One of my 27 things is to master the art of HDR photography manipulation. If you’ve never heard of HDR photography before, let me divulge the little I know on the subject…
HDR stands for ‘High Dynamic Range’ and is an out of camera processing method to produce richly saturated, highly contrasted images that better represent the real life lighting of the scene. The usual method of achieving this is by layering several differently exposed versions of the same image and tone mapping the image until you get the desired result. Some of these can look quite garish (and sort of like they came from 1990s deviantart portfolios), but there are some really, really pretty results in quite a few of the more subtle examples.
I’m going to be having a go at this when I can afford the tone mapping software that’s required, unfortunately it’s not something that can be done purely in photoshop.. boo! Here’re a few of my favourite examples of HDR photography, oh and, you should check out this blog, HDR Spotting, where there are daily (amazing) examples of HDR photos.
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