High Res Photography Thread

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:20 pm

One more shot.

Argetlam · Post by **Argetlam** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:57 pm

Here's another one. It was 21 images automatically stitched and then I cropped it. I think it looks pretty cool

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:07 pm

My original 24 image panorama with zero distortion didn't cooperate with Autopano, unfortunately.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:40 am

Got A nice shot of Rat's Nest, 3 other ones coming soon. Also A shot of Cortana

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:02 pm

(last one has hardly any prevalence, mind the trees)

Was able to capture at five exposures for both of those images, then composited into a 24bit HDR image, then re-compressed down to 8bit for posting. Really captures some nice ranges.

Was able to make the shadows a bit less drastic by taking Nick's advice on updating the process.

I really enjoy the range it's able to give prevalence to.

For reference, here is the actual in game one-pass one-exposure screen shot.

The only time my final image ever enters Photoshop is to re-save it as a jpg. Otherwise it's dealt with as a 24bit .tif. I didn't do anything else... It wouldn't make any sense. I'd be trying to expand on data that doesn't exist.
i.e. brightening a shadow by turning black to grey. Ick. Just not sensible...

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:44 pm

Veegie, I HATE YOU.
I post some High Def shots... no reply for a week, then you post some shots and everyone replies.
/jks

I like the beach shot kind off and the rest are nice, but I don't really like how you edited them. No offense.
I have a shot also.

Anetheon · Post by **Anetheon** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:26 am

Well it's not as good as Veegie's pics but something right? lol
^_^

Original Pic

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:49 pm

I never released these so I thought now would be an alright time.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:43 pm

Thanks Scotty, I wish I could have gettin it at even a higher resolution but I couldn't. (It would have taken 100 zoomed shots, atleast.)
Here's a pano I took yesterday after I was fooling around in forge.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:12 pm

Yea when I heard of the idea I thought it would be way to hard, but after a single try I found it was really easy. Only thing is that I've taken over 3 different shots that I was literally 1-5 shots away from being complete but I ran out of space, so those are dead.
Here's my last shot, but it has some bending.

Now I have no idea why, but that shot bended.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:08 am

Yea, I experimented with that shot, seeing if I could get all the action in, I guess not.
This shot has got to be my favorite. It took exactly 50 screenshots to produce that.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:47 pm

Lol took a little long to load eh?

Got another one, resembles my Halo 3 SSOTW Entry.

Anetheon · Post by **Anetheon** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:56 am

Woo 2 days till Christmas

Happy Holidays

This was actually from a real game my friend was is the blue guy (lol he didnt die

)

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:32 pm

There will be a writeup in a bit.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:46 pm

(yes I know the tone-mapping is a bit exaggerated, sorry

)

Another thing to scratch off the list.

But I've found a way to perfectly calculate and process Depth of Field, in engine. Through a few loopholes, an app is possible to automate the process.
Pictured above is manual application after the HDR process.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:43 am

A bit less shallow DoF from 7 different levels.

Anetheon · Post by **Anetheon** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:27 pm

I'm also interested in this "App" that is coming out
^_^

V0Lt4Ge · Post by **V0Lt4Ge** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:14 pm

Just realized that these weren't just stock screenshots and moved 'em here. >_>

The first is pretty distorted, I know.

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:08 pm

I really like this shot.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:04 pm

No special procedures done this time, sorry.
Just a small-scale panorama.