This has been in the making for quite a while now. A few years ago, I became aware of the existence of High Dynamic Range photography, thanks to a discussion over lunch break at a local camera store among photography enthusiasts. Half an hour later, after returning back to my desk, I found myself executing a Google search to find out more about High Dynamic Range photography. The rest, as they say (and as is somewhat cliché), is history. After 2 years in the making, I finally got around to putting together a video tutorial on how to create high dynamic range images using Adobe Photoshop, Photomatix Pro, and Topaz Labs Adjust and Imagenomics Noiseware. Here are the videos.
I have been a big fan of HDR photography for a while now, and on Monday the 19th of July, I will be presenting a session on the tried and true methods of HDR to the Melbourne Camera Club. I wanted to have something to start off that would get my audience started and spent the last three hours putting this together (yes, 4 minutes and 16 seconds of sound and video takes 3 hours to put together if you want to do it well). Given that I will be sharing this with my colleagues from the camera club, I wanted to open this up to a larger audience, and hence, I have posted my first YouTube Video.
It doesn't end there. Tomorrow, I will also release my set of HDR Video Tutorials on YouTube. Stay tuned... and enjoy the video!
The primary characteristic that sets still cameras apart from video cameras is the former’s ability to “paint” the moment. Therein lies the opportunity to bring out your creative streak and make reality look surreal. This tutorial addresses the considerations towards exposure time and aperture while capturing life in motion.
London Arch, Port Campbell, VIC, Australia - Image composed of 8 frames
Standard digital cameras will invariably take a more than decent single frame. The first major technique that every digital photographer invariably attempts (and thereafter uses most often) is creating a panoramic image. This tutorial provides some simple shooting tips and a primer on using digital post processing techniques to create seamless panoramics.
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) allows one to produce some of the most breathtaking images that you can imagine. The problem with digital cameras is that they are very limited in the range of colours and tones that they can capture in a single frame. This is true for all digital cameras, no matter how advanced and how expensive they are.
HDR allows a photographer to subject their subjects to multiple exposure levels thereby allowing their cameras to assimilate as much colour information as possible at each of those different exposures. Combining them correctly results in breathtaking images that are otherwise nearly impossible to produce with a single exposure.
This tutorial provides a primer on how to create HDR images.
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HDR Workflow
Check out the HDR Workflows Video. This series of videos covers DoubleConvex's choice of workflow step-by-step from taking the image from the camera to a finished image.
Tutorials
