I’m going to show you some simple steps to give you the idea of HDRI. And to differencing the different exposure picture merge into HDRI before and after for you to compare.

Here are the set of 3 original different exposure picture taken from my friend Sony Alpha 200 DSLR camera (Thanks to Thoh).

Step 1

Go to File > Automate > Merge HDR

Step 2

Click Browse and select the pictures then press OK

Step 3

Adjust the white according your preferable and set to 8 bits. (This is to save it as JPEG format later)

Step 4

Done! You now can save the picture any format you want or start edit the photo with other effect.

This is the simple example what I did add with some effect.

Try this with your photo and see how it looks like.

1. Open the picture you wish edit.

2. Second duplicate the picture.

3. Now you see there are two layers of picture.

4. Select the one at the top layer, move your mouse select image at the tool bar, from the drop down list select “Adjustment”. Again from the drop list select the “Channel Mixer”.

5. The “Channel Mixer” windows will pop out. From there tick the “Monochrome” and use the setting as below.

6. Once finish click ok

7. Then from the layer select the one you just finish with the channel mixer and set it “Overlay”.

8. Now you can merge the layer together and export it.

9. Congratulation you just finish a simple yet nice polarizer effect.

To show how cool is that these are some of the examples I did

Try this with any of your picture, to spice up more you can try with other filtering effect and add with polarizer effect. Use your creativeness. Personally I prefer this effect use on those sky view and open ground nature..

Thanks for reading it. Try it!!! You might like it. Any question drop me a message.

Lately I’ve been poison by my colleague about getting a DSLR camera… kanasai… something that I should avoid but the force is too strong. Why izzit so different with ordinary digital camera that most people use? Well it capture better picture QUALITY!!!

For your information is not cheap getting a DSLR camera, market price range is around RM1.7k ~ RM 2.5k. And that’s only for entry level, when you go up to pro you will realize how pain it is. Why say so? Hmm… let me tell you now. Getting know how to use a DSLR camera is not easy, there are many things to control like ISO, shutter speed, aperture priority and etc… Until now I still catch no ball… is better to try out by getting a DSLR camera. Read from many forums and heard from many SIFU and they only tell you the same thing… “It requires a lot of practice, experience and money too.” When I say money, are not just you buying a DSLR camera that it… YOUR camera needs friends, friends like lens, flash and other accessories.

What is the purpose getting a DSLR camera? Feel free to check out those pictures taken using DSLR camera and you know how good it is. There are many things you can play with different types of lens, some of the common one like zoom lens, wide angle, marco and many more. Personally I love the effect done using fish eye lens. It something looks like this.

Cool leh… something that normal compact can’t do.

Taking good pictures is not always about mega pixels. Sometime I feel that mega pixels more like pushing the market. So what actually mega pixels do? Is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but also to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays. Unless you really want to print out a huge poster size photo then the bigger the better. Other than that is all about the effects and image quality I mention above.

The DSLR is in a whole different league of its own. In terms of image quality-wise and the ability to focus so quick and so good. Is good to have a good camera to practice become a better photographer. Personally I love good picture, many time when I go travel I hate myself not having any good camera with me to snap a few shot

Money is the biggest issues… cause I don’t have any… Damn…

Want to know more about DSLR camera?
Visit

http://www.dpreview.com/

Some popular DSLR camera in the market:
Nikon
Canon
Olympus
Pentax
Sony