HDR help please.

A photograph composited of differing exposures to display the highlights, shadows and midtones without any being blown out due to difficult lighting conditions.
Well this is how I understand it anyway. Hope it helps.
 
ruggie_uk said:
A photograph composited of differing exposures to display the highlights, shadows and midtones without any being blown out due to difficult lighting conditions.
Well this is how I understand it anyway. Hope it helps.
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This - HDR Stands for High Dynamic Range. Cameras can't capture a high dynamic range, perhaps around half of it in a really difficult scene like an open sunset. By taking pictures at different exposures you get chunks of the dynamic range which are then merged together in software to even out the whole dynamic range.

Taking one image and turning up the clarity or fill is not HDR. Putting one Raw file through photomatix is not HDR.
 
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If your going to do it, PLEASE don't over do the HDR! :) I hate it ;)

But would be good to see your HDR imaging, if done correctly it can give amazing results!
 
Actually I know all about HDR but my less experienced brother read something in a magazine that wasn't actually HDR.

It showed an image of a couple that was backlit by a sunset and then subject lit by an off camera flash...they called it HDR even though the trees were easily underexposed by around 4 stops.

Guess what you read in magazines isn't entirely correct 100% of the time...
 
Phil Young said:
Actually I know all about HDR but my less experienced brother read something in a magazine that wasn't actually HDR.

It showed an image of a couple that was backlit by a sunset and then subject lit by an off camera flash...they called it HDR even though the trees were easily underexposed by around 4 stops.

Guess what you read in magazines isn't entirely correct 100% of the time...
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HDR stands for high dynamic range. And does not have to be produced through software, and does not have to look like your typical HDR image. You can create blends of different exposures, say one for your subject and one for your background without the nasty halos and weird impossible shadows and highlights associated with typical hdr images. This is just called technique.
Another way of increasing range is to shoot with lighting, by the description of said image my bet is its a well lit contre joure, exposed for the background and with fill light from a reflector or flash to pick out the subject, again called technique.
Strobism is an umbrella term for using an off camera flash usually outdoors and is nothing new, its really just a term like lomography and has been used by photographers since the invention of flash powder.
 
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