Comments on: Assemble HDR sequences QTPFSGUI

By: Enry

Enry — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:56:24 +0000

Following this trial, I’m trying to do my first HDR but, when arrive to step 9, QTPFSGUI doesn’t charge my photo… and I can’t do my work…
What do you think about this problem?
Many thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English!!!

By: Don Peterson

Don Peterson — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:19:59 +0000

I agree with wizziewoo. It’s so easy to use those sliders to “bring out” color and easy enough to overdo it. It’s a good idea to step back once in awhile, or even get up and walk away from your editing. When you come back it may look different to you. However, I shoot with the idea that I can bring out detail with programs like Photoshop and Lightroom so I will shoot to expose middle values, knowing i can bring out details in highlights and shadows later on the computer. This, of course, is similar to burning and dodging in the dark room only it’s more convenient, less messy, and quicker. I keep away from the saturation adjustment because it is so easy to overdo although a little tweaking with “vibrance” seems to help some images.

I enjoy this forum immensely and have learned much through honest critiques since I first logged on here. And I look forward to continued enlightenment. Thanks.

By: wizziewoo

wizziewoo — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:34 +0000

Sorry, but the end result looks like the pictures I would churn out during my “overproccessing” stage I went through half a year ago. My images were overly saturated and color-crazy to cover up for their many flaws, and I thought it was normal to have to rescue every image through editing……..thank heavens I got over that! Not that my work is awesome or anything. But I think forcing myself to get the quality in the image WHEN you are taking it, and not after during the editing process is very important.

There are a lot of beginners on this site, photographers who are just starting out and eager to create beautiful images. Please do not encourage them to go the route I did and view editing as the most crucial part of a photo.

Please do not take this the wrong way, DPS has been incredibly helpful to me, and a constant source of inspiration; it has also been my main source of instruction in photography. I greatly appreciate the time and work that goes into this, but please be careful what you are teaching. Bad habits are hard to shake off.

By: Russell Phillippe

Russell Phillippe — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:13:43 +0000

I got the software and got an awful mess out of it… Could someone explain how they managed to get anything remotely workable out of it please? Rick seems to have got the hang of it!

Its not that I’m lazy and don’t want to figure it out myself, literally nothing I slide up or down seems to improve the picture!

Thanks

By: Seb

Seb — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:32:10 +0000

Tutorials like this is why the web is polluted with bad and overdone HDR processing. Even thought the shot wasn’t the best example on how to make an HDR, it could’ve been way better (reading the comments here proves it).

Come on DPS! You can do better than that…

By: Jer

Jer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:12:18 +0000

Hahaha, these comments are hilarious. Plainly there is zero quality control going on here. DPS, your audience deserves better.

By: Don Peterson

Don Peterson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:06:02 +0000

What!? No Mac Version???

By: hfng

hfng — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:32:31 +0000

Actually can anyone just write any article and post any images on DSP? Shouldn’t there be a quality control somewhere?

By: Brandon Burns

Brandon Burns — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:05:10 +0000

@vitaliy Thanks! Most of these captures are long exposures ~30 minutes after the sun sets. Feel free to email me any questions.

By: Werner

Werner — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:25:40 +0000

Sorry, but that final result is horrible. It is a bad example of HDR.