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CJSutcliffe — High Dynamic Range Gronk
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Published: 2010-03-08 23:54:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 5000; Favourites: 113; Downloads: 149
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Yes, it's my first HDR!
Using a series of 5 photos taken at the Severn Valley Railway just this past weekend of the shed pilot at Bridgnorth, and merged together and mapped using Photomatix Pro. What is everyones opinion on this?
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The diesel locomotive is somewhat like that in real life and I believe that was his point in this photo.
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Once again my watching of TTTE (Thomas the Tank Engine) has impacted by views on certain Locomotives and this is one of them. But in a good way. This was one of the few Diesel engines I didnt hate hands down. I like that you got a close up and detailed shot but the angle kinda is disagreeable with me personally. You tried to get the Side and Front views combined. How ever the front seems 'squashed' for lack of a better word. Though the Sides and Rear are less eyesores then the Hazard Stripe grill that is the front
Not bad. Not Bad at all
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High-dynamic-range photographs are achieved by capturing multiple standard photographs using exposure bracketing, and then merging them into an HDR image. Digital photographs are often encoded in a camera's raw image format, because 8 bit JPEG encoding doesn't offer enough values to allow fine transitions.
This is not true with this image as it is in JPEG Format and has lost little in the conversion process apart from some depth which is only to be expected.
It is quite clear that this has been done the correct way by using five separate exposures instead of altering a single image, this is evident by the blurring of the foliage which only adds to the image by making the gronk stand out more and add's the depth that was lost in the jpeg formatting.
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and Diesel, and Arry, and Bert, and Paxton, and Sidney..
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Great picture! I can virtually hear it ticking over!
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it is a diesel-electric. The class 04 locos are hydraulic.
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Nice but a little too much. I love HDR, but sometimes it does not real, I think keeping more shadows is what is needed. If i say it looks like someone has been sprinkling talc everywhere if you get my meaning.
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Nice. Even though I'm a North American Railfan, mainly due to me living in Canada, I like the Class 08s.
Over here, they would probably be classed as a "critter", a smaller diesel locomotive that is used for shunting railcars in large industrial sites such as millyards, steel plants and railcar factories, areas where a larger switcher would neither be necessary nor practical.
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Ooh, I like this a lot. Having read the detailed critiques, I seem to feel much the same way: that a lot of HDR is over-the-top and it gets (frankly) rather tedious after a while. This isn't: it's subtler but (I think) more effective. Not by any means a loco I'd drop everything to go and see, but I think it looks absolutely right here.
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Thank you very much.
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At this point, I wasn't sure whether it was either a HD photo or a very convincing CGI Model...but the end results have had me in awe 
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I have never tried HDR, may do one day. I do like this photo.
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very nice... Im looking forward to see more of this stuff 
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Well done. I think you should try doing this again...and again!
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I think its mint, but i love it because of it being a Shunter. Shunters have always and will always be my favorite train! Such a cool looking piece of equipment!
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Nicely done, I think HDR needs to be handled gently and not over done. Think you hit it beautifully here. Well done.
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I must admit when I got the software I spent maybe half an hour after the photos were merged getting it to this stage. Previously I'd tried in Photoshop, but not even half the effect seen here was given in CS3...
I'm glad you like it, thank you as always for your comment.
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Your are always welcome, its a really nice image. Nicely edited my friend.
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i thought it looked like a game screenshot at first. thats awesome
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Indeed, shots of Saturday to come as I process them.
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Very nice, and highlights the grime and worn appearance of this workhorse
Sorry, rant over 
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Well as would I and as would anyone who donated a perfectly good loco for use, only to see it chopped and cannibalised. I'd probably have half a mind to take action against them for such a notion, even if it is only a diesel... 
Feedback is appreciated. Thank you.
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Personally I want my own Sentinel (the 6-coupled design idealy), don't know where I'd park it, but I still want one
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I'd have a nice 08, or one I could do up. There's one on Springs Bank sidings in Wigan that I've got my eye on...
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To park on the front of your Pacer?
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In case it fails, which with it being a Pacer, it will, a lot...
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It can go about as fast as a Pacer can anyway so why not?
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