HDR photograph round up

in Photo Blog Photograph round up by Jamie HIBBERT — April 12, 2009 at 8:00 am | 2 comments

HDR Photography

HDR means High Dynamic range. Capturing a photograph with well exposed tones is the main goal in photography, but this is very hard to achieve with a single exposure.

There are a few methods of creating an HDR photograph, I will cover two here but if you google it you will find a few others and some great tutorials. I am not going to explain how to do it, just cover the basics.

Bracketing – this requires take multiple photographs, usually at least 3 shots of the same image at different exposures. A simple rule is take one image at +2ev, one at 0ev and one at -2ev. You then layer the image and blend it to show the full range of colours from shadows, highlights and mid-tones. This will give you HDR!
RAW images – If you can take photographs in RAW format, you can then expose the image at any levels you require, saving each image and then blending once again to create HDR. This method is great if you are taking landscape photographs and have clouds moving quickly. This way you get sharp clouds and not 3 images of the clouds all in different places.

There is specialist software that will tone map your photographs and create the image for you – Photomatix is a popular software solution.

Below is a collection of HDR photographs. Please take time to view each artists flickr page!

Through my Window

HAMED MASOUMI’s photostream

Caracara takes off

wili_hybrid’s photostream

Australian War memorial

stage88′s photostream

Brisbane Sunset

Burning Image’s photostream

Old Jeans Are Best

digicla’s photostream

Geisterbahn

extranoise’s photostream

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