Nikon DSLR "Picture Of The Day"

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Thanks DPR, Chris and ANP

At this size the misalignment is not that visible. You could try to allign the images with a panorama program that can export each image seperately, for instance PTGui.
Here's my picture of the day, another HDR:

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Amazing capture. Simply amazing. Lovey the colours, the mist and the composition.

As for your comment on using PTGUI, how do you align photos then import them into photomatix?

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Originally Posted by craigyc

Another one of Edinburgh Castle, I much prefer this one to the HDR one I posted earlier in the thread.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3327/...30d869cf_b.jpg

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This is really nice but to me looks a touch oversharpened? love the colours and composition.

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Originally Posted by rawpaw18

Having too much fun with my extension tubes.
Flower about the size of US nickel.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/...a88fa00c_o.jpg

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Thats awesome detail and subject

Mine for today:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3617/...108ef98e_b.jpg

It hammered it down after I took that photo...remember, the D80 is NOT weather proof :D

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Originally Posted by photowerkz

Shot this last night, but wasn't done editing it untill today so I'm sneaking it inn as a picture from today :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...er/sunsetw.jpg

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Here's another HDR:

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Fantastic shots. Love the HDR Prospero. Do you ever have any problems with ghosting when there are trees in the shot? I do...how do you get round it?

That susnet is simply awesome photowerkz....thanks for sharing. That image actually calmed me down!

Nice Rawpaw. It's a whole new world opened up for you isn't it.

Great shot Phil, I love the sky.
Rich, very nice macro. The DOF is great.

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Amazing capture. Simply amazing. Lovey the colours, the mist and the composition.

As for your comment on using PTGUI, how do you align photos then import them into photomatix?

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Thanks Phil. PTGUI allows you to export the images a HDR is made of seperately, without any blending applied. You can simply load these into Photomatix. If you want to use detail enhancement you have to be sure the images do not have the black bits (the parts at the edge of the frame that are not covered by all the images). If you do have these parts, it will confuse the detail enhancement algortithm.
The allignment will be better than Photomatix is capable of, but you may get distortion due to the way PTGUI allings images. Especially at 10mm, PTGUI sometimes fails to keep lines straight (even though rectaliniear projection has been chosen). The tripod works best.

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Fantastic shots. Love the HDR Prospero. Do you ever have any problems with ghosting when there are trees in the shot? I do...how do you get round it?

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On windy days I do get ghosting. The day I shot these was rather calm. If I get ghosting I often decide not to use the bright image. I then create the bright image with Capture NX. It's a bit more noisy, but noise is always easier to remove than ghosting.

Here's another picture. This one is a blend of two images two f-stops apart. I edited both until they looked almost the same (except that one had more sky detail and the other less noise on the land). After that, it was very easy to blend in photoshop.

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Great shot Phil, I love the sky.
Rich, very nice macro. The DOF is great.



Thanks Phil. PTGUI allows you to export the images a HDR is made of seperately, without any blending applied. You can simply load these into Photomatix. If you want to use detail enhancement you have to be sure the images do not have the black bits (the parts at the edge of the frame that are not covered by all the images). If you do have these parts, it will confuse the detail enhancement algortithm.
The allignment will be better than Photomatix is capable of, but you may get distortion due to the way PTGUI allings images. Especially at 10mm, PTGUI sometimes fails to keep lines straight (even though rectaliniear projection has been chosen). The tripod works best.



On windy days I do get ghosting. The day I shot these was rather calm. If I get ghosting I often decide not to use the bright image. I then create the bright image with Capture NX. It's a bit more noisy, but noise is always easier to remove than ghosting.

Here's another picture. This one is a blend of two images two f-stops apart. I edited both until they looked almost the same (except that one had more sky detail and the other less noise on the land). After that, it was very easy to blend in photoshop.

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Interesting.

I never use photomatix anymore. always use corel photoshop...will have to look into it to see if it works for that too...

not using the bright image is a good idea...(as that will always have the longer shutter speed and hence the longest time since the other two shots were taken).

thanks!!

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Originally Posted by K1W1

I can see a bug off happening around here soon. :D

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Not if I have to go up against the master, Sir Rooz

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Originally Posted by herc182

Thats awesome detail and subject

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Thanks, the 70-200vr works great with the extension tubes

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Originally Posted by Dread Pirate Roberts

Nice Rawpaw. It's a whole new world opened up for you isn't it.

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It is fun, and you have to look at things completely different.

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Originally Posted by Prospero

Rich, very nice macro. The DOF is great.

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Thanks, that is always my difficulty with the tubes, trying to figure how to gain more DOF

I've did one wedding a year ago and I finally posted some of it on flickr. This was my favorite of the day.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/...c5b36916_b.jpg

Heres an HDR from the other night...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3563/...d2d17369_b.jpg

I'm back!

I hadn't uploaded any photos until now because I lost my battery charger cord, but now I've got a replacement working. Recently my brother found it, and he'll mail it soon.

Anyways a dragonfly flew by our pond today, and I got a few good shots:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/...102509eb_b.jpg

1/1250
f/5.6
200mm
ISO 640

self portrait.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3605/...841f632a9c.jpg