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	<title>Daniel Korzeniewski Photography &#187; HDR</title>
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		<title>The Corvette at Route 66</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/07/13/the-corvette-at-route-66/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>korzeniewskidaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keep going back to the images in the recent trip to Arizona, this place in the middle of Route 66 was a great stop with lots of opportunities. This particular was taken with the Nikon D700 and the 14-24 2.8 lens. This is an HDR image made of 5 bracketed shots.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keep going back to the images in the recent trip to Arizona, this place in the middle of Route 66 was a great stop with lots of opportunities.</p>
<p>This particular was taken with the Nikon D700 and the 14-24 2.8 lens. This is an HDR image made of 5 bracketed shots.<a href="http://dk.photoshelter.com/img-show/I0000Mt_4sepueJQ"><img src="http://www.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000Mt_4sepueJQ/s/590" border="0" alt="ROUTE 66, AZ - JUN 24: Convertible Corvette parked in Hackberry Arizona General Store taken June 24 of 2010. This is a very popular tourist destination. (Daniel Korzeniewski)" /></a></p>
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		<title>Grand Canyon Sunset</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/07/07/grand-canyon-sunset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still working on the images of the last trip to Grand Canyon, and I&#8217;ll post a gallery soon, in the meantime I wanted to post this image that I really like. I shoot this image at sunset from Lipan Point on Desert View Drive, I believe this is one the best view points to catch [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still working on the images of the last trip to Grand Canyon, and I&#8217;ll post a gallery soon, in the meantime I wanted to post this image that I really like.</p>
<p>I shoot this image at sunset from Lipan Point on Desert View Drive, I believe this is one the best view points to catch the sunset, as you can also see the river from there.</p>
<p>The image is an HDR made of 5 different exposures, as always combined in Photomatix Pro, and finished in Lightroom and Photoshop CS5.</p>
<p><a href="http://archive.danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/image/I0000NAPDNR4cOz4"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-249" title="View of Grand Canyon and River" src="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/files/2010/07/View_of_Grand_Canyon_and_River-590x391.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="391" /></a></p>
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		<title>300 Miles of Desert</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/07/01/300-miles-of-desert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>korzeniewskidaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this place in the Arizona portion of Route 66, it is called Hackberry, they have an old General Store, and lots of abandoned cars and all type of memorabilia. This particular image was taken on one of the side buildings, I just loved the rusted signs. I&#8217;ll post more pictures of this place soon.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Found this place in the Arizona portion of Route 66, it is called Hackberry, they have an old General Store, and lots of abandoned cars and all type of memorabilia.</p>
<p>This particular image was taken on one of the side buildings, I just loved the rusted signs. I&#8217;ll post more pictures of this place soon.</p>
<p><a href="http://archive.danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/image/I0000H7krkBoxIp8"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-244" title="300 Miles of Desert" src="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/files/2010/07/300_Miles_of_Desert-590x391.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="391" /></a></p>
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		<title>Route 66</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/06/30/route-66/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>korzeniewskidaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just came back from a weeklong trip to the Grand Canyon. I drove from Las Vegas to the South Rim in Arizona, taking portions of the historic Route 66. The places are amazing with plenty of shooting opportunities all around. I took these 2 images right off Route 66, both are in different places, but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just came back from a weeklong trip to the Grand Canyon. I drove from Las Vegas to the South Rim in Arizona, taking portions of the historic Route 66. The places are amazing with plenty of shooting opportunities all around.</p>
<p>I took these 2 images right off Route 66, both are in different places, but of similar content, if you look around carefully you can find &#8220;beautiful&#8221; abandoned buildings, just need to go off-road and in the dirt a bit.</p>
<p>I processed both images using 5 different shots, HDR was made in Photomatix Pro and post processed in Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5.</p>
<p><a href="http://archive.danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/image/I0000cgtxRdGpdVc"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-237" title="Route 66 house" src="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/files/2010/06/Route_66_house-590x391.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="391" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://archive.danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/image/I0000g3odsu_jchU"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-240" title="Abandoned barn in Route 66" src="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/files/2010/06/Abandoned_barn_in_Route_66-590x391.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="391" /></a></p>
