Welcome to Strictly HDR!

Hi everyone -

Please allow me to be the first person to welcome you to Strictly HDR, a community-based forum dedicated to discussing High Dynamic Range Imagery (HDR/HDRI).

My name is Melanie and I am the administrator of this site. I started producing HDR images in June of 2008 and I'm addicted! I noticed that I had trouble finding a forum which was dedicated to HDR and HDR alone, so I created this forum.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Melanie

http://www.spiffypix.com

Thanks for letting me know about this site Melanie. I am Dave from Warwickshire, UK and have been into HDR for about 2 years but it really got intersting after Melanie posted a tutorial on another site

By name is Buzz and I amf rom Baltimore MD. USA I have been looking for a source of HDR information and saw this site mentioned on dpreview.com.
i have read Christian Bloch's "HDRI Handbook" and "High Dynamic Range Digital Photography" by Ferrell McCpllough. Bloch's book is chuck full of information --- While Mccollough'h book has some very good examples of Tonemapped HDR Files, but has too many that are way over the top when it comes to processing. (for me that is)
Hope this forum is a success!!!
Buzz

Hi! My name is Dave and I am very new to HDR photography. I hope this forum will help me to understand more about the process and photography in general.

Hi, my name is Neal, i am a press photographer based in Northern Ireland but love experimenting with new techniques. I am a Canon man not that i dont like Nikon !!!!!

HI,
I'm Dick, OTR truck driver. I also have a event photo business that specializes in dog herding events. I just recently got interested in HDR, we'll see what transpires.

Good luck with the site, I will be playing With HDR soon, I downloaded a free copy of Photomatix.....I have a HDR mode on my Pentax DSLR but it just gives a halo effect.......I guess this will be the place to learn...
RICHIT

Hi all. I am Denny and live in Overland Park, KS ( suburb of Kansas City ). I use a Canon 5D and enjoy most all types of photography. I do a lot of portraits but also enjoy landscapes. I have started to become interested in HDR and want to learn the best techniques. I have a downloaded demo copy of Photomatix which I am anxious to do more with. I most likely will purchase it in the near future. Look forward to learning from many of the folks here.

Hello, my name is Joe, I live in the Chicago area, I also shoot with the Cannon 5D, I'm really looking foward to learning all I can from this forum & creating HDR images.

Hi,

My name is Sylvia, I'm from France but usually live in BC, Canada (I say usually because I'm currently spending a few months in Thailand and Bali, skipping the winter ).
I write Photoshop tutorials for a "living".

Great idea, this forum! I love the HDR effect!
Neal, thanks for letting us know about this forum

Sylvia

Hi, I'm Angie, living in Dorset, S.W.England. Love photography and everything to do with it, use DynamicPhoto from MediaChance for 'real' HDR, Lucis Art and Topaz for pseudo HDR. I have been interested in HDR for around 2 years but only become serious in the last year or so and now use it a great deal but not usually very obviously so. But always keen to learn more skills and methods.

Thanks to Mike (Arkitekt) for the info on this forum.

My name is Lena & I live in B.C. Canada. I have a Canon S5IS and also an A590. Both loaded with CHDK. Though when I grow up I'd like a Canon 40D ;o)
I bought Photomatix a while back and Artizen just recently. I really enjoy the constant learning process of HDR. I'm not a member of any HDR groups so this is my first venture into meeting others with the same interests.

Thanks!
Lena

Hi,

I'm Carl and I'm an alcoholic!

Oops - sorry, wrong site.

I've been shooting HDR's for about 4 months and have recently upgraded to a Canon 450D with kit lens.

Interested to see what this site has to offer.

Carl.

I love your shot of the old truck http://photos.spiffypix.com/p99944723/h233325c4#h233325c4

Looks so much like my "Old Truck" http://richbaum.smugmug.com/gallery/6328611_CUzZu#410608829_hZLD7-L-LB

i really look forward to your forum...

Got to love HDR

Rich

Greetings from the Ozarks! My name is Mark and I have been using HDR for about 18 months. I have been using it almost exclusively to generate realistic or natural landscapes.
It is exciting to find a forum devoted exclusively to HDR!
Mark

Just heard of this site and hope to learn HDR which I have never done. Hello to everyone! Lake Carole

Greetings, all.

I am Wayne from Baltimore, MD.

I love to use HDR to simulate what my eye saw, since the camera's sensor is unable to do that (yet)



Click above for a larger version.

a very nice HDR HDRJunkie, your avatar is also excellent

Hi, my name is Antony, and I live in the little town of Leerdam in the Netherlands.

I've been taking pictures all my life, it started in the old days with b/w pictures in a d.i.y. darkroom. I have always used Pentax camera's, but I've also collected a range of old rangefinder camera's, like Zorki, Kiev, Minox and Leica. My first digital camera was a Sony Mavica, it used floppy disk for storage. It was only1.3 mp, but the images were remarkably sharp for those days. On my pbase galleries there are still some old Mavica pictures. Today I use a Pentax (surprise), and a Panasonic. A very underrated camera, with a superb Leica Lens, but it produces sometimes a little to much noise in the higher ISO range. But as a old fashioned photographer, I sometimes like grain in pictures.

This forum was brought to my attention by Melanie, the administrator. She had seen some of my hdr pictures on pbase, and liked them.
So that's why I joined. I hope to learn something from members here.

Please feel free to visit my pbase galleries,
Antony
http://www.pbase.com/antony_swidersk

Xrider wrote:a very nice HDR HDRJunkie, your avatar is also excellent

Thanks. Your avatar is also excellent.

Hey there Mel,,, This is awesome,,, So glad to be a part of this site. I can tell you since I have started shooting HDR it is so loved by the people I share my photo's with, I'm so greatfull for your help...

I'm so happy that everyone is here! Glad to see Antony made it over from PBase and Tack, I'm glad you're here. Glad I was able to help. This is quickly turning into a great little community...

Melanie

Hi, I'm Marianne and I just joined the group. Hope to learn a lot about HDR.

Great job on the site Melanie, you have been busy!
I use bracketing whenever on the tripod but have not played a lot with HDR as of yet.. lots of inspirational shots in here already to get the mind going tho
It's a very interesting subject and I'm glad to see a forum for it.

Cheers
Pat Boomer