HDR Grasshopper what next...lol

[Striker]

Mr Grasshopper happen to be lazing around on my brick wall so I decided to take a few macro shots, once he felt comfortable with my presence I decided to do some HDR shots and with the light dwindling away some of the exposures where Nealy 2 seconds at F26.

I hope you like and all so added a pic of the set up I had to use.

No way I could image at F26 with 2 sec exposures hand held doing HDR.

I was happy with the result considering it's a boring brown grasshopper and yes backed off the saturation heaps down to virtually normal.

Its a combination of 3 Images with different exposure times.

[RB]

That's come up very very well Tony.
Heaps of detail and terrific colour rendition, you've done a great job on the HDR process mate.

I see you've ignored your own advice to Matty and included a brick wall for interest. :lol: :P

[iceman]

I like it, nice work.

[Robert_T]

Tony, this is exquisite! You're breaking new groun here with HDR on a bug "in the wild". I'm happy if I can just focus on the buggers before they dissappear.

Can we see a non HDR comparison. I love this one:thumbsup:

[Dennis]

A very nice photo Tony, well done. It’s quite a different world down at the macro level isn't it?.

Cheers

Dennis

[h0ughy]

wonderful detail, well done Tony

[Striker]

Thanks guys,




No worries but I dont want to start another debate on what should be HDR and what shouldn't.....yes I agree this type of image is not really dedicated to HDR but I can definetly see the difference particurly around the head area doing HDR as there is many different shades that show up in HDR.




RB......shhhhhhhh Matty wont notice he's too busy finding another brick wall to image.

HDR and single image attached.

[vindictive666]

wonderful shots Tony


if i may ask what is the tripod you are using Please?

regards john

[StephenM]

Great image Tony! That HDR vs single image comparison is very interesting - I'll have to try HDR one day. Am I right in thinking that I would need CS3? At the moment I'm using PS7.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Striker]

Triopod is the Manfrotto 055 with the Manfrotto 410 gear driven head.




No none of my HDR images have gone anywhere near CS3 even though it's a great program, all have been combined and processing in a very simple program called Photomatix pro 3.0
Email me and I will give you the details.

[ving]

very interesting tony. i'd have never thought that HDR could be used in bug shot, but you have proven you can :)

[AlexN]

The side by side images of HDR vs. Non HDR are very dramatic! You've done a fantastic job with the tones to keep it looking very natural at the same time as digging out all the available detail...

Brilliant work Tony..

[Octane]

Tony,

That is absolutely fantastic! There is so much subtle colouration and detail in that grasshopper.

Well done.

Edit: by the way, what lens did you use?

Regards,
Humayun

[Striker]

Humayun,

Canon 100mm F2.8 Macro USM...I love this lens.

http://www.canon.com.au/products/cameras_lenses_accessories/macro_lenses/ef100mmf28macrousm.aspx

[Robert_T]

Hey Tony, well there's no doubt in my mind on this one the HDR wins hands down:D

Do you use Photomatrix by preference over CS3 or is it just what's to hand.

I find the CS3 not very flexible and wondered if some more dedicated HDR software would be the go?

cheers,

Rob

[Striker]

Rob ,
The real die hards will say CS3 is the go but unless you know how to produce the results with CS3 it can be very demanding.

Photomatix is as simple as it can get.

I will PM you some details

[AlexN]

Photomatix is awesome.