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 | Scene normally exposed. |
 | Scene under exposed. |
 | Scene over exposed. |
 | Output of combined photography from HDR software. |
Monday, March 16, 2009
HDR Photography
My friend Don Stedman introduced me to HDR (high dynamic range) photography. It's a method of handling photographs with different exposure elements. For example, you might have a scene where a regular photo would have part of the picture exposed correctly but another part would be over or under exposed. In HDR photography you take multiple (3 in my case) exposures of the same scene. One is normally exposed, one is under exposed and the last over exposed. Using HDR software you combine the 3 to produce a photograph that has all parts correctly exposed. The results can be quite striking! Below is a somewhat less than dramatic example but it does show how HDR photography works.
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And it even leaves little white lettering "Photmatix" in the photo!
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You noticed! It's more obvious on some photographs than others. Photomatrix is the HDR software I've been using. The trail version of the software is free but then you end up with that "watermark." It costs $100 for the regular version and the only difference is the removal of the watermark. For $100 I'll live with the watermark... for now :)
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