Good photo HDR synthesis creates creative dream stealing space

What do you think of when you see this beautiful picture of the fallen leaves on the Swan Lake? Some people will answer that the film is exposed multiple times. Multiple exposures will indeed have a similar effect, but do you think that two completely different beautiful scenery, the fallen leaves in autumn and the swan in the lake, will appear at the same place and time at the same time? Some people will say that this effect can be achieved by using a projector and taking pictures in kind.

Not to mention that the projector is inconvenient to carry around, and its imaging effect is far less real than that of real scenes or advanced display screens; Some people will choose to use PS, but they don't know that there are still people waiting for PS to open and run in front of the computer. Bian Xiao has finished this perfect composite photo.

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Strange swans are intertwined with fallen leaves.

This is a creative use of HDR's compositing function to take good photos. Different from the traditional application of HDR in the past, it combines multiple pictures with different exposures into a true color image, which is the opposite. Combining two completely different pictures according to HDR mode has such a magical and dreamy effect.

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Synthetic? Dream HDR? Two original photos

Computer common sense

Some experienced photographers in China think HDR is meaningless, because for mature photographers? Not novel? And the way of synthesis has long been? Tired of playing? And also advise young photographers? What are you still playing? . How to find a more fashionable way to play without trying? In fact, there are many ways to play HDR. If young people are tired of playing, I am afraid it will take a long time.

The above two pictures are the materials that Bian Xiao used to synthesize. For how to choose this alternative HDR material, Bian Xiao wants to give some tips to friends who are trying to play a new genre here:

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The two selected images must be drawn with the same length, width and size, which is a necessary condition for synthesizing HDR (post-completion is also acceptable).

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Generally speaking, there are two pictures, one as the main body and the other as the color rendering.

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Try to choose pictures with simple pictures, and pictures with too much content will confuse the synthesis effect.

Knowing these tips, you can use good photos to synthesize.

The first step is to open a good photo and open a big picture. We need to make sure that the length, width and size of the two pictures are exactly the same. Click? In the menu bar below. Cutting/correcting? , you can directly enter the desired aspect ratio on the right, and you can get the image with the required border size in one step.

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first step

The second step is to formally synthesize HDR. Select from the menu bar? HDR？ , choose two pieces of material. In the usual HDR synthesis, in order to make up for the camera shake and environmental factors during shooting, we will check? Alignment? And then what? Looking for ghosts? What does this function, here, want? Dream effect? Using what's called. Ghosts? , so we only check? Alignment? . Click? Start? .

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Second step

The third step, after synthesis, choose? High contrast? Tone mapping makes the picture more harmonious and soft. Ordinary HDR photography is dedicated to color or three-dimensional themes, while metropolises use good photos? Natural reduction? Or? Rich in color? Local tone mapping based on; What we are pursuing here is the fusion of swans and fallen leaves, so? High contrast? The global tone mapping method is easier to make the colors and lines of the two pictures more uniform and soft.

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Third step

After three steps, you can see golden leaves sprinkled on the mirror-like lake and the snow-white feathers of swans. The luxury and intensity brought by the colors of nature set off the nobleness and beauty of the love between the swans. The trunk of the red leaves below is reflected on the lake like a reflection. If you look closely, it isn't. The perfect interweaving of the two pictures is like two different time axes crossing and shuttling, blurred and dreamy. I have to say, this kind of beauty can only be seen in dreams, and now, you can cast one yourself with HDR of good photos? Inception? Los Angeles.

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After HDR synthesis? Inception?