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Hi,

To date, for the very little and subtle HDR shots I've done, I have done Manual mode and set the aperature, shutter speed + EV compensation manually, for each shot.

Now, I know the camera is capable of this "3 or 5 automatic shots from -2 -1 0 1 2"

Now, I have scoured the camera menus for this, but can not find it.

Can someone with knowledge please enlighten me with perhaps a step by step, i.e Menu, Shooting Settings, etc.

I really am sorry for being so dim, it's just with some shots I naturally have a few seconds unneccessary wastage between each shot as I'm doing it manually.

Thanks in advance

Steve
 
You're an absolute genius.

Cheers mate, saving me a hell of a lot of finger pain and time :-P
 
Well it's a customisable command button really, not a dedicated bracketing button...so I guess it's understandable. I never forget where it is, but I have forgotten to turn it off again more than once :o
 
Yeah, funny thing is, upon trying to figure out how to do it, i was pressing that FN button continuously, but never saw the wee lcd screen at the top when pressing it.

I'm a bit dim at times though :-)
 
SteveFarrell said:
Now, I know the camera is capable of this "3 or 5 automatic shots from -2 -1 0 1 2"
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Is that all it does? My D300s (and D200) will bracket up to 9 exposures from -4 to +4.

That's what I usually do, and discard 4 of them, just going with -4, -2, 0, +2 and +4 (basically deleting all the odd numbered ones). I wish Nikon would get the hint and let us bracket in 2 stop exposures. :)
 
With my D700, I use Aperture Priority and the lowest ISO for HDR.

I mainly shoot 5 exposures.

All tonemapping is done with Photomatix and then brought back into Lightroom.

doncaster.jpg


cusworth-3_0.jpg
 
Those two are really nice Ian. Makes me want to get out and try HDR again.

Didn't realise the D700 didn't have a dedicated BKT button like a few of the other Nikons - I know the D90 has anyway, as well as the Function button.
 
My D200 has a dedicated button, but my D300s doesn't. It's allocated to the function button below the DOF preview on the front of the camera by default (but it's configurable).
 
Kaouthia said:
Is that all it does? My D300s (and D200) will bracket up to 9 exposures from -4 to +4.

That's what I usually do, and discard 4 of them, just going with -4, -2, 0, +2 and +4 (basically deleting all the odd numbered ones). I wish Nikon would get the hint and let us bracket in 2 stop exposures. :)
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He's not got it quite right, it's up to 9 brackets, though the maximum interval is 1 stop...so if you want +/-4 stops then you will be taking 9 brackets.
 
Those are fantastic shots I have to say Ian - not the usual HDR post-nuclear appocalypse! :D

Proper nice those!

PS I can never remember where the damned bracketing is either!
 
Thank you for the nice comments on the images.
I do like to use HDR for capturing the details and I am not a huge fan of the psychedelic look.

Some images do look nice in HDR and some just dont in my opinion.

I am happy to share my Photomatix settings with anyone if they are interested

Ian
 
In all cameras you should be able to set it to -2, 0 and +2. But then alter the shutter to drag the exposure down to -4. Obviously you'd have to drag it the other way to achieve +4, then delete the duplicates before merging.
 
Settings for processing with Photomatix

1.Strength – 100 % (if you want the HDR to look a little more realistic – I put the strength at 50%)
2.Color Saturation – 49% (keep it mid level)
3.Luminosity – 6
4.Light Smoothing – second button from the right
5.Microcontrast – 0
6.White Point – pump it up…I like it near the top is use 4.383%
7.Black point – around 35% I like 0.995%
8.Gamma – I keep it at 1.10
9.Temperature – 0
10.Saturation Highlights – 0
11.Saturation Shadows – 0
12.Micro Smoothing – 9.0
13.Highlights Smoothing – 0
14.Shadows Smoothing – 0
15.Shadows Clipping – 0

Click on PROCESS button! (this takes a few minutes)

9. Now you have your processed HDR you are almost done! Every HDR must go into more post processing. I use CS4/5 and Lightroom, but you may have another version of photoshop

10. Save your file and open up the tone mapped HDR in Photoshop or Lightroom

11. Levels – I then open up levels and play with the settings

12. I tend to find that Trees and Grass are over saturated with HDR so I de-saturate just the Green/Yellow Channel a little.

This is a shot of Goathland Train Station which was used in the ITV Heartbeat program and also one of the Harry Potter Films

Goathland.jpg


Hope this helps

Ian
 
Good pointers there.

I think the settings in Photomatix really vary dependant on the HDR shot to be honest, but its a good guideline as above!

Cheers for all the replies btw :-)
 
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