I *FINALLY* got round to taking some more pictures of something other than my family. Escaped for a weekend with Andy and Shaun in Malham in the yorkshire dales. Stunning place.
This is probably the only HDR from the trip - I concentrate on filters and normal photos nowadays, but I liked the way this one turned out. This waterfall is above another waterfall that you have to climb up - it’s like something from Jurassic Park up there - really weird environment.
Techical details: iso 100, f/11, tripod, 3 shot HDR processed in photomatix pro
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Hi Dan, Love your stuff, ( especially as Yorkshire is my home county, but stuck down south) I’m just getting into HDR and was wondering if you had used filters and HDR, i was think polariser and ND gradient, do they work with HDR? does it cause any issues, just about to invest in Photomatix Pro - Thanks Awesome stuff
Hi Tallguy
I think I’ve used polarisers, but not ND grads. When I first got ND grads, I was disappointed with the strength of their effect, as it was when I just started HDR, and so I left them in the bag for a year whilst I tried to ‘perfect’ HDR. Towards the end of that time I started to get a bit sick of HDR, and got the filters out again (partly inspired by my friend Andy - see his blog here who gets great pics with them). As a result, I now use filters 99% of the time and just rattle off the odd HDR, both for old time’s sake and for this blog.
Anyhoo… the short answer is no, it won’t cause you any issues. With a correctly set up ND grad (ie. the right sort of darkness and covering the right bit of the image) it should mean you can make your HDR with slightly less of a gap between the three images, as you won’t have to step one down hugely to take the sky into account, so you may find you end up with more natural looking images. I’d definitely recommend having a go without the HDR though too, to see which one you prefer, as HDR can become a bit of a visual cliche after a while - all the good ones have a certain HDR-ness in common, which is often the first thing people notice about them - I now like people to say “ooh great pic” rather than “ooh nice HDR”
Hi Dan, I just stumbled on your website about HDR and Photomatix which is very interesting as I’ve just ‘discovered’ HDRs (and panoramic photography) and have had a quick dabble with the trial version of Photomatix just this week.
My question relates to what seems to me to be excessive noise in the images that Photomatix makes. Images taken at base ISO on my full-frame Nikon D700 are extremely clean, yet when I combine three of them in Photomatix there seems to be loads of noise, especially in blue skies. Is this an issue with Photomatix, or am I missing some vital step here? I hope this can be solved as I’ve put Photomatix aside until I can solve this problem.
With kind regards,
Richard
PS Sorry this isn’t related to the image above but I couldn’t see how else to contact you
Hi Richard
Some images can turn out very noisy, I agree. I’ve dropped you an email to ask more specific questions.
Cheers,
Dan
Very nice Mr N