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High Dynamic Range Digital Photography For Dummies
Create amazing HDR photos with this full-color, plain-English guide Your secret is safe with us. Even if you don't have the latest high-end high dynamic range (HDR) camera equipment, you can still create striking images that appear as if you do with the tips, tricks, and techniques in this helpful guide. Discover how to use bracketing effectively, get the most out of a tripod, finesse your photos with Photoshop, and make it all go easier with this practical and inspiring book. Get fresh ideas, avoid mistakes, and produce memorable images with this essential guide.
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352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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February 19, 2014
The book I read to research this post was High Dynamic Range Digital Photography For Dummies which is a very good book which I read at http://safaribooksonline.
High Dynamic Range or HDR photography is done with a combination of camera and software and comes about because the sensor in your camera is typically only sensitive to around 4,000 which for really realistic photography is limited however the actual colors varies according to things like the exposure and the lens used. HDR takes several photos in raw format with various settings and usually converts them to either TIFF or JPEG and combines them to create a more realistic photo. This process is typically done with Adobe Photoshop although can be done to a lesser degree with Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop Elements. Photoshop supports masks which partially cover an image and protect it and also it allows you to blend layers in lots of different ways. Elements by contrast has limited support for blending layers and the only way you can use masks is to import them with the image from either Photoshop or Photoshop Lightroom. You usually use an external light meter and take readings from various sources in the photo and adjust things like the exposure to accurately record the different points in several photos. You normally use a tripod because each photo has to be identical. There is a variety of raw tone editors to help with editing the raw files and some of these are freeware or have trial versions. Alternatively you can just use Photoshop. I did really enjoy this book and it is an interesting subject. Normally you use a digital SLR camera for this type of photography.
High Dynamic Range or HDR photography is done with a combination of camera and software and comes about because the sensor in your camera is typically only sensitive to around 4,000 which for really realistic photography is limited however the actual colors varies according to things like the exposure and the lens used. HDR takes several photos in raw format with various settings and usually converts them to either TIFF or JPEG and combines them to create a more realistic photo. This process is typically done with Adobe Photoshop although can be done to a lesser degree with Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop Elements. Photoshop supports masks which partially cover an image and protect it and also it allows you to blend layers in lots of different ways. Elements by contrast has limited support for blending layers and the only way you can use masks is to import them with the image from either Photoshop or Photoshop Lightroom. You usually use an external light meter and take readings from various sources in the photo and adjust things like the exposure to accurately record the different points in several photos. You normally use a tripod because each photo has to be identical. There is a variety of raw tone editors to help with editing the raw files and some of these are freeware or have trial versions. Alternatively you can just use Photoshop. I did really enjoy this book and it is an interesting subject. Normally you use a digital SLR camera for this type of photography.
October 30, 2010
Technical. Surprising amount of detail throughout. What the author is describing is a complete and separate way of looking at photograpy. What results is a book that one can turn to for reference, much like a how-to-guide. Interesting, but far from inspiring.
July 19, 2012
A lot of good information on shooting HDR, but the processing info doesn't go much beyond what the software tells you, and the post processing info assumes you're using a software package I don't (yet) have. But I HAVE gotten some photos I'm pleased with using his shooting guidelines.
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