Monterrey Beach HDR Tutorial
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Loading ...I was taking photographs for a client’s website, this business is a Hotel in a private beach on the coast of Nayarit México (www.monterreybeach.com) and it was the perfect situation to try to take an HDR for the first time, here’s how i made it.
Set your camera to take RAW format pictures. RAW is very handy for this specific porpoise, when processing the photos you can make the most of each one.
Set the bracketing of your camera to take the right exposures for your subject, the point is to get as much details as possible using different expositions from the same subject.
You will need to need to take at least 2 photos with different exposures, in this case I took three. The pics need to be exactly the same in terms of composition, and for this you’d need a tripod. Some software can help you adjust little details and differences between the photos but I believe the best way is to use a steady tripod.
Take your pictures until you are happy with the details of your subject using different expositions.
Turn your Mac on
Process your RAW files and export them in 32 bits TIFs. The files might result quite big, but is always better to work with rich info files of 32 bits.
Open your HDR software, for this picture I used Photomatix Pro. Play with different settings until you’re satisfied with the results, then proceed to tonemap your hdr.
By now you’re probably very excited with the resulting image, take your photograph into photoshop for the last details and enjoy.
For this shot I took something like 10 sets of pictures until i was happy with the shots but then it took me a whole morning to get a decent result, the secret for HDR’s is definitely practice and patience.
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Your picture is lovely & instructions are simple and clear.
I´ll give it a try it and let you know the result. Thanks a lot!
If you do give it a try let me know, hope the tutorial is useful. Cheers!
I looks like a perfect place to spend your honey moon… wait, what?
C’est Magnifique please post more of this great tips
Merci Jean Paul, i’ll try to post many more tutorials. Are you interested in any specific subject? thanks very much for visiting.
Claudio, nice work, explained in a simple way. I’ll try Photomatix. Great photoblog by the way you have really good shots!
Congrats bro.
Great work Claudio – I love this shot.
I love this picture…I thought you used a special lenses. But now I know the secret ;P
Merci
Estan padrisimas!!! felicidades…hasta se me antojó estar ahi
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que linda y que ganas de ya estar ahíiii!!
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that´s a great beach
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I barely remember the place…
Great picture doe