hdr probably would have been sharper
- 20
You can make a HDR out of one RAW file actually. there are loads of good ones on the flickr website. the description of the photo says its a "true HDR" though, which is 3 shots. im not sure how he's done it but you can see that the cloud to the left of the rider has moved which shows he's used more than one photo. It's not very good, clouds are too dark but its not a bad effort
- 10
depends how you set up your image bracketing. If your really good at doing digital editing, some people use 6 or 9 pictures for their HDR. HDR just allows you to capture your image at different levels of exposure to ensure you capture all detail, then combine the focal points of each exposure to create a sharp appealing image. Usually HDR's are used for Cars, buildings and landscapes. It's hard to do an HDR correctly with a moving object in it. It can be done, but even the slight motion of the camera by pressing the button more than once (as apposed to letting your camera do the 3 exposures for you) will cause blur or crappy image quality. It could be true HDR but it's blurry cause he didnt use a remote shutter release.... also did he combine the levels manually or just use adobe's HDR utility? :O
- 10
Yeah, the amount of pics you take depends on the contrast in the scene. If you're shooting in jpg you shouldn't jump more than 1 stop at a time. Most cases you wont need more than 3 or 4 to capture the entire dynamic range, but I have had to take 7 shots for some really high contrast scenes, but find those normally don't come out very well.
- 20
i shoot in cannon .CR2 (RAW) format so no worry in dealing with the loss of quality due to jpeg image compression. I try to avoid jpeg all together. Much better off with shooting raw, editing in photoshop and then saving in .tiff
- 20
Yeah, I stay with RAW too, but you don't have to edit the RAW files before you generate the HDR, I just use the 3 or more RAW files & chuck 'em in Photomatix & let it do it's thing & just do the tone mapping as usual. I used to also make bracketed .tiff's & use those for the HDR, but it's a waste of time, coz you get a better result when you use the RAW's directly.
The lightning is the worst part of it, FAR FROM BEING perfect.Totally underexposed and WAY but WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to much saturation in the sky...OMG this is JUNK
Also loving the seemingly rogue jump in the middle of a field. (props to the rider too
i like this Photo ! the light looks funny
POd