Comments for Before The Coffee http://beforethecoffee.com Photography Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:59:59 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Comment on Photomatix Tutorial by Technology And Software » Photomatix Tutorial » Before The Coffee http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-18367 Technology And Software » Photomatix Tutorial » Before The Coffee Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:59:59 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-18367 [...] http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/ [...] [...] http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/ [...]

]]> Comment on Photomatix Tutorial by HDR Photography with Eric B. Wood – Joby Blog http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-18255 HDR Photography with Eric B. Wood – Joby Blog Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:00:37 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-18255 [...] Post-Processing Resources Farbspiel Photography HDR Cookbook Before the Coffee PhotoMatix Tutorial [...] [...] Post-Processing Resources Farbspiel Photography HDR Cookbook Before the Coffee PhotoMatix Tutorial [...]

]]> Comment on Review of the 10 Best Photography Apps for the Android by Jenny http://beforethecoffee.com/review-of-the-10-best-photography-apps-for-the-android/#comment-18144 Jenny Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:20:11 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.com/#comment-18144 Awesome! Thanks for the advice! Love your pictures! I had all of those but the Quick Pic and PhotoAf :) Awesome! Thanks for the advice! Love your pictures! I had all of those but the Quick Pic and PhotoAf :)

]]> Comment on Photomatix Tutorial by Jan Maklak http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-17590 Jan Maklak Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:08:14 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-17590 Thank you for an excellent tutorial with things I had not seen before like how to reduce the grain Thank you for an excellent tutorial with things I had not seen before like how to reduce the grain

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]]> Comment on Photomatix Tutorial by Halo grunge | Lipotrez http://beforethecoffee.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-15242 Halo grunge | Lipotrez Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:44:58 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/photomatix-tutorial/#comment-15242 [...] Photomatix Tutorial » Before The CoffeeTip: A good way to reveal your sensor dust is to click on the Grunge thumbnail. … HALOS – A halo is a fringe of brightness around an object that extends into a … [...] [...] Photomatix Tutorial » Before The CoffeeTip: A good way to reveal your sensor dust is to click on the Grunge thumbnail. … HALOS – A halo is a fringe of brightness around an object that extends into a … [...]

]]> Comment on Post Processing by kelowna photographer http://beforethecoffee.com/hdr-post-processing-tutorial/#comment-15197 kelowna photographer Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:07:33 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/hdr-post-processing-tutorial/#comment-15197 What a great post and so informative. Just trying out some of the techniques of HDR, this post will come in very handy. What a great post and so informative. Just trying out some of the techniques of HDR, this post will come in very handy.

]]> Comment on Post Processing by High dynamic range (HDR) imaging « Globitude blog http://beforethecoffee.com/hdr-post-processing-tutorial/#comment-14762 High dynamic range (HDR) imaging « Globitude blog Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:38:22 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/hdr-post-processing-tutorial/#comment-14762 [...] Beforethecoffee.com – Post processing [...] [...] Beforethecoffee.com – Post processing [...]

]]> Comment on Bracketing/# of Images by Lew Mann http://beforethecoffee.com/bracketing-number-of-images/#comment-14658 Lew Mann Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:44:52 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/bracketing-number-of-images/#comment-14658 This was very informative and reinforced the HDR fundimentals I have been learning. I noted in another post that I have no choice but to manually bracket my shots. I can't bracket fast enough to eliminate cloud drift here in north Florida. Is there anything I should do in pre or post processing like ...masking the sky from the best single shot, tonemap it and drop it into the HDR that comes out of Photomatix? This was very informative and reinforced the HDR fundimentals I have been learning. I noted in another post that I have no choice but to manually bracket my shots. I can’t bracket fast enough to eliminate cloud drift here in north Florida. Is there anything I should do in pre or post processing like …masking the sky from the best single shot, tonemap it and drop it into the HDR that comes out of Photomatix?

]]> Comment on HDR -Taking the Pictures by Lew Mann http://beforethecoffee.com/hdr-taking-the-pictures/#comment-14656 Lew Mann Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:10:46 +0000 http://beforethecoffee.wordpress.com/hdr-taking-the-pictures/#comment-14656 I discovered HDR photography just after I bought my Nikon D3100. Unfortanely, it has NO AEB feature!! So, I'm bracketing manually and almost always using a tripod. The manual bracketing slows down the process considerably. So, if there are moving clouds, they sometimes look unreal. Recently, I've been experimenting with single shot HDR. I change the metering to "matrix" (averaging). I shoot at 0EV and process the Raw image 3 times in Photoshop Elements Camera Raw. So I have a -2EV, 0EV and +2EV. Then I process through Topaz DeNoise before Photomatix Pro. Finally, I use Topaz Adjust on each image. You can view my 1st attempts at one-shot HDR here: http://photobucket.com/Wekiva Any comments suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I discovered HDR photography just after I bought my Nikon D3100. Unfortanely, it has NO AEB feature!! So, I’m bracketing manually and almost always using a tripod.

The manual bracketing slows down the process considerably. So, if there are moving clouds, they sometimes look unreal.

Recently, I’ve been experimenting with single shot HDR. I change the metering to “matrix” (averaging). I shoot at 0EV and process the Raw image 3 times in Photoshop Elements Camera Raw. So I have a -2EV, 0EV and +2EV. Then I process through Topaz DeNoise before Photomatix Pro. Finally, I use Topaz Adjust on each image.

You can view my 1st attempts at one-shot HDR here: http://photobucket.com/Wekiva

Any comments suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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