Here is my first attempt on HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, using a Sony Ericsson W810i.
The picture is not sharp because I resized it. The photo was taken from Kondapur market, Hyderabad.
Here are the steps to make an HDR image using your phone camera:
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Take a photo using your mobile phone. Save it to your computer.
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Download and use Dynamic-PhotoHDR.
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Open the photo in Dynamic-PhotoHDR and play with the settings till you are happy.
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Save the HDR photo.
For advanced tips, visit the following tutorial (and see the great sample images): http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/
Yummy looking jelabies! what was that thing on the left of it?
Something like Bajjis…
looks like phot taken from the digicam
Wow Ajay…
That was a huge compliment
oh… this s new for me… i have a collection og photos takn with my phone cam.. let me try…
Thanks
Shoban,
Try it out and post the results in your blog.
I design imaging chips for digital cameras. I made (arguably) the first color digital camera. Before that, the japanese were storing analog video on little cds and calling that digital, and apple had a digital black and white (maybe not even really digital, I never took one apart). Other than that, I know of no others at the time I made my first. What I did was so suprising, the japanese manufacturer of the sensor (Sharp) send a team out to find out how I was doing it (they thought everyone had to use their timing generator chips).
But then, I was just a nerd in his garage, so who knows what was out there in development elsewhere. It’s kind of bold of me to claim I was the first, but I’m just trying to say, I know this industry very well.
Since then, I’ve continued worked in this industry for the last 17 years. Find someone else who’s been making digital cameras for 17 years!
I’m currently making chips for IP cameras and cell phones, and HDR comes up all the time.
Here’s what I want to say, and I hope all the hobbyists will listen.
HDR is pitiful at best, at this time. It can’t yet be done right for a number of technical reasons. I could go into these, but just look at the pictures! The best ones you find are staged to put an area of interest in the increased range, which is very narrow indeed.
What’s needed for HDR is either a breakthrough in noise levels in A/D, a new storage cell type for the sensors that can hold at least 32 times as much charge (even that would be pitiful), or a lens with logarithmically reducing intensity levels (but not chroma).
I hate to see this myth probagate, because I end up having to do months of work just to be able to say it’s in there, on the brochures for the product.
In this case, software fixing it afterwards, when all the data is gamma corrected into an 8 bit range?
Nonsense. Just look at that shirt on the guy in the picture, or the white rectangle under the fruit table. Completely blown out.
Who cares? Get a real camera to take REAL HDR pics and use a cell phone for what it is meant to be used for.