Haunted Skies
Well, here's another installment of "The View From Innoventions" during the mini-meetup for no particular reason meetup at Disneyland two weeks ago...
This time we have a view of the Haunted Mansion sequence from the "Remember...Dreams Come True" fireworks display.
This HDR image was made from a single frame captured in RAW format. There are a few different ways to create a HDR image from a single exposure...
One way is to import the RAW image to Photomatix where the program can tonemap it, creating its best guess at filling in the missing light data.
I prefer a little more control over the image, and therefore choose to import the RAW file into Adobe Lightroom where the image was corrected for color balance, and three versions of the image is created, each with different exposure values from -2 to +2 EV. These three new images are then taken into Photomatix and processed like a "normal" bracket with follow-on processing in Photoshop.
You may wonder why I choose to create a HDR image out of a single exposure...
Honestly, after learning how to make HDR images work the way I want them to, it is pretty hard to be happy with a normal image anymore...I can take the HDR image and "open" or "close" the light and shadow detail to my tastes, along with color, contrast, and sharpness. In the case of these fireworks shots, I had actually planned to create a composite image based upon a HDR bracket taken just before the show started, me3rged with the fireworks exposure of choice. I have actually finished a couple of these images as composites and decided that they just don't capture the "mood" of the show as I remember it, or the spectacularly different lighting effects on Matterhorn. By choosing a single image, I am telling the story as it really happened. Having said that, I am never above using digital trickery to achieve what is in my mind's eye, haha!
Haunted Skies
Well, here's another installment of "The View From Innoventions" during the mini-meetup for no particular reason meetup at Disneyland two weeks ago...
This time we have a view of the Haunted Mansion sequence from the "Remember...Dreams Come True" fireworks display.
This HDR image was made from a single frame captured in RAW format. There are a few different ways to create a HDR image from a single exposure...
One way is to import the RAW image to Photomatix where the program can tonemap it, creating its best guess at filling in the missing light data.
I prefer a little more control over the image, and therefore choose to import the RAW file into Adobe Lightroom where the image was corrected for color balance, and three versions of the image is created, each with different exposure values from -2 to +2 EV. These three new images are then taken into Photomatix and processed like a "normal" bracket with follow-on processing in Photoshop.
You may wonder why I choose to create a HDR image out of a single exposure...
Honestly, after learning how to make HDR images work the way I want them to, it is pretty hard to be happy with a normal image anymore...I can take the HDR image and "open" or "close" the light and shadow detail to my tastes, along with color, contrast, and sharpness. In the case of these fireworks shots, I had actually planned to create a composite image based upon a HDR bracket taken just before the show started, me3rged with the fireworks exposure of choice. I have actually finished a couple of these images as composites and decided that they just don't capture the "mood" of the show as I remember it, or the spectacularly different lighting effects on Matterhorn. By choosing a single image, I am telling the story as it really happened. Having said that, I am never above using digital trickery to achieve what is in my mind's eye, haha!