med: Thank you :) it’s one of my favourite HDRs so far, I’m going to love it! Anyway what really puzzles me is where did you derive your nickname from?

Melissa: Yes it’s correct, as long as you have 3 (or more) differently exposed photos. Now what you need to do now is either use Photoshop’s HDR function, accessbile via File > Automate > Merge to HDR. You’ll be asked to do some tweaking and the rest it’ll do for you :) oh and if you don’t mind watermarks, you can use Photomatix to get your HDR tone-mapped too (but it adds watermarks to your HDRs in the end). Panthee Sweat is nice enough to share an interesting way of removing the watermarks though.

iCalvyn: The blue is a result of a HDR artefact where colours are used to be saturated (or sometimes worse, OVERsaturated). I use a consumer grade camera, Pentax Optio S55.

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letti: Thank you!

ingSiang: Rooftop is quite well done, I just hated the fact that I’ve took a long time to get the photos taken (7 in total) such that the clouds overhead have moved significantly, causing a grey-ish blur on the top left corner :( anyway your fireworks photo doesn’t look artificial at all! Shooting from the bottom is another interesting way at looking things.

Michelle: Thank you! Actually it’s the photo manipulation programme that’s getting the colours out real good… my skills are not very good yet! I’m still yet to grasp the art of taking photos of perfect composition… for some reason I still can’t handle the rule of thirds well, lol :mrgreen: yeap thanks I think I’m forgoing 800×600 compatibility…

ranz: Thank you, I feel really honoured to have a reader like you who frequently drops by my blog :D Welcome to the world of photography and congratulations on getting your very first dSLR (oh mans I’m yet to get one, heh :razz: but it’s okay)… actually I am yet to post a tutorial on HDR, I’m flattered to know that you find my HDR posts useful (since I gave very vague instructions and very little details)… you’ll surely be a wonderful photographer, makr my word :) thank you for the tips, I really appreciate them! Have a great day, and see you soon.

Although I pay homage to your site quite often, I have never felt the need to leave a comment so far. I’m just a casual visitor who enjoys looking at the pictures you take and the blog posts you write.

This time round, however, I think its necessary for me to thank you for writing that article on HDR photography. I’ve just ventured into the world of photography a couple months ago (getting my first dSLR) and I have to say your post about HDR really taught me a lot!

So i wikipedia-ed more about HDR, read some more tutorials and articles and played around with this technique for a while. It really produced some excellent pictures for me! On a side note I’d like to leave my two cents on this topic, as a way of saying thank you. Try taking photographs of cloudy skies at dusk, during sunsets or evenings. The contours of colors and displacement of shadows leaves alot of detail to be appreciated once you merge all different exposures into a HDR image.

thanks again for introducing me to HDR and keep up the good blogging! Looking forward to your next batch of pictures.

cheers!
Ranz from canada

anyway, back to the template, just as ivy has already said, 800 x 600 screen resolution is really outdated. i dont think many ppl used that anymore.

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Happy CNY to you! =)

Thanks for the link, =) It’s kind of artificial looking tho, because I shoot it from the bottom (almost 90 degree, lol). =S

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