High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography
Here's a short tutorial on how to do HDR photography. This image was taken inside the main chapel at San Juan Batista Mission, near Hollister, CA. Some parts of the scene were in deep shadow, whereas others were lit by the window on the left. Digital camera sensors struggle to record extreme light ranges which are easily handled by our human eyes. High dynamic range photography is one of the techniques that can be used to capture a wide range of light levels and tone map it into a single image which represents the scene as seen by the human eye.
To process a HDR image, it is easiest to use the auto-bracket function in your digital SLR. Most cameras support taking three bracketed images - I usually bracket images at -2EV, 0, +2EV. Further, HDR software like Photomatix Pro, can auto-align hand-held shots, which is handy if you are shooting without a tripod.
Once in Photomatix, I play around with the luminosity, lighting, white point and the dark point sliders till I get the image looking just right - not too "HDR-ish". The next step is to save the image as a 16-bit TIFF file. At this point I will re-import the tone mapped TIFF file back into Lightroom.
The final step of processing is to export the image back into an image editing program - I use Adobe Photoshop CS6. Once in Photoshop, I will further enhance the image using curves and luminosity layers, and a final bit of burning/dodging, resulting in an image like the one you see.
Here's a short tutorial on how to do HDR photography. This image was taken inside the main chapel at San Juan Batista Mission, near Hollister, CA. Some parts of the scene were in deep shadow, whereas others were lit by the window on the left. Digital camera sensors struggle to record extreme light ranges which are easily handled by our human eyes. High dynamic range photography is one of the techniques that can be used to capture a wide range of light levels and tone map it into a single image which represents the scene as seen by the human eye.
To process a HDR image, it is easiest to use the auto-bracket function in your digital SLR. Most cameras support taking three bracketed images - I usually bracket images at -2EV, 0, +2EV. Further, HDR software like Photomatix Pro, can auto-align hand-held shots, which is handy if you are shooting without a tripod.
Once in Photomatix, I play around with the luminosity, lighting, white point and the dark point sliders till I get the image looking just right - not too "HDR-ish". The next step is to save the image as a 16-bit TIFF file. At this point I will re-import the tone mapped TIFF file back into Lightroom.
The final step of processing is to export the image back into an image editing program - I use Adobe Photoshop CS6. Once in Photoshop, I will further enhance the image using curves and luminosity layers, and a final bit of burning/dodging, resulting in an image like the one you see.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography
Here's a short tutorial on how to do HDR photography. This image was taken inside the main chapel at San Juan Batista Mission, near Hollister, CA. Some parts of the scene were in deep shadow, whereas others were lit by the window on the left. Digital camera sensors struggle to record extreme light ranges which are easily handled by our human eyes. High dynamic range photography is one of the techniques that can be used to capture a wide range of light levels and tone map it into a single image which represents the scene as seen by the human eye.
To process a HDR image, it is easiest to use the auto-bracket function in your digital SLR. Most cameras support taking three bracketed images - I usually bracket images at -2EV, 0, +2EV. Further, HDR software like Photomatix Pro, can auto-align hand-held shots, which is handy if you are shooting without a tripod.
Once in Photomatix, I play around with the luminosity, lighting, white point and the dark point sliders till I get the image looking just right - not too "HDR-ish". The next step is to save the image as a 16-bit TIFF file. At this point I will re-import the tone mapped TIFF file back into Lightroom.
The final step of processing is to export the image back into an image editing program - I use Adobe Photoshop CS6. Once in Photoshop, I will further enhance the image using curves and luminosity layers, and a final bit of burning/dodging, resulting in an image like the one you see.
Here's a short tutorial on how to do HDR photography. This image was taken inside the main chapel at San Juan Batista Mission, near Hollister, CA. Some parts of the scene were in deep shadow, whereas others were lit by the window on the left. Digital camera sensors struggle to record extreme light ranges which are easily handled by our human eyes. High dynamic range photography is one of the techniques that can be used to capture a wide range of light levels and tone map it into a single image which represents the scene as seen by the human eye.
To process a HDR image, it is easiest to use the auto-bracket function in your digital SLR. Most cameras support taking three bracketed images - I usually bracket images at -2EV, 0, +2EV. Further, HDR software like Photomatix Pro, can auto-align hand-held shots, which is handy if you are shooting without a tripod.
Once in Photomatix, I play around with the luminosity, lighting, white point and the dark point sliders till I get the image looking just right - not too "HDR-ish". The next step is to save the image as a 16-bit TIFF file. At this point I will re-import the tone mapped TIFF file back into Lightroom.
The final step of processing is to export the image back into an image editing program - I use Adobe Photoshop CS6. Once in Photoshop, I will further enhance the image using curves and luminosity layers, and a final bit of burning/dodging, resulting in an image like the one you see.
Canon EOS 7D |
More details: exif |
Original size: 3009x4483 |
Current: 403x600 |
Keywords: san juan batista mission