HDR (High Dybamic Range) - Day 1
I’m feeling a bit shit, so I’ll make this short. This is the Tate in hdr.
Alright I feel a shit load better now. I first heard about HDR from Trey Ratcliff his work is amazing, and so interesting. he is no doubt one of the best HDR photographers I’ve ever seen. I first saw his tutorial quite a while ago, and didn’t feel confident following it until recently when I got my mac and forced myself to try it out this week.You create HDR images by taking a photograph at multiple exposures using the exposure bracketing tool on your digital SLR (mine’s a Canon EOS 400D) you’ll most probably need a tripod for this or at the very least a lens with IS or whatever the Nikon equivalent is. After that you run the three images through a program called Photomatrix (£40 if you’re quick!) once done you do a bit of tone mapping, either in Photoshop (I’m using Photoshop CS3 at the moment, it’s a fucking amazing program and is leaps ahead of Photoshop CS/CS2) using the tone mapping plugin that comes with the Photomatrix bundle or you can do it directly in Photomatrix. Then you can do any touch ups you like in Photoshop.
(This is best viewed massive! Click the pic to go to flickr)
I know quite a few people use the HDR tool in Photoshop… I personally find that it gives pretty poor results compared to Photomatrix… and with Photomatrix you can create a HDR from one RAW image.
Give the tutorial a go! Even if you get crap results like me it’s well worth it! Here it is!
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