Hdr?

[Left Coaster]

Anyone here shoot HDR at all?

I've been messing around with it for the last month or so. Did some stuff with the watches a little earlier today:





I'm wrestling with reflections but, overall, I'm pretty happy, considering this is my first foray into HDR with watches...

[~tc~]

I want to learn how to do HDR, mostly because I am not a fan of the "cartoony" tone mapping - I like HDR when it looks a bit more "natural"

How many images, and what exposure spread did you use?

[Left Coaster]

I want to learn how to do HDR, mostly because I am not a fan of the "cartoony" tone mapping - I like HDR when it looks a bit more "natural"

How many images, and what exposure spread did you use?

Each is made up of three images, two up and two down in exposures...

[WatchFan1]

FYI, you can do a very nice rather natural looking tone-mapping with HDR look
from a single (preferably RAW) image, I do it often times using Photomatix or Oloneo Photo Engine.
(never tried a watch though.....perhaps soon )

[JBHII]

I've used HDR techniques quite a bit but to be honest don't particularly care for them used on product/macro/watch photography. It's an artistic/stylistic choice and comes down to personal preference.

In about 85% of the photography I do, I can tone map my way to what I'm looking for in a single exposure. If you're talking about an image with very polar extremes in exposure, tone mapping won't work. If the highlights are blown or the lowlights completely obscure in a single image, then you can't tone map your way out of that. You need to to take exposure compensated versions of the image to capture the image detail you couldn't get in a single exposure balanced image. But in most cases, tone mapping works just fine.

[Left Coaster]

Yeah, this is the first time I've tried it. I suppose it's fine, but it's not something I'd do all the time...