How To: HDR Photography
By Ryan • Dec 26th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), PhotographyBy Charlie Sorrel of Wired.com:
“Wondering what to do with the new zillion-megapixel camera you got for Christmas now that you’ve filled your memory card with pictures of Uncle Pete snoozing in a party hat? Stock Photographer and Image Technician Ryan McGinnis has a great how-to post on HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography.
HDR is a technique which combines several photos of the same subject taken at different exposures: The darker pictures have details in the highlights and vice versa. Combining these gives a photograph a tonal range which is impossible from a single image, with an almost surreal amount of detail everywhere.
McGinnis talks us through the basic principals and gives a step-by-step on using Photoshop CS2’s built in HDR feature. There are plenty of other ways to do HDR, but if you have a camera, a tripod and a copy of Photoshop, try it out. It’s better than leftover turkey.”
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