I’ve had the pleasure of owning a Nikon d80 for the last two months and have only recently started playing around with the advanced image post-processing techniques like HDR which have interested me for so long. Unsurprisingly, HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging is appealing to so many people because it can make images look larger than life and surreal with the colours and contrast which are shown.
Now that daylight savings has kicked in I can get home from work during daylight hours. A recently southerly picked up the surf swell and I got some excellent photos of a well known big wave surfer and Bra Boy, Richie Vaculik surfing a normally rather insignificant break at Lurline Bay.
Qtpfsgui is one of the finer HDR/tone-mapping pieces of software available for Linux, despite the abhorrent name choice. With a bit of tweaking I managed to get a few nice images out of my raw images. I’m looking forward to improved HDR support for KDE in Krita.
Just in case you don’t know:
There is a bug report about the tone mapping support in Krita,
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125543
and it shows that parts of the work has been done already.
Awesome photos btw. You used just one raw image, am I right? I wish I would also have such a camera…
Hi, I am also trying to do the same with my Samsung Pro815 its great fun!
One little thing, would be nice if you posted the shots prior to tone – mapping, its always nice to see before and afters!
Great photos
James
Yes, I’ve been using single Raw images.
Nice camera, I got a D80 too which I’m quite happy with
That is some cool shots you made there, I’m going to have to try creating some myself.
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Very nice pics’s. Looks like a great spot to be.