Motorcycles in HDR - Post Yours Here!

[zgfiredude]

Originally Posted by Katoom119

Very cool! I love the reflection in the face shield of the upcoming road and yet you can just see through to your face. Really cool shot and bike.

[jrou111]

[BarKnee]

[dave6253]

Time for a strip tease?

[Unstable Rider]

I do like the black n white shots myself

[crazyman]

Nice B&W shots. I find myself 'converting some of my photos to black and white just to see the effect.

[Voluhzia]

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[Mike M]

Devils Tower and my old 2002 K12LT

[Unstable Rider]

Delta Dining Car, 10 miles south of Iron River, Wisconsin.

[toddelof]

Originally Posted by Unstable Rider

Delta Dining Car, 10 miles south of Iron River, Wisconsin.

Nice,....especially since I was there too!

[Unstable Rider]

Originally Posted by toddelof

Nice,....especially since I was there too!

Get a life.... surfing ADV on Christmas?

Oh yeah, me too.

[jdgretz]

Originally Posted by Unstable Rider

Delta Dining Car, 10 miles south of Iron River, Wisconsin.

That is a very cool shot. Done with layers?

jdg

[Duall]

Originally Posted by Sauerkrautman

Scotland, last year:




Regards,
Richard

Is that an MZ Trophy? :o

[Unstable Rider]

Originally Posted by jdgretz

That is a very cool shot. Done with layers?

jdg

Shout out to JDG, thanks for the compliment and the question at the same time.

Layers?

Well, here goes. I was digging in some past photos and found one I wanted to buff out a bit. I ran it through a program called PhotoMatix Pro. Typically, you would load three or more images into PhotoMatix that were exposed a stop or two high and low of what you camera feels is dead on.

As I did not have a three shot bracketed burst to play with, I saved my original untouched image in PhotoShop-- three times, and titled it Image, A, B, and C. I loaded those three into PhotoMatix. PhotoMatix smells them and says, hey dude, these were all exposed at the same uhh, exposure. So I let the software "alter" the exposure after the fact, going about a stop and a half high, same low, and leave one dead on or so. The end result, is a pseudo attempt at HDR. There are many brothers here that have better examples, from better cameras too.

After PhotoMatix, I returned to PhotoShop with my HDR -like image. In PhotoShop I "desaturated" my image, which removes the color and flips it black and white. After desaturation, I jacked it up to like 600% viewing size, and "hand painted" or hand brushed back in the colors that were removed, using the history brush tool in PhotoShop. After that, a bit of contrast, hue and brightness and you end up with either something you like, or a MUDPIE.

Guess I got lucky with this one

Again, I would not know what I know if our brothers here had not TAUGHT ME from scratch. Many of these other fellows really rock in the HDR department here, so hats off to them first.

Thanks,

Paul

[conchscooter]

An astonishing picture popped out of my Android phone.