Darren Null
08-29-2008, 7:33 PM
HDR. High Dynamic Range.
Problem- digital photos have only a limited dynamic range, so if you are taking a picture inside a room -for example- the view from the window is brighter and totally washed out. Or you're taking a picture outside- your subject is fine, but the sky has no details.
Solution: Take several images of the same scene at different exposures and stack the images. The resulting composite image can draw from the dynamic range of ALL the photos, so you can have your room and the view. Or your landscape and the sky.
How to do it:
The easy way:
1) Take a bunch of photos at different exposures and feed them into this free photo-stacking program:
http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
The hard way:
Explained here:
http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html
And this are the sorts of results you can end up with:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/
Problem- digital photos have only a limited dynamic range, so if you are taking a picture inside a room -for example- the view from the window is brighter and totally washed out. Or you're taking a picture outside- your subject is fine, but the sky has no details.
Solution: Take several images of the same scene at different exposures and stack the images. The resulting composite image can draw from the dynamic range of ALL the photos, so you can have your room and the view. Or your landscape and the sky.
How to do it:
The easy way:
1) Take a bunch of photos at different exposures and feed them into this free photo-stacking program:
http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
The hard way:
Explained here:
http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html
And this are the sorts of results you can end up with:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/03/10/35-fantastic-hdr-pictures/