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		<title>A quick visit to the Miami Railroad Museum</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/05/05/a-quick-visit-to-the-miami-railroad-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>korzeniewskidaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 4 weeks ago I went to the Railroad Museum, here in Miami. I really loved the place; there are plenty of possibilities and awesome shoot opportunities. The subject was ideal to try some HDR, like always I use HDR to try to show the image in a more realistic way trying to capture a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About 4 weeks ago I went to the Railroad Museum, here in Miami. I really loved the place; there are plenty of possibilities and awesome shoot opportunities. The subject was ideal to try some HDR, like always I use HDR to try to show the image in a more realistic way trying to capture a wider dynamic range and detail. That realistic look helps me to show the images the way I feel it when I was there. So, this is the gallery that contains some of my favorite pictures of that day, enjoy…</p>
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		<title>My Caribbean Beach picture wins 1st Place at SFCC</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/03/23/my-caribbean-beach-pictures-wins-1st-place-at-sfcc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>korzeniewskidaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This picture just won 1st place in the March competition of the South Florida Camera Club, so is now part of my favorite collection.  The SFCC is a great group of photography enthusiasts ranging in skill from beginner to advance professionals. So if you live in the area you should consider to join us, our [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This picture just won 1st place in the March competition of the <a href="http://southfloridacameraclub.com/2010/03/18/meeting-minutes-for-18-march-2010/">South Florida Camera Club</a>, so is now part of my favorite collection.  The <a href="http://southfloridacameraclub.com/">SFCC</a> is a great group of photography enthusiasts ranging in skill from beginner to advance professionals. So if you live in the area you should consider to join us, our meetings are really fun and the group awesome, so if you are interested check it out by clicking <a href="http://southfloridacameraclub.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="attachment wp-att-139" href="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/03/23/my-caribbean-beach-pictures-wins-1st-place-at-sfcc/beach-in-nassau-morning/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-139" title="Beach in Nassau Morning" src="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/files/2010/03/20100120_Nassau_0009-590x390.jpg" alt="" width="590" height="390" /></a></p>
<h2>My Faves Gallery</h2>
<p>This gallery contains just the collection of my favorite  images posted in the blog, there is no particular reason or specific theme, I just like them so I decided to create a gallery to gather them together.</p>
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		<title>Vegas Baby!!!</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/03/06/vegas-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I went to Vegas, this morning looking in my archives I found this picture collecting dust, I processed and I am loving it. Hopefully you enjoy it as well.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About a year ago I went to Vegas, this morning looking in my archives I found this picture collecting dust, I processed and I am loving it. Hopefully you enjoy it as well.</p>
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		<title>Boost your Microstock income with HDR photos</title>
		<link>http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/2010/01/14/boost-your-microstock-income-with-hdr-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:07:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>korzeniewskidaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos can be a great way to increase your potential income from microstock sites, in fact some of my best seller images are HDR. I know HDR it’s a very controversial subject among photographers, just mention it in any forum and you’ll have very intense discussions. If you look around for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos can be a great way to increase your potential income from microstock sites, in fact some of my best seller images are HDR.</p>
<p>I know HDR it’s a very controversial subject among photographers, just mention it in any forum and you’ll have very intense discussions. If you look around for HDR images, generally speaking, you’ll find and overuse of the technique with big tendencies to a hyper-realistic, weir-dish look, but this is not always the case.</p>
<p>I believe that beyond any controversy, in certain situations, this technique can make a photograph stand out by displaying a wider tonal range, helping to reveal more details in the shadows and highlights, thus, achieving a more realistic and vivid look.</p>
<p>The key factor here is to stay away from the “special effect” look, and just create a natural image, there are several ways to approach it but this is what worked for me:</p>
