Understanding HDR Photography

Understanding HDR Photography

Ok, so just what is HDR photography? Firstly, its stands for High Dynamic Range, which, with three seperate exposures are then combined within an HDR program, and are blended accordingly to bring out...

my new camera won't be here until monday 18th Nov now, delayed for a week. Watch it snow and disappear before sunday

LOL that my luck too, ken.... hmmmm chalegne for you, catch some hdr captures, or even cold mornings/frost etc - would be interesting to see.

What new camera you getting?

Because of my disabilities I can no longer use slr's with interchangeable lenses and I need a tough bodied camera. So this time I've opted for the FujiFilm S9600, it has a 9mp capacity something like a 50-300mm lense and shoots in RAW.It's also not too heavy and the controls fall nicely to hand, but has a reasonable quality output like slr's. Price is not too bad for a bridge camera, at least of this quality

But snow and frost are like a magnet to me, and I don't know why

me too only talking abou hdr this morning thanks for link santa has come a week early!

Hiya Spooks
Great images.
Could you tell me where the ruined church is please, this would be a great location for a photoshoot I have comming up next year. Many thanks

This church can be found in a little village called Baldersby St John, just outside Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Hope this helps

Hi;

I'm new to the forum, but you might be interested in a "Free" HDR program called "qtpfsqui" which can be downloaded from www.qtpfsqui.sourceforge.net. I also use Photomatix, and Dynamic Photo HDR. I find that they all have their Pro's & Con's.

Sylmac (A newbie here)

Hi Spooks, Good article and I'm trying to learn different techniques, when i import a RAW image into Lightroom and adjust the exposure to say +2 what format do you export it in to use again in Photomatrix.

that technique creates a really impressive effect, i am off to practice now :-)

Having practiced this quite a lot I have found that photomatix is better for making more realistic HDRS. HDR is one of those things that can look amazing but more often than not people can vastly overdo it. I'll happily give my default settings for photomatix if anyone's interested.

I'd also recommend using lucisart plugin on photoshop afterwards and adding contrast and gamma to your photos after the whole photomatix procedure has been applied.