Just referring to the amateurs around here. I certainly appreciate all the input, insight and advise the professionals offer up!
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Just referring to the amateurs around here. I certainly appreciate all the input, insight and advise the professionals offer up!
ddbowdoin
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have to ask, do you get access to professional sports? I work with quite a few editorials here in New England and getting press passes for NFL / NHL games has been the death of me.
PhotoDave219
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Not anymore. I refuse to take the crappy pay thats coming with freelance sports.
ddbowdoin
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I used to use them as an excuse to the see the game ... I'd get there and every hole was reserved for other media sources. I'd only have a few chances to sneak in here and there.
PhotoDave219
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Everyone wants to photograph sports. I was lucky enough to get paid to do it as a staffer. These days? I refuse to take such little pay; $125 for an entire days work is not worth it. Photopass people make more.
ddbowdoin
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I did get to see some great games...
PhotoDave219
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I've seen some good games and I've seen many National Championships, thrill of victory, agony of defeat, etc. While its nice and I'm pretty damn good at it, there's always someone willing to be there and do it for free.
Not sure if you want the ghosts in your photo or not, but if you don't you can get the same type of HDR photo using only one raw photo you don't have to use multiple shots... the multiple shots will usually look better for shots that are still, but when there is movement the single shot will often be better... will also work better when you are shooting outdoors and the wind is blowing the trees and bushes around.This can definitely become addicting!
The software I'm using does have ghost removal - I found it after screwing around some more.
As far as using one shot - do you mean that you can process one shot to give it a HDR look or taking that one shot, then making different exposures of it, then processing the multiple exposures one normally would.
If you can process just one shot I would love to hear more. Thanks!
Yes you can use Photomatix with only 1 RAW file. You don't need multiple exposures. You wont be getting as good a results as you can get if you use 3 or more shots, but it will likely be close enough that no one will know the difference. You can do it several different ways. The easiest way is to just open the RAW file in Photomatix Pro and tone map it in that software. I'm at work or I would upload an example of what you can get with only 1 RAW photo, but I assure you it will have the same look as the photo you have only it will have sharper detail since it doesn't have multiple images where there will always be minor movement of things between shots.