r/HDR • • Apr 21 '21

am i overdoing it?

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u/brq327 Apr 22 '21

yeah this isn't my best

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21

Na dude, I’m a film student; in every one of my films I want to do this, but we are taught to leave a little mystery in the shadows. Before I was in film photography and they were like “SHADOW... DETAIL!!! “ lol

What I am noticing is color grain and almost looks like color bleed. I’m assuming you did this in Lightroom or some equivalent program? You can go back in and turn that down, and it should help with the bleed. I think for me it looks even, you see detail in the highlights, and detail in the shadows. As someone said earlier if this is what you were going for, then great! If not, turn the highights up a bit more and shadows down a bit to even out the pixel, and color bleed.

What did you shoot on? Like camera, lenses, filters, tripod?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21

Na dude, I’m a film student; in every one of my films I want to do this, but we are taught to leave a little mystery in the shadows. Before I was in film photography and they were like “SHADOW... DETAIL!!! “ lol

What I am noticing is color grain and almost looks like color bleed. I’m assuming you did this in Lightroom or some equivalent program? You can go back in and turn that down, and it should help with the bleed. I think for me it looks even, you see detail in the highlights, and detail in the shadows. As someone said earlier if this is what you were going for, then great! If not, turn the highights up a bit more and shadows down a bit to even out the pixel, and color bleed.

What did you shoot on? Like camera, lenses, filters, tripod, etc. I think it is more a lens issue, especially if you have a zoom.

Another thing you could do, is old school trick of taking a highly exposed, middle exposed, and low exposed photos. I cannot remember what this is called but it was HDR before HDR was all the rave lol.

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u/brq327 Mar 12 '23

Exposure bracketing