Comments on: HDR Tutorial Part 3

By: jojo

jojo — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:44:57 +0000

First – love your work. congratulations.
Second – For a middle range hobbiest like me, i think this tutotial wasn´t very good.I get lost while reading this tutorial.
Thank you anyway.

By: Christian Hofer

Christian Hofer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:15:47 +0000

Hi Trey,
I really admire your work! You inspired me to take HDR pics on my own. Thanks to your tutorial I think I even managed get decent results.
I have one comment about the way how you work the pic in PS. I recommend to put the photomatix HDR-pic in the bottom, put the original pics with a black layermask on top of it. If you do it this way you can mix together all your pics destruction-free.
Keep up your excellent work and in case you are in Vienna/Austria give me some heads up that I can join you in your photowalk
Christian

By: sam jackson

sam jackson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:26:34 +0000

just wanted to thankyou, the best HDR tutorial i have seen.
although, where is the topaz adjust step? or do we replace the bonus step using lucis software with the topaz?

thankyou very much

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:08:50 +0000

Hi there – I seem to getting unwanted dark vignetting on images once processed through Photomatrix. I have tried adjusting sliders etc but doesn’t help. Any suggestions? Thanks for such great tutorials.

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:49:08 +0000

I didn’t know of the existence of HDR until a year ago or so. Since then I’ve read and watched every single tutorial on HDR I could find (and I found many). This tutorial is by far the most informative and detailed of all.
Thanks so much for sharing, motivating and promoting this revolutionizing way of experiencing the world around us.

By: dbltapp

dbltapp — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:12:42 +0000

You might want to revisit “Step 6, Continued Stacking and Aligning the Photos” and address the sequencing of steps. I may confuse easily, but as an instructional designer this section seems scrambled.

Other than that, great job and thanks.

By: Shamouna

Shamouna — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:36:10 +0000

Amazing O_O

By: Victor Garcia Mestre

Victor Garcia Mestre — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:52:02 +0000

This is the best HDR tutorial I’ve ever read so far, thank you so much!

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:02:03 +0000

WOW!!

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:01:42 +0000

I found this tutorial by accident. It’fantastic!

By: Gilles

Gilles — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:54 +0000

I found this tutorial by accident. I haven’t tried creating an HDR yet, but reading this really got me excited about it and made it sound fun rather than overwhelming. Definitely bookmarking for later!! Thanks!

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:28:09 +0000

Hi Trey,
just wanted to say i do teach about HDR the next days and found your site while research.I will show some of your work to the students to show “the good way” of using it! Good Job.
Greetings from germany.

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By: Daz

Daz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:21:14 +0000

Thanks Trey for a great tutorial. Very easy to follow, even with my lack of Photoshop skills (I must try to improve). Thanks again and Happy New Year !!!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:50:30 +0000

Hi Trey!

I have been following you for a few years on Flickr and have finally decided to take the plunge with HDR. Thanks very much for this tutorial- really easy to follow, clear and simple- just how I like it!

All the best for a Merry Christmas!

Kim

By: Vicky

Vicky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:23:20 +0000

So, after your great video (http://vimeo.com/8165600), I understood what I was doing wrong: Image Stabilization and Auto Focus,must be OFF. Thanks a lot Trey !!!

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:06:06 +0000

Thank you very much for these tutorials. Speaking generally you have helped me a lot making my life more beautiful. However I have still a problem that I cannot resolve. I use to have a light tripod and I couldn’t shoot a descend underexposed photo. After your tutorial I bought the Manfrotto 190 CX PRO 3. with the Manfrotto 322 RC 2. But still when I import my photos to Photomatix I see double lines at the edges. And generally the night shots with long exposures (ISO 100) are not sharp, they look shaky. My camera is Canon 400D with 17-85 lens. I even bought a remote control, but the problem remains. Have you any idea that might help me?

By: Robyn Gallant

Robyn Gallant — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:27:37 +0000

Trey,

I am only confused by one thing. After I copy and paste each image into my base image I then have the original 3 image layers and the copy and pasted layer images. Which ones do i keep? If i go by your example above it looks like I delete the copy paste layers – yours shows your original images after the copy paste step. But that doesn’t make sense to me. Shouldn’t I be keeping the copy and paste ones?
Just in case you did not follow all that…
I import 4 photos into CS3. One of these is the Photomatix one. I do the copy paste of each one into the Photomatix one and I end up with 3 new layers for a total of 7 layers now. Which ones do I keep?

By: SK

SK — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:40:14 +0000

Wow, I am speechless. Nice & detail explanation about HDR Photography for someone as new and dumb person like me. Loved every moment of your explanation, It was easy to understand, Funny, Humorous and well written article. I truly appreciate you took your precious time to explain everything. I had purchased Photomatix yesterday and the result was not so impressive, but I understand there’s more to it than just Photomatix…your shots, imaginations, creativeness, other software combination and so forth. Thanks again, Your article help me understand lots of things and open my eye’s again. Your pictures are awesome, I definitely did not wanted my pictures to look like my drug addict friends created them while they were high Now go back to work and get some more great shot…cause I am not getting enough of your pics.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:52:25 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial Trey, I love your work, and look forward to the book.
I haven’t read all 642 posts here, so hope this isn’t a repost. I see you convert from RAW to jpeg, and some other people convert to Tiff. Does it matter? Is there any quality is lost in jpeg compared to tiff?
Thanks,
Jeff