Single Shot HDR Photography Done Right!
HDR images are often associated with terrible images, and the great ones tend not to let on that they are HDR shots. Here’s how you can make good ones with a single RAW file.
Optimal ISO Settings with Native ISO for HDR Photography
In HDR photography, we combine multiple exposures to create one final HDR image. This process of combining exposures automatically creates…
Optimal Shutter Speed Settings for HDR Photography
In HDR photography, the only varying factor controlling the exposure in your bracketed sequence should be the shutter speed. This means that the camera is controlling the shutter speed to give us the median exposure, the darker exposure and the brighter exposure. However, given that cameras have limitations of the highest possible shutter speed and that shutter speed also controls motion freeze, there are optimal settings for shutter speed. The optimal shutter speed depends on a few considerations, which we will discuss in this article. In addition, we will explain the two issues that arise due to shutter speed as well as why the optimal exposure value should not be at 3 stops, but at 2 stops instead.
Optimal Aperture Settings for HDR Photography
In previous articles, we talked about the optimal shutter speed and ISO for shooting HDR photos. Now, we are going to…
How to Use Continuous Shooting Mode for HDR Photography
With HDR photography, the specifics of how we capture the shot(s) make all the difference. For example, we often capture…
Horseshoe Bend HDR Photography | How We Shot It
Once you master HDR techniques, it won’t take you long to apply HDR effects to your images. As part of…
HDR Photography: It’s Not Dead Yet
Although HDR has often been used to create garish, oversaturated images, it certainly doesn’t have to be used in this way.
Horseshoe Bend: Final Image Processing in Lightroom 4 – From the HDR Photography Workshop Series
In this last tutorial, we will demonstrate how to apply the finishing touches to create the final HDR image of Horseshoe Bend in Page, Arizona. In addition, we will go over how to create a black and white version of this shot.