Disneyland in HDR photography

[NemoVir]

I love the pictures with buildings and landscapes., but the one with people are just plan creepy.

[aliasdisney]

Wow, Amazing, Holy Cow... Crap or anyother term of wowness you prefer may be placed here. Thanks for sharing this with us. Ya'll are smarter than I with a camera and computer. I think this is part of the reason I don't put ANY pictures up.

[thereviewer]

HDR gives me goose bumps and disney HDR is amazing, you get rep!

[CUatDL]

Wow! Wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing and introducing this great technique that folks can add to their toolbox.

CU@DL

Andy

[sdmom]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

[frecky]

God, these are awesome. I wish I could do that.

[scorsese]

I've seen this before... it's an awesome effect. So Frog let's see some from you!

[Aristocat]

No problem. The Cinderella/Parade HDR is misleading, because it was done using a single raw image. Because a RAW datafile allows you to change exposure up to four stops positive or negative, you can make three copies of one RAW file, and then expose one properly, expose one several stops darker, and expose the other several stops lighter. When merged, the HDR image has all the data of three shots, but doesn't have the blur from obviously different shots.

Photoshop won't merge to HDR when you try to save a single RAW file at different exposures. If you try, you'll get this error message:

“There is not enough dynamic range in these photos to construct a useful HDR image.”

Here is what I found when I Googled the message:

"A single camera raw file does not contain enough dynamic range to generate a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. Changing the exposure setting changes the relative brightness of the pixels, not the exposure value of the entire image.

Photoshop uses the exposure values in the EXIF data in image files, if available, to determine if there is enough dynamic range to generate an HDR image. "

Just an FYI

[VWCat]

very trippy,cool pics

[Giddy4Aladdin]

Those pictures are unbelievable! So beautiful. I would love to see so much more!

[RobotMirror]

Please read my message. I was responding to the question of why there wasn't blur in the Cinderella photograph.

The answer is because the photographer created that HDR image from a single raw image.

Nowhere in the original quote did I say that the photographer used Photoshop for that particular image, and in fact he didn't. If you click on the image itself, you can see the photographers notes and comments.

But in fact you can make HDR images from a single raw image - there's a whole photopool on flickr that does just that:

http://flickr.com/groups/raw2hdr/pool/

And often, it's the only way to get HDR images from a subject in motion -- this HDR image was created using four raw images:

-- from diedm - (?)

But, uh, thanks for your "FYI" anyway.

Photoshop won't merge to HDR when you try to save a single RAW file at different exposures. If you try, you'll get this error message:

“There is not enough dynamic range in these photos to construct a useful HDR image.”

Here is what I found when I Googled the message:

"A single camera raw file does not contain enough dynamic range to generate a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. Changing the exposure setting changes the relative brightness of the pixels, not the exposure value of the entire image.

Photoshop uses the exposure values in the EXIF data in image files, if available, to determine if there is enough dynamic range to generate an HDR image. "

Just an FYI

[pratt55]

Thank goodness for all you Mice Chat photogs. I will probably never be able to do this but can count on you all to start and to post samples of your work.

[Ginarella]

Very cool images.

My favs were the ThunderMountain and California Screamin shots

[pirateslife4me]

Wow! It's going to be fun to see your future pictures! Is photography a hobby or a business for you? Have you tried Disneyland yet?

[Capt Hook]

I just did a little test tonight tell me if this is like the pictures on here. I will show the before and after.

Before



After