Broaden your technical and creative skills. Unleash the artist within you.
The second in a series of tips on how to process HDR images.
These HDR tips resulted from a conversation with my good friend Andreas Waldeck, an HDR expert who happens to work with HDRSoft, the publisher of the premier HDR software Photomatix Pro.
In Tip #1 we talked about the correct way to capture multiple images HDR images in the field. See HDR Tip #1.
Now I want to start discussing the processing of these image files. The software tools we’ll discuss are Lightroom, Photomatix and, to a much lesser extent, Photoshop. So let’s get started.
(2623)
Announcing 2010 photography workshops
I shoot a lot of HDR. That’s where you take multiple images at different exposures so that you capture the full dynamic range of the scene in front of you. Many people consider HDR to be unnatural and you can definitely get a surreal effect. But HDR is the only way you can capture certain challenging scenes and make the results look like what you see, not what your camera sees.
I had a talk with my good friend Andreas Waldeck who works for HDRsoft, the creators of Photomatix. This is the premier software for doing HDR. Andreas shared some things with me that were real eye-openers and I’d like to pass them along to you in a series of HDR Tips. So let’s get started with the first tip.
(2456)