How do you get you photos to look like this?

[PlutosPalace]

How do you get you photos to look like this? Is there a setting on some cameras that give this sort of color "pop" or is it a filter? Or is it done in post with Paintshop or Photoshop?

(Obviously not my photo. Just using this as reference.)

 

[wdwmagic]

It is done with a combination of techniques. First up - a photographer who knows what they are doing, a tripod, a digital SLR, a wide angle lens, and post processing done with a technique called HDR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging)

 

[PlutosPalace]

I was hoping that there was a special feature on a camera that gave this color result. A friend of mine has a crappy iPhone with an app called Camera+ that does this exact same thing all in one shot and they look pretty close to this good. But I hate iPhones so was hoping for the option in an actual camera.

 

[wdwmagic]

I was hoping that there was a special feature on a camera that gave this color result. A friend of mine has a crappy iPhone with an app called Camera+ that does this exact same thing all in one shot and they look pretty close to this good. But I hate iPhones so was hoping for the option in an actual camera.

Nope unfortunately it is good old fashioned hard work

The iPhone version won't be remotely close to being that good either. Perhaps when viewed at postage stamp size - but not when viewed at a reasonable size.

 

[CP_alum08]

Nope unfortunately it is good old fashioned hard work

The iPhone version won't be remotely close to being that good either. Perhaps when viewed at postage stamp size - but not when viewed at a reasonable size.

Amen! Why they put 5, 7, 8mp in camera phones I will never understand. Weel, I guess I do understand why, it lures people who don't understand cameras into believing it is a good camera! But I don't agree with it.

For your question, getting that much color out a camera is impossible. There has to be post-processing (photoshop) done to get that amount of saturation. Your friend's app will probably do all this for her, but it's the same idea.

 

[PlutosPalace]

Thanks. I am familiar with Photoshop and Paintshop but by no means an expert. I'll look into how to accomplish this.

And I never really care how many MP the camersra has as long as it can possibly print 8x10 if I need it to. Otherwise I keep it tp around 2-4MP since that should be more than sufficient to make prints from.

 

[Monorail Lime]

Take several identically-framed photographs at different exposure levels and mash them together in Photoshop until the result is shiny enough for the average flickr user to drool over.

Or, buy a new cheapo P&S camera with an HDR mode and get almost the same result with a lot less work.

 

[NowInc]

SOME cameras do auto HDR (the Nikon D5100 for example), but you will get more control over the results if you do it yourself. Most DSLRs (all canons and most nikons) have an AEB (auto bracket) feature..which will take 3-5 photos at different EV values for you..which can be used for making HDRs. Personally I use Photomatix when I do this technique, as I found the photoshop function to be not as intuitive.

http://www.hdrsoft.com/ <--photomatix

 

[WDWFigment]

That's actually my photo, and with the exception of the lower left and right corners (where there are really bright lights in the fountain), it's a single exposure.

Here's the photo's actual Flickr page with some more explanation in the caption/comments: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombricker/4484580346/

 

[nngrendel]

That's actually my photo, and with the exception of the lower left and right corners (where there are really bright lights in the fountain), it's a single exposure.

Here's the photo's actual Flickr page with some more explanation in the caption/comments: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombricker/4484580346/

Thats pretty cool. You just masked out everything except for your blown out highlights in the -2 shot. You sort of did a slight "sort of HDR Toning" on those highlights. :ROFLOL: Is this correct??

I have used masking on levels and exposures but haven't tried some of my HDR shots.

 

[PlutosPalace]

That's actually my photo, and with the exception of the lower left and right corners (where there are really bright lights in the fountain), it's a single exposure.

Here's the photo's actual Flickr page with some more explanation in the caption/comments: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombricker/4484580346/

Had I known who it belonged to I would posted that but I found it by Googling it.

 

[WDWFigment]

It's a single-exposure (non-HDR) with the exception of those two corners. For those corners, I masked in a different exposure. There is absolutely no tone-mapping or any HDR processing done to the image at all.

It has been processed, but it's not tone-mapped or otherwise "HDR."