An HDR question

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I'm increasingly liking and enjoying taking HDR landscapes and architechtural (sp?) shots.

I have tried both using the bracketing on my camera and creating virtual copies in LR and then adjusting the exposure. I perhaps should add I always shoot RAW. To be honest I cannot see any definable difference between either way except that in camera bracketing takes up more card space.

Anyone care to enlighten me as what if any the difference is?
 
I use both ways - 3 shots and a single worked in LR

I think noise is more evident in the single shot approach (although I may be wrong)

Some of my most successful HDR shots though have been from a single RAW

So for me - no discernable difference :)
 
Can you explain to me what this HDR is? I keep hearing people mentioning it, and search still playing games with me, so cant look it up :(
 
I guess that it would depend upon the range of brightness in the scene. Although there is a bit of latitude in the RAW file, if, for instance, you were shooting directly at the sun and including something completely shaded, you might not be able to pull enough out of the RAW file and might have to bracket your shots a couple of stops apart.
 
Beat me to it, John!!! :D
 
MattBristow said:
I'm increasingly liking and enjoying taking HDR landscapes and architechtural (sp?) shots.

I have tried both using the bracketing on my camera and creating virtual copies in LR and then adjusting the exposure. I perhaps should add I always shoot RAW. To be honest I cannot see any definable difference between either way except that in camera bracketing takes up more card space.

Anyone care to enlighten me as what if any the difference is?
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Don't know the technical answer, but I have been trying it for a few weeks and like you, I do not notice much difference. Having said that, someone on this forum who regulary produces stunning HDR images, seems to use a minimum of 5 bracketed images, therefore I assume there is a benefit to bracket.
 
Cheers all kind of confirmed what I thought I suppose

Peter10d said:
Don't know the technical answer, but I have been trying it for a few weeks and like you, I do not notice much difference. Having said that, someone on this forum who regulary produces stunning HDR images, seems to use a minimum of 5 bracketed images, therefore I assume there is a benefit to bracket.
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fine if you shoot Nikon I guess with Canon you can only bracket 3 automatically I guess If you use upwards of 5 then your bracketing yourself anyways and not doing it automatically
 
MattBristow said:
Cheers all kind of confirmed what I thought I suppose

fine if you shoot Nikon I guess with Canon you can only bracket 3 automatically I guess If you use upwards of 5 then your bracketing yourself anyways and not doing it automatically
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I think the top end Canon models, allow you to bracket more than 3, but I guess it is manual otherwise, which must result in a risk of camera movement.
Time Canon caught up with Nikon :thumbsdown:
 
you can shoot -2,-1,-0 and then adjust to shoot 0, +1, +2 and carry on if you see what i mean... but you'd have to be using a tripod
 
Peter10d said:
I think the top end Canon models, allow you to bracket more than 3, but I guess it is manual otherwise, which must result in a risk of camera movement.
Time Canon caught up with Nikon :thumbsdown:
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It`s very easy to do it manually so I don`t find the auto bracketing limitations an issue. :)
 
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