could someone please put the effects of the first photo onto my car pics if its possable, or simlar . thanks

 

Wait right there my son,,,,

 

long wait... lol

 

hehe yeah its actually a real hard one to do.

the pic has to have certain things to begin with, plus theres a seperate plug-in program that actually does it....which costs about 500 quid!
i can nearly replicate it though, done a few of my own motor like it.


heres the best i can get you with the first one.....

 

cheers mate, like it

 

eh not hard at all just use photomatix on it n then tweak it a bit after

 

show us how its done please boiforger

 

had bother with this one. the contrast of the original was giving me jip. same kind of photo but with the flash on would help...

never hear of what boilforger said he uses, im interested though especially if its free! is it a photoshop plug in?

 

nah not free but can be made free fairly easy

http://www.hdrsoft.com/

 

nah 5skin is the pshop guy now apparently

 

haha. i have to say im pretty **** with cars.

life models have always been more my thing....like my old daniel craig hehe

 

i'll check out that photomatix thing though. sounds superb. especially if its just a case of moving sliders rather than a nightmare of channels and layers.

 

lol thats good but the body doesnt quite fit his head, looks like an old midget lol

 

yeah i had one of it smaller... for some reason it looked even weirder cos of the hands. the original old mans hands are mutant massive. look at size of them to his body !!

 

quick one i made for you.

need a bigger image or you get a lot of noise during the tonemapping.

 

this one is not so good.

really needs more detail in the background and more dramatic clouds to make it better.

image is really noisy again due to the small size of the image.

 

this is a picture i took of my girlfriends car,

as you can see the image looks much better because the clouds are so dramatic and theres plenty of detail in the background

 

to be honest, i quite like images in that style with a bit of noise. gives it a gritty look. with a real hard sharpness to them too

 

i think by "noise" they mean halos that appear around objects when there is alot of contrast change. this can be reduced in photoshop but at the expense of other stuff. you need good photos to start with and for HDR you are best starting with at least 3 of the exact same picture but with different exposures, as this is the "dynamic range" the D and R stand for. (H is high lol)

tone mapping gives the surreal look and i wanna try photomatrix as ive only done it with cs3 and a bad camera lol

 

just loaded up the trial of photomatix. its good. it gets me to the base level in a few seconds. i just used to photoshop fiddle for ages to get that initial effect.

see the pro's useage examples of it? check this baby out.... looks like a computer game

 

a halo is totally different to noise. noise occurs in areas of darkness or shade when creating single jpeg pseudo-hdr images.

halos occur when really dark areas meet really bright areas, for example a building and the sky behind it.

some people consider halos to be aesthetic, some unaesthetic. all about preference.

 

Heres my attempt mate changed some of the angles (hope you dont mind)



and on this one got rid of the telegrpah pole, it is rule of thirds but i think i was upsetting the balance and now i hope the shot focuses more on the car



as previously mentioned though due to the small size you will get a lot of noise, you could use noise ninja but i am too tight to pay for it so i dont have it a the moment. Do you have the original? is it in RAW?

 

Here you go mate as requested :-)

 

thanks mate, spot on

 

here you go mate




was really hhard due to the exposure of the sky on the original but came out not too bad

 

top notch mate, ur a good un

 

here you go mate, best of luck in the competition