Monday, February 9, 2015

HDR Photography


HDR Photography stands for high dynamic range imaging and it's exactly what it sounds like. It's a method used to add more "dynamic range" into photos. Dynamic range is a ratio from light to dark. When you take a regular photo, it's just one. When you use HDR, you take 7 photos taken from all different exposures. We use Photoshop to layer these 7 images and highlight the best parts of the photo. I like HDR sometimes, when it's used right but other times it just makes things look terrible.

To create an HDR image, you take 7 photos at different exposures from -3 to +3 without moving the camera at all and then going into photoshop to put it all together. In Photoshop, you go to File > Automate > Merge to HDR. Photoshop does it thing and then allows you to edit what HDR image it gave you. This,  I think this is very different from automatic HDR, like the thing on your iPhone. When you do you it on your phone, it's way less drastic then when you would do it professionally in Photoshop.


20 comments:

  1. nice back ground, the head is cut, the word needs to be bigger, nice rule of third

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  2. nice back ground, the head is cut, the word needs to be bigger, nice rule of third

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  3. Nice background!
    He's head is cutoff! :p
    Great picture!

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  4. Really nice landscape.
    The head is cut off!
    Very surreal.

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  5. Great background the clouds look really awesome.
    HIS HEAD IS CUT OH NO!
    Very nice landscape though.

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  6. good backround
    head cut off
    good placement

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  7. The background is good.
    In case you didn't notice, the heads kinda not there.
    Within rule of thirds.

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  8. I love your background.
    Why is his head cut off?
    I really love the glow on your dads body.

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  9. I like the surrealism
    His head is cut off
    Good lighting

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  10. Compliment: That landscape is niiiiice
    Criticism: Um... the head is cut off
    Compliment: The clouds add drama to the pic

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  11. I love the background image.
    The photo was cut off at his head.
    The photo all together is good the cut out matches.

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  12. nice landscape
    Whats up with the guys head?
    landscape is kindv'e surreal

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  13. I love the background!
    His head is kinda, well, partially gone
    I love the text font

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  14. Really cool background shot.
    His head is cut off.
    I like the font on the word.

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  15. cool landscape
    redo the cut out
    good thoughts

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  16. Compliment: Great landscape
    Improvement:His head is cut off
    Compliment: Great text font

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  17. I really like your landscape photo!
    One thing that could be better is to not cut off part of his head.
    I also like the word you used for your text!:)

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  18. I love your landscape!
    His head is cut off.
    The color of the text is really nice!

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  19. I love the text and the everything you did with it, really! The head is cut off :-P I love the environment you took the landscape in!

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  20. Vey cool landscape, his brain is gonna fall out, unique place for a landscape

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