Take me out to the ball game...

[Indy]

Shot this on the way home from work this afternoon, of the local minor league baseball team's stadium...just something short and sweet, liked the coloring of the rusting steel columns :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3080/3201949309_db7ea09eab_b.jpg (http://flickr.com/photos/sonicaeronautic/3201949309/)

[Debbie]

That camera is amazing!!

[YARDofSTUF]

With the effects you do, green and black/gray images have a very interesting look.

[Humboldt]

With the effects you do, green and black/gray images have a very interesting look.

Does that one actually have any effects?

[Indy]

Does that one actually have any effects?

It's not so much effects as it is post processing with photomatix. It's a matter of taking multiple exposures of an image, and combining them to give a wider range of light within the photograph. With most cameras when you take a single exposure, depending on what the exposure is set to, you may have under exposed parts of the image, and over exposed parts of the image. HDR takes the multiple exposures, combines them to eliminate any over/under exposed parts of the image, and gives you an image that is more akin to what your eye sees when looking at something.

Now with the program I use, photomatix, you can tweak different settings, so you have a lower or higher contrast, more/less color saturation, light and shadow smoothing, among other things to help the image out. Some people use these too liberally, and it makes the image, in my opinion, very hard to look at - it's like looking at a blown glass ornament. When I use it, I try to maintain more of a natural look, although sometimes enhanced.

Any camera is capable of producing HDR images. It's just a matter of taking differently exposed images and combining them together.

[Humboldt]

:nod:

I've read your HDR posts, just wasn't sure if you'd tweaked this photo or not.

Curious, photomatix will combine the different exposures but I don't think my Sony DSC W170 came with the software to cull those different exposure levels. Anything else out there you'd recommend?

When I googled the software you mention in the leg thread tutorial I found a link for the Sony software you're using but you need to have the priginal discs that came with the camera as well. Wondering if there's anything else similar out there.

Thanks Indy.

[Indy]

Does your camera have the capability of shooting RAW format?

[Humboldt]

Does your camera have the capability of shooting RAW format?

Nope. Deciding factor, eh?

[Indy]

Nope. Deciding factor, eh?

Not completely. You can still do exposure bracketing in most cameras, where it will take three exposures of a shot rapid-fire. You can then feed those into photomatix and let it do it's thing. The Kodak camera I've got is just a point and shoot, format is jpg, but has the exposure bracketing that allows for the processing in photomatix. It may just be a matter of figuring out how to do the bracketing on your camera. Be warned tho, you'll need a very steady hand or a tripod to do it...

[Humboldt]

Not completely. You can still do exposure bracketing in most cameras, where it will take three exposures of a shot rapid-fire. You can then feed those into photomatix and let it do it's thing. The Kodak camera I've got is just a point and shoot, format is jpg, but has the exposure bracketing that allows for the processing in photomatix. It may just be a matter of figuring out how to do the bracketing on your camera. Be warned tho, you'll need a very steady hand or a tripod to do it...

I'll check that out, still figuring out the bells on this thing.