Photo Editing in HDR
Lately I have been trying a new thing in my photography. Its called HDR. Its a matter of taking several exposures of what normally would be one picture and combining them to create something that is closer to what your eye can see. When you look at something your eye is constantly adjusting to get the best exposure of what you are focused on. Current camera technology does not allow this to my knowlege. By taking multiple exposures and using those pictures to create the perfectly exposed one you get something that is more like what your eye sees, however it is so different than normal photography that it looks fake. Here are a few examples of what I have been doing in HDR (The good and the bad)
This one was my first attempt. It has lots of noise in the darker areas. Photoshop could get rid of more of that.
Normally the darkness/brightness of the clouds would have burned or darkened the rest of the picture (like the hills) but becuase I am shooting in HDR it fixes that quite a bit.
HDR can also bring out reflections very well. This is not the best example, but is all I have at the moment.
Becuase I am combining multiple pictures, its very hard to get true HDR pictures of moving objects such as clouds. (Sudo-HDR can be done by shooting in RAW format with a single exposure. That is how I managed the other cloud picture)
HDR also has some really strange effects when changing the tone mapping.
The originals looked nothing like this. It was gray and not vivid at all. In order to get the buses bright enough normally you would have had to burn the sky and all of the clouds would have been nothing but white. (This one is done with multiple exposures rather than RAW becuase the result was much better)
Tell me what you think.
This one was my first attempt. It has lots of noise in the darker areas. Photoshop could get rid of more of that.
Normally the darkness/brightness of the clouds would have burned or darkened the rest of the picture (like the hills) but becuase I am shooting in HDR it fixes that quite a bit.
HDR can also bring out reflections very well. This is not the best example, but is all I have at the moment.
Becuase I am combining multiple pictures, its very hard to get true HDR pictures of moving objects such as clouds. (Sudo-HDR can be done by shooting in RAW format with a single exposure. That is how I managed the other cloud picture)
HDR also has some really strange effects when changing the tone mapping.
The originals looked nothing like this. It was gray and not vivid at all. In order to get the buses bright enough normally you would have had to burn the sky and all of the clouds would have been nothing but white. (This one is done with multiple exposures rather than RAW becuase the result was much better)
Tell me what you think.