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.
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.
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.
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I see you've ignored your own advice to Matty and included a brick wall for interest.
RB......shhhhhhhh Matty wont notice he's too busy finding another brick wall to image.
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.
if i may ask what is the tripod you are using Please?
Triopod is the Manfrotto 055 with the Manfrotto 410 gear driven head.
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Am I right in thinking that I would need CS3? At the moment I'm using PS7.
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.
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...
