How not to do really fabulous ‘expanded dynamic range’ images in photo shop.
I saw that earlier.
How on earth he’s managed to write more than one book and hold seminars I dont know.
Take a look at his website too 
omg, thats arse.
heres a better way…
Step one. Mask out windows.
Step two. place masked out windows
Step Three. Done
I should write a book!
Funny…I looked at this a while ago and thought I must be missing something as it seemed kinda strange to me.
Yeh I feel a bit confused by it all.
That image at the end is… well… AWFUL!
He looks very smug in his picture I must note… I know I wouldn’t be!
LOL, whats with the goofy glow around the couches and plant? :lol:
Ambiance, of course. :lol:
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he’s trying to show something like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickmann/sets/72157594417136079/
but theres a ton of things that you can do to make it work nicer lol.
interesting. after i got past my initial horror, i started to really like em.
those r pretty damn nice…but from that tutorial to those its an huge leap imo!!
:lol:
This is just the beginning. HDRI photo manipulation in the hands of the average user is going to yield some ugly results. :lol:
you would know.. bwahahaha :lol:
No I’m not that advanced yet. I’m like HDR-WHAT?
geez…way to deflate my joke and stuff… 
those dickmann set images are interesting - kinda unfortunate name there..
but what is odd is that a friend of mine does architectural engravings for a living (fine art prints of buildings) and these ultra tweaked images remind me a lot of his prints - its almost as if a precision artist does his own mental tone mapppings to create something like these hyper realistic illusions
(my friend spends about three months on a single image so way different timescale)
From what I remember of this, you probably need more than 2 exposures to get the correct look.
Here is something that may be worthwhile if you were interested in doing this sort of thing alot: http://www.hdrsoft.com/
Also…why couldn’t one simply use the blending modes in Photoshop to get similar(better?) results?
There are a few free tone mapping softwares available recently, I’ll find the links when I have a moment.
Photomatix:
verly lovely plug, as long as the sorce is good 
It just occurred to me that this sort of thing is probably the “special camera technology” that it’s rumored they’re using on the new Speed Racer movie. I’ve heard things like “everything is in focus” and “they’re doing some sort of frame layering”. The colors in the trailer are super saturaturated so I bet exposure blending is what’s really going on.