HDR from a moving vehicle

Graham King

Graham King

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Photomatix was able to remove some of the ghosting but there's still a lot. I knew there would be when I was shooting it but it looks cool anyway so I just kept it up.

I am ready to be ripped apart by the DVXuser community so... Let me know what you think!

 
Seriously cool! I don't mind the little ghosting there!
What camera did you shoot this with?

If you would shoot with a Nikon D3, you would have no ghosting at all! That thing is a machine gun!
 
Looks great. You should break that up into files for each city and sell it as stock. That's the kind of thing people buy. I think you can sell stuff pretty easily with istockphoto and such.
 
Thanks all.

@Phil I did this with a 60D mostly. Used a 5D2 for Denver and Oakland. I'd love to do it with a Nikon. Those things are blazing fast and I thought I read you and do bracketing with ±7 stops instead of the 2 and 3 the 5D2 and 60D offer.

@Dave I've though of that. I think I'd want to really perfect it and get rid of the window reflections for one thing.
 
Graham, the Nikon can do 9 I think!

If you have a 550D, you can do 9 with magic lantern as well. Bloom told me that you don't need more than 3 though.
 
D7000 does 6 continuous till card is full...
Most of the high ends have a buffer and fill up between 20-40. For the Canons the 7D will do 9 like a champ. Then the Nikons D300s/D700 (with grip) and obviously the D3 will all shoot fast.
Of course no one would shoot continuous for the full road trip... but just fyi.
Also, you can do good HDRs with just 2 exposures... saving time and reducing ghosting.
The 3 and 5 HDRs are great, but over kill for most video needs.
 
daihard said:
Also, you can do good HDRs with just 2 exposures... saving time and reducing ghosting.
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Is there a way to do that in camera or would you just skip the middle exposure in Photomatix? Maybe I'll give that a whirl to see if it makes a big difference.
 
There is no way to do 2 Exposures in camera as far as I know. You wont get as good results as with 3 exposures anyway

Here is my latest:

 
Ye, my Nikon D700 does. And so do many cameras.
Usually its 1 normal exposure and then 1 under or over exposure.
Just set the initial exposure to be under... and the 2nd exposure to be over. Then you have 2.

I apologies for not posting a photo of this feature, but just google a search for 2 step bracketing features... or I guess go here: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/blended_exposures.shtml

Anyhow, most of the Sony and Canons that are doing "in camera" HDRs are only taking 2 shots.
Another point... 14bit RAW images will give you enough latitude to do effective HDRs with just 1 RAW. Its only the extremes that 2 or more exposures will be needed, like sunsets.
2 is more then enough for a 1080p time-lapse.
To add... HDR video coming from using 2 cameras and a beam splitter, ie: http://vimeo.com/14821961 is just 1 camera set under and another over.

Sure 3 is great, but for the most part its not necessary. 2 looks amazing in most cases...
Heck I won the FIRST Panasonic G1 at its launch (Diggnation and Panasonic competition) a few years ago with an HDR photo using only jpegs and only 2 exposures!... cuz the 3rd was causing to much ghosting in the merged image.
 
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