I appreciated the two images in your book of an interior, with the tone mapped image exhibiting “dirty” walls. It was not also clear when you would want to forgo HGR imaging in favor of exposure blending. Of course I did eventually find it on my own and all is well, but for some people like me who wanted to try the technique it was a hard to figure out where to find it. I scoured the book from cover to cover looking for any screen shot of this technique but couldn’t find one. What you forgot to mention is where to find this technique and that it is not, strictly speaking, an HDR technique and so is not accessed through the HDR menu of Photomatix. In the book you mention many times the Photomatix Highlights & Shadows -Adjust method of combining images. Since I suspect that it will go into more printings, I wanted to point out something that you might want to relook at. $99) just by entering “beforethecoffee” in the coupon code box of the Photomatix purchase page.ĭidn’t know where else to contact you regarding your book. You can also download a free trial version of Photomatix from Get 15% off the Photomatix program (reg. You can stop by and see my Photomatix Tutorial in this blog. Ok, now you have a bunch of pictures that you’ve downloaded and it’s time to create some HDR images. Lock your eyes on the brackets in the viewfinder and “register” it with a spot in the scene. If you must shoot free-standing then concentrate on being steady during the entire image sequence. If it’s a pole just press the edge of the camera against it. No fumbling with the camera between exposures.Īlways scope out a steady object to lean the camera on. First you dial in Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB), compose, then press the shutter release button to take the images. The camera must have Auto Exposure Bracketing. It can’t correct for a sloppy shooting style. ![]() Photomatix Pro is able to align the images but don’t get to relaxed about it. HDR photography can be done handheld, however just as in all photography, using a tripod will improve quality. The father of HDR, Greg Ward, conceived, designed, wrote, and tested HDR using JPEG images.Ĭan I do this handheld or do I need a tripod? Shoot in RAW mode if your camera has it, you can sqeeze out a little more dynamic range. HDR photography can be done in RAW mode or JPEG mode. Most cameras, even point and shoot’s, have a feature called exposure compensation that allows you to dial or toggle in a new exposure. I never knew my camera could change exposure settings? Here is the final image after merging to HDR in Photomatix Pro software. You can omit the +1EV and the -1EV if you like. That means each image set will be 5 images 1EV spacing. **The high end Nikons and the new Fuji S5 Pros are set up to shoot 1EV spacing. It will provide sufficient dynamic range for most scenes and can be easily done with most cameras. ![]() It is the undisputed workhorse of HDR photography. Add that to your everday conversation with photographers. The under exposed picture captures highlight details in the sky. Notice the wedge of brightness in the sky is now saturated with color. This exposure captures details in the sky that the other two pictures lack. ![]() My last picture is taken at -2EV or 2 stops under exposed. The over exposed picture captures shadow details in the area of the rocks. It’s taken in the same position as the 0EV image, but it’s 2-stops over exposed or +2EV. The next image I take is over exposed – you know the one’s that look all washed out. The dynamic range of the scene exceeds the dynamic range of my camera sensor. Notice there is a wedge of color missing in the sky (blown pixels) AND the rocks in the foreground have no detail. That’s called the 0 exposure value or 0EV for short and is shown here. The first image should be what your camera thinks is the best overall exposure for the scene. Of course there is lots going on behind the scenes but that’s the general idea in lay terms. The software takes the best pixels of each image and outputs a single file with all the best pixels. With HDR software, the images are analyzed pixel by pixel. Once the images are taken (hopefully RAW files) the images are downloaded to your computer. High Dynamic Range Photography is the process of taking several pictures of the scene and changing the exposure setting in your camera for each picture.
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