<p><strong>Tripod</strong>: I always use a tripod, no matter what, and also put my camera in mirror up mode, this prevent of almost any camera shack.</p>
<p><strong>Exposure</strong>: I always shoot in RAW, 5 bracketed shots, usually 1 stop apart, and I expose to the right, or for the highlights, being carefully of have enough information and details in the shadows and highlights, and covering the full dynamic range of the scene. This is one of the most important parts, because if you don’t have enough information in the highlights you’ll end up with noisy images, especially in the dark and shadow areas.</p>
<p><strong>Tone Mapping:</strong> I use <a href="http://hdrsoft.com/" target="_blank">Photomatix Pro</a>, to combine and generate the HDR and then tone-map the shot, I do it directly from the RAW files, then in the “Details Enhancer” panel I just play with the strength slider and set smooth to low, I don’t touch saturation or contrast here because Photomatix is not good at it. Then I save the image as a TIFF, at that point I still have a very flat and dull image with no contrast, but that’s OK.</p>
<p><strong>Final Touch:</strong> I get the image into Lightroom and make the final touches by adding contrast, black, and clarity, I also play with vibrancy and use saturation in only some selective channels. If needed I go to Photoshop for final touch up, and use Dfine, by Nik Software to eliminate noise where needed. So pretty much these last steps are very similar to my standard post-processing workflow.</p>
<p>It took me some time, trials and errors to discover what was the best way to get HDR images with a real look, and if you want to get those images to sell and get accepted in all the major sites, they need to look real and not overdone, soon you’ll discover that a properly processed HDR image has great potential to be a big seller in your port.</p>
<p>That’s all for now folks, more to come soon, in the meantime get out there and shoot something….</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-89" title="The Colors of Caminito" src="http://danielkorzeniewskiphoto.com/files/2010/01/The-Colors-of-Caminito.jpg" alt="The Colors of Caminito" width="585" height="392" /></p>
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<h2>Incrementá tus ingresos de Microstock con fotos HDR</h2>
<p>Las imagines HDR (Alto rango dinámico) pueden tener un gran potencial de aumentar tus ingresos en sitios de microstock, de hecho algunas de mis imágenes mas vendidas son HDR.</p>
<p>Sé que este es un tema muy delicado entre algunos fotógrafos, con solo mencionar la palabra HDR en algunos foros es suficiente para desatar discusiones acaloradas. Es que en general, si buscas imágenes de este tipo lo que vas a encontrar son fotos donde la técnica es abusada, con tendencias a un look súper hiper-realistico, raro y de mal gusto, pero no siempre tiene que ser así.</p>
<p>Yo creo que mas allá de cualquier controversia, y en ciertas situaciones, esta técnica puede ser aplicada para lograr un rango dinámico mas amplio, que permita mostrar mas detalle tanto en las sombras como en las luces, y de esta manera conseguir una imagen mas viva y real.</p>
<p>La clave para esto es evitar el look de “efecto especial” y concentrase en crean una foto que se vea mas natural, hay varias formas de lograr esto, pero esto es lo que mejor ha funcionado para mi.</p>
<p><strong>Trípode</strong>: Siempre uso trípode, en cualquier situación, y también pongo el setting de mi cámara en “mirror lock up” (espejo arriba) para de esta manera evitar cualquier movimiento de la cámara.</p>
<p><strong>Exposición</strong>: Siempre saco las fotos en RAW, 5 fotos con Auto-Bracketing (horquillado) con una diferencia de un stop (EV) entre una y otra toma. Siempre expongo la imagen hacia la derecha del histograma, es decir para las luces, teniendo mucho cuidado de tener suficiente información tanto en las sombras como en las luces, y cubriendo todo el rango dinámico de la escena. Esta es una de las partes mas importantes, ya que si no se cuenta con la información suficiente, especialmente en las luces, podes terminar con una imagen que tenga mucho ruido, sobre todo en las sombras.</p>
<p><strong>Tone Mapping</strong>: El programa que utilizo es <a href="http://hdrsoft.com/" target="_blank">Photomatix Pro</a>, para combinar las imágenes y luego hacer Tone Mapping, siempre combino las imágenes en forma directa del archivo RAW, luego en el panel de “Details Enhancer” solo muevo el filtro de intensidad “Strenght” y el de “Smooth” que controla el valor de luminosidad para disminuir los halos. Luego solo guardo la imagen como TIFF, no toco saturación, o contraste aquí, ya que Photomatix no produce buenos resultados. Entonces, por ahora solo tengo una imagen chata, con poco contraste y claridad pero esta bien por ahora.</p>
<p><strong>Toque Final</strong>: Para terminar importo la imagen dentro de Lightroom, y le hago los ajustes finales, introduciendo contraste, negro, claridad y saturación en forma selectiva utilizando canales cuando es necesario. En ocasiones exporto la foto a Photoshop para los retoques finales y utilizo Dfine de Nik Software para eliminar ruido si es necesario. Es decir que esta ultima parte es muy parecida a mi proceso estándar.</p>
<p>Me llevó cierto tiempo, pruebas y errores, para poder descubrir la mejor forma de obtener imágenes HDR que tengan un look real. Esta es la única manera de que esas imágenes sean aceptadas en las agencias de microstock, deben verse reales. Pero sobre todo, pronto podrás descubrir que una imagen HDR bien procesada tiene gran potencial de venderse muy bien dentro de tu portafolio.</p>
<p>Esto es todo por ahora, luego te cuento mas, mientras tanto salí por ahí y saca algunas fotos..</p>
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