China Trip: HDR Photography

by | Jan 27, 2011 | Uncategorized | 6 comments

 

I have not had much free time over here, but jet-lag has has kept me up so I thought I would post some HDR (high dynamic range) photos that I have been playing around with. What is interesting about these particular photos is that I did not use the DSLR camera, and my little point and shoot does not have exposure bracketing capabilities. How I got around this was by increasing and decreasing the exposure and levels of a single image in Photoshop to get three differently exposed images. From there, I imported the three images into into HDR software (Photomatix) to get the final result. If you want some really impressive model pics or documentation of built projects, definitely look into this process. My other HDR POST HERE goes into a little more detail about HDR images and the benefits of this process

 

 

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 Original image

 

 

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Final HDR image

 

 

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Original image

 

 

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Final HDR image

 

 

 

6 Comments

  1. GIAN on January 29, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    is fantastic, always I've been following your posts; you have the best post!!!
    thanks

  2. James on February 3, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    This is great! I recently heard about HDR photography, but have yet to experiment with it because I don't have a DSLR. Is it possible to do HDR's just in Photoshop? And how do you use just a single image to create an HDR photo? Thanks!

  3. ALEX HOGREFE on February 6, 2011 at 2:44 am

    Hi James
    You can create HDR's in Photoshop, but it doesn't work as well as external programs such as Photomatix. To create HDR's with a single image, open the image in Photoshop, and save two more versions. One with a higher exposure (Image>adjustments>exposure) and one with a lower exposure. Then combine all three images to create the final HDR image

  4. Andrei on September 7, 2011 at 6:44 am

    I am new to this HDR on photoshop. This will work with wedding photography.

  5. Ontario Photographers on August 18, 2017 at 9:57 am

    High Dynamic Range (HDR) technique used in imaging and photography to reproduce a greater dynamic range of luminosity than is possible with standard digital imaging or photographic techniques. Thanks for this bestest post.!