POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : HDR photography : Re: HDR photography Server Time
28 Jun 2024 22:34:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: HDR photography  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 25 Jan 2017 02:57:52
Message: <58885a80$1@news.povray.org>
On 24-1-2017 21:00, Stephen wrote:
> On 1/24/2017 7:36 PM, Kenneth wrote:
>> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>>> It had been a long time pending, but finally I have done something I
>>> wanted to do for some time...
>>> (clip)
>>> Here is one result, from my neighbourhood.
>>>
>>
>> Really beautiful, just the photo itself.
>
> It is nice but the background is missing something.
> I know. Mountains. :-)

That is because you are standing on top of the mountain. :-) It is a 
high point in the landscape: an ice-age dune.

>
>> Looks like a painting. I haven't tried
>> any HDR photography yet; my consumer-grade Canon camera doesn't take RAW
>> images-- but it *might* be able to take a series of bracketed
>> exposures like
>> yours does, although I haven't tried that yet(!)
>>
>> The 2nd photo looks a *bit* dark in the shadows (or rather, 'muddy'),
>> IMO, but
>> still nice.
>>
> It looks fine on my monitor. In fact from a Dutch master it is very
> light. ;-)
>

I am playing with the settings in the program. I find the hdr settings a 
bit muddy too. The alternative 'sum' settings seem to result in crisper 
results.


-- 
Thomas


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