Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography


	Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography
n2sooners
9-22-2009 11:50 AM
180 views
tags:
hdr, photography
n2sooners says:
Lots of good information on HDR photography. At the site you can also hover over the images to see the before shots.
Add a Comment
Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up
Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from September 22, 2009
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8ee6dd3f-edde-4384-af7c-75533125f2fa/3B894C88-A40B-490E-B1D9-C6CA3A343118/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography" href="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography" style="font-size: 11px;">www.diyphotography.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><P>
<IMG width="250" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="166" align="left" title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_red.jpg" />High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR) is a creative technique in which you combine 3, 5 or 7 images shot at different exposures, which are then merged into a single image.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Taking an HDR image</H1>
<P align="center">
<IMG title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_church.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><P>
You need at least 3-shots to create an HDR image.  With three shots you would have 1 shot regularly exposed, 1-shot  2-stops overexposed and 1- shot  2 stops underexposed.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Bracketing</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography">With bracketing, you can set-up sets of shots to be taken at different exposure levels automatically</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>JPG or RAW?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography">It’s preferable to shoot RAW</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Merging your images with Photomatix</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Photomatix Work flow</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><IMG title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_theatre.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><IMG title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_vegas.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H2>General Slider Settings</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H2>Problem Areas-Halos</H2>
<P align="center">
<IMG title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_bellagio.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Photographing people with HDR</H1>
<P align="center">
<IMG width="500" height="332" title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_vows.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Avoiding over saturation or surreal HDR</H1>
<P align="center">
<IMG title="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" alt="Introduction To High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography" src="http://www.diyphotography.net/files/images/2/hdr_photo_fish.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography">There is a place for going in a different direction creatively with certain images. But you do not want all your images processed this way.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Finishing Touches in Photoshop</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><H1>Creative Freedom</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.diyphotography.net/introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photography"><P>
Gavin Phillips is a <A href="http://www.uniqueimagery.net/" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">professional photographer</A> who specializes in 'High Dynamic Range Imaging', which is often referred to as HDR.
</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3B894C88-A40B-490E-B1D9-C6CA3A343118/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard
Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment
Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch
Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map
About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA
Search Options

Today's Top Clips
