Photography anyone?

[GrassyKnoll]

Well my car is takin the back seat for a little while as I spend money on other things. I just bought a Nikon D80 digital SLR to try to get into photography a little more ~snappy~


I am heading out to Montana for a couple weeks on Wednesday to go to some national parks and visit some people (yes, there are actual human beings that live in the state of Montana).

Anyone else into photography with some nice hardware? I am lookin at getting into HDR photography too. I'd love to hit up some HDR pics of my car at some point. We'll see how it goes. I know there's a thread on NASIOC for HDR car pics, anyone on here have some?

[unsakred]

I would speak to Russ(SteelWRX)

[TrickyDik]

Yea, Russ is your man to speak to.

[2mprzya]

purchased a d80 to get into photography... i hate you. i wish i could afford a dslr. also, if you're looking to do any hdr pics, make sure you bring your tripod, and if you would a cable release for a few bucks wouldn't be a bad idea.

[TurboRush]

I wouldn't mind a little tutorial... I have a dslr also (rebel xt, I think Russ has the same)... I sorta kinda know how to use it and have done some reading.. but definitely not taking full advantage of it.

[2mprzya]

tutorial on how to use all the benifits of the camera? or tutorial on how to do hdr photos?

[GrassyKnoll]

http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_1.htm

excellent tutorial on HDR with a DSLR

[TurboRush]

Well.. since I don't know wtf HDR is... I would assume that in the process of learning that it would require me to learn how to use all the features of the camera to alter the outcome of the photo.

[2mprzya]

High dynamic range (HDR) in photography means representing the full range of tonality present in the scene with high perceptual faithfulness. Most HDR techniques currently use software to combine several different exposures of a scene into a single file that maps the full range of luminance at every pixel. This HDR image is then processed in various ways depending on the ultimate usage. For most of us this means tone mapping the HDR image into a 16-bit or 8-bit digital file such as a JPEG or TIFF image.


Its really not that bad at all. really all you are doing is taking a min of 3 pics of the same thing. you have to change your exposure setting of your camera. most will take 3 pics at -2, 0, and +2. You then can take those 3 pics and combined them into 1 picture using such software as Photomatix Pro. This takes the high and low dynamic ranges and "highlights them"

[unsakred]

adobe cs 3 combines them as well^

[GrassyKnoll]

CS2 will do it as will Photomatix. The turtorial that i posted above shows and compares both. photomatix looks best but its also $100 and all it does is really HDR (CS2 FTW)

[2mprzya]

such software as Photomatix Pro.

the only reason that I posted up Photomatix is you can download free trial of it. i know there are tons of other softwares.

[GrassyKnoll]

i know, i was agreeing with you :P