High Dynamic Range Photography
Graves of Industy! I shot this in Atchison, Missouri in May 2011.
HDR photography allows greater details, depth and perfect exposure. Any camera that allows manual over- or under-exposure of a photo can be used to create HDR images.Without bogging you down with all the technical details, here is a link to a free tutorial, one that I used to master this new technique. The program costs 99 bucks from Photomatix. But I recommend that you start from this tutorial before anything else, to get the fundamentals and also, it gives you a discount code for the program.
HDR works the best with highly detailed images, like the one shown to the left. I achieved this image by taking 3 images at different exposures: one light, one medium and one dark. The program then fuses the three images together (different from layering in PS) to achieve a magnificently exposed photo. Regular photography can never achieve this level of perfection. Then something called tonemapping is applied in order to bring out the details in the image. I don't understand the concept of tonemapping, but I love the results. Every part of the image is perfectly in focus and detailed, much like the way it is in real life, or in my case, in my imagination.
HDR works the best with highly detailed images, like the one shown to the left. I achieved this image by taking 3 images at different exposures: one light, one medium and one dark. The program then fuses the three images together (different from layering in PS) to achieve a magnificently exposed photo. Regular photography can never achieve this level of perfection. Then something called tonemapping is applied in order to bring out the details in the image. I don't understand the concept of tonemapping, but I love the results. Every part of the image is perfectly in focus and detailed, much like the way it is in real life, or in my case, in my imagination.
