High Dynamic Range, a photo editing technique that takes 3 or more of the same image and combines them together to get the best parts of every image into one amazing pic. you take a picture 3 or so times , but with different shutter speeds. some say it's supposed to make the picture more life-like but it takes time to actually see it like that. in this picture, the photographer took 3 or more pictures, combined, to get the perfect capture of the 3 main things, the guy, the mountains and the clouds.
pretty sure this isn't real HDR. there wouldn't be such strong shadows. not to mention there's some definite editing around the rider. just heavily edited
Hey guys, I took/edited this pic and wanted to disclose how it was edited. It's a 3 exposure, handheld, bracketed, HDR composite. It was processed in photomatix pro and some colour adjustments were made in aperture. No photoshop was involved. Thanks for the support.
That is a freaking cool edit, I'm liking the heavy overcast thats above him and then the clearness behind the mountains. Colors really stand out in this.
Man very few POD's come along without riding. but this is definitely one that should be. nice picture, a good HDR. doesn't look way processed just assembled
Not really sure why people like this one. Way over processed IMO (seems to definitly be a RAW conversion and not a true HDR). The mountains and valley below seem to have a nice big blue splotch on them and the clouds while being "super shadowy" look flat.
Personally i think it could be better with less processing. But thats just my 2 cents. Nicely composed shot though
For those talking of photoshopping around the rider all i can tell is the halo around him but thats an artifact of the RAW processing.
renorider40 your not very smart i hope you know> next time you say something have proof to back your big mouth up. One its not fake its 3 shots putt together. Two, the rider cant be fake einstein, and three just cause you are jealous you try to bring down the person your jealous of who happens to be in the middle of an epic pic. I have one thing to say GET OFF pinkbike.
I like it but just a few pointers if i may - there is a massive halo around the rider which needs masking out. also there a lot of noise which is easily removed with something like noise ninja, and if you're shooting in high altitude where the air is thin you could do with getting a skylight filter, which will get rid of the blue shadows (or you can try using the temperature slider to warm it up a bit).
Very good shot. rarley see HDR'S on here and of this quality is pretty sweet congrats on the POD aswell. could be a hard HDR for biking to beat i think, bearing in my you very rarley see MTB HDR images.
I don't know ... it seems like be photoshoped. Look on the right side on this photo ... the cloud almoust touch the ground, and the edge of the cloud is very sharpen.
I gotta say this is an awesomely epic shot. Nice work with the HDR. I've also got to say that people go way too crazy about HDR photos, just because they look so surreal.
man if you ever buy yourself a huge mansion with wooden walls in the saloon -> put this one on the wall in the size of 4x8 feet at least Do you have the original pic? would be great to see it without HDR too
u are an idiot... saying that photoshopped photos should never get pod is the stupidest thing i have ever heard. i can bet u that a great deal of pods have been somehow edited/
99% of professional photographs have heavy work done on photoshop, corel, or some other editing program. That's how professional photography works. A simple class in photoshop would teach you all about the stuff that is commonly done with professional images.
Saying photoshop should never get pod is like saying anyone who edits their movies with a program like adobe premier, vegas, or final cut should never get vod because it's edited. Come on now.
btw jejq, if it's fake, then you better stop looking at bike mags, stop watching tv, stop looking at pink bike, stop looking at everything with an image or video as it's all edited in some way shape or form. Most of the time there is a lot of editing into each piece as well. Very very rarely does someone take a professional purpose photo and it not need editing.
My uncle in South Africa has been doing photography for a living for well over 4 decades and he edits everything now adays. Just how it is. It's not fake at all. It's called prep for production. What do you think people do with magazine articles. Is it fake to have someone edit your article after you write it?
Like I said, almost every single photo you have ever seen in a magazine, in a book, in a newspaper, has been edited in some way. I bet almost every pod has been edited.
Who cares if it's not a "true" pic. The colors are just intensified and altered. Perfectly acceptable in photography because it uses a "true" pic. Nothing has been hacked up, nothing has been moved or added in. All that was done was working of rates and colors. Something obviously this guy who did it has a good talent at. A+ photographer in my book with a whole lotta skill.
btw how do plastic women have anything what so ever with how professional photos are finalized? Funny because I probably get more tail than you ever will.
And I'm guessin by those shoes that your battin for the wrong team here.
umm, I don't call that a comparison. That's like using oranges an example to talking about apples.
Text and image are more in common than plastic women and photography. Both use the same principals. Adjustments to make the final outcome better.
You may want to join up and look around some photography sites and forums. You will learn a bit about how real professional photography works.