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ImagesByAndrew — The Garage HDR Workshop
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Courtesy of , this workshop has been offered to the rest of us in the dA community to practice our HDR tone-mapping skills.Just to be sure that I make this perfectly clear- THIS IS NOT MY PHOTO. This is merely my interpretation of a series of multiple exposures of a single scene intended to be used for a workshop. I am responsible only for the editing and tone-mapping and the image that has resulted from that.
Created using Luminance on Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Remix from five individual digital exposures; -4 , -2 , 0 , +2 and +4 EV all in jpg format.
If you would like to try this for yourself, please visit the creator's deviation page and download the workshop images.
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Very nice and quite dramatic!
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Quite honestly, I am not to this level of photography yet but what I can offer you is that what you did to this picture is quite stunning. If the bleeds your talking about are the darker areas at the "front" of the picture, then bravo, it lends it an essence that is somewhat spooky but not. It is almost like your leaving a dark place and heading out to whats left of civilization. I wish I could have taken the original photograph myself...great job really.
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Seriously now, how do I even begin to respond to a comment like this, Mary? Wow.
I wish I had been responsible for shooting the original images so that I could call this my very own, too. Regardless, I'm happy with what I have made of the workshop. I kept trying to come up with edits that I like better, without the bleed, but I just can't seem to do it.
I think that I feel similarly to you. The bleed is not just colour but luminance (ironically, given the software involved) and I think that it lends a certain magical quality to the view beyond the door and the dirty glass panels. They have a mystic, surreal, foggy quality due to the light and colour bleeding that is going on in that region of the image.
After having some time to look at this edit, I don't think that I would change a thing. Good or bad, it's the most honest expression of what I would do with it and I think it's staying.
Thank-you so much for your thoughtful and kind comments. They are most appreciated! Now you should go and check out what the other 'students' have done with this workshop or have a go at it yourself! I know that I'd love to see how you interpret it!!!
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I will do just that, only tommorow, pretty late here. I agree, don't change a thing! 
Mary
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I can never seem to get any of my HDRs to look anything near this. I've tried 3 images, all at varying exposures and 1 RAW image. I've also tried Photomatix and photoshop but none of my results turn out anything like this. I super jealous
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I sent you a note, my friend.
Thanks so much for liking this enough to be jealous. The explanation of how it was created is in the above mentioned note, too.
I know you can do great things. You already do really good work. Just keep at it!
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I have to say this is quite well executed. The image itself initially struck me as a practice in hyper-realism done in blender or Maya - something that I think is only acheived in doing HDR, that sense of *POP* is wonderful in this, and while I think the subject matter itself tends to lend itself to that almost surreal quality (Who takes a photo of an empty garage??), the vibrancy of the colours makes this stand out. Quite good indeed. The only niggling detail that I see is that the colour tone of the door bleeds into the lower wall on the right (under the window) just a bit. Was this intentional?
Overall I think that you succeeded at your goal. With that said, I have to say that I know nothing of photography - my wife is the photographer of the family, but I know what I like, and I like this piece.
Thank you for sharing it with the community.
Tal
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Your comments and observations are greatly appreciated. The fact that you also like this image is wonderful. I always respect the thoughts and constructive comments that I am offered regardless of the subjective response of the viewer provided that they are offered with the intent to help. That said, I am most pleased when someone actually LIKES my work.
The surreal quality of the location and subject matter is precisely what makes this image worthy of manipulation, editing and post-processing in a workshop setting. Who would think of using this as a workshop? Not everyone, certainly. That is what causes the varied results of the different artists' attempts to be so interesting and valuable. We all go and check out each other's efforts to see how this HDR was perceived and executed by the different individuals who tried the workshop and we all come away having learned and been exposed to other points of view in the process.
I chose to add saturation to the colours in the image as I felt that the result would be a bit more 'soul' given the naked and barren quality of the overall composition. I like the effect although I don't know that it was technically a good choice.
The bleed was, in fact, not intentional. That will likely lead to me doing another edit of this image. I didn't notice it until I blew it up to a 1:1 aspect on screen to see it at full size. I tried several different algorithm settings and it kept happening. I think that the above mentioned over-saturation may be at least partly to blame.
GiMP managed to hide some of it but not all. We'll sow how it works out in the next round so keep your fingers crossed!
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughtful and well-considered comments!
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Thank-you so much for saying so! Greatly appreciated, considering it was your workshop.
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