Quick bit of HDR photography

[Steve]

Seeing as my Panasonic FX150 has auto-bracket exposure I thought I'd have a go at a bit of HDR photography.

So I popped the tripod in front of a (dirty) window and took a picture.

After a load of fiddling around with the elegantly named "Qtpfsgui" HDR image editor, I've got a half-decent one.

Here's the centre image:

http://stevekerrison.com/images/hdr/hdr_snow_not.jpg

And here's the HDR version:

http://stevekerrison.com/images/hdr/hdr_snow.jpg

Alas the bracketing will only do +1 & -1 so the range isn't all that "high", and manually tweaking it usually ends up in the camera being moved.

Still, at least it worked.

[format]

Looks good. Try for a night shot now

[Fraz]

Hahah - man you must live about 2 doors down from where I used to live a few years back. I still only live about 10 mins walk away from there.

50 quid says your nearest corner shop is called the 10 o'clock shop.

[Steve]

50 quid says your nearest corner shop is called the 10 o'clock shop.

I can hear the door chime of the 10 o'clock shop from my balcony

Looks good. Try for a night shot now

Will give it a go. It's only a compact camera but I'll see how it copes.

[Fraz]

In fact, judging be the bush on the left-hand side of the picture, I used to live in the ground floor flat next door to you on your left

Small world, eh?

Parking on that road is a bitch!

[Steve]

Small world indeed. Don't envy you having to live next door to us though!

[Fraz]

Small world indeed. Don't envy you having to live next door to us though!

There used to be a total psycho who owned the garden flat beneath us (he had a yappy dog as well). Used to enjoy inviting loads of people around mid-week and play load music out of his patio doors at 3AM. Then would complain in a totally psychotic manner if we made *ANY* noise at all. I got a decibel meter off the council in the end and recorded the noise he made. The council ended up sending him a letter threatening to confiscate all his audio equipment Pleased me no end. For your sake, I hope he's not still there!

Nice photos by the way

[colmo]

Seeing as my Panasonic FX150 has auto-bracket exposure I thought I'd have a go at a bit of HDR photography.

So I popped the tripod in front of a (dirty) window and took a picture.

After a load of fiddling around with the elegantly named "Qtpfsgui" HDR image editor, I've got a half-decent one.

I actually once sent an email to the author begging for a change of name.

My main issue with qtpfsgui is that the images change substantially with some algorithms depending on the output image size, so previewing is all but impossible with those modes. There are a LOT of different algorithms to choose from, though.

[Steve]

Yeah, two of algorithms in that program are by a lecturer in my department at uni - Erik Reinhard. He does some clever stuff.

But yeah there's something amiss with the fact that they're not consistent across output resolutions.