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Title: any HDR experts, amateurs, beginners in here?
Post by: heikki on February 23, 2010, 03:38:44 PM

i'm getting a bit interested, started doing some reading and taking a few bracketed photos for practice.

any resources out there that i shouldn't miss?

Title: Re: any HDR experts, amateurs, beginners in here?
Post by: ashevillain on February 23, 2010, 04:50:07 PM

There's part of a chapter in Bryan Peterson's book Understanding Photography (http://www.amazon.com/Bryan-Petersons-Understanding-Photography-Field/dp/0817432256) that deals with HDR photography. I have just started playing around with it using a Canon G11, Lightroom and Photomatix. It's pretty fun...I look at it as a different form of art than traditional photography. There's some of my examples in the link in my signature.

I'll add that I have been taking as many exposures as possible and just experimenting. Sometimes it seems to work better using just 3 exposures (for example -2, 0, +2) and other times I like the results better using every possible shutter speed between -2 and +2. I have not yet tried an HDR image that doesn't include the "correct" exposure (such as -2, -1, +1, +2) although it seems like it would work. Also, depending on your camera/software setup a tripod/remote shutter release is not completely necessary but it can be helpful. The "Align Images" option in Photomatix works pretty well.