My First HDR

helios

wow, this is almost as fun as infrared! This is my first attempt at HDR... extra points if you can tell what it is

Fenster

What is it?

irishcrazyhorse

an iron,well the tip of one anyway

Shiny

But if it is HDR, why is it very over-exposed?

helios

Shiny wrote:

But if it is HDR, why is it very over-exposed?

I just happened to have 3 shots of the iron, so I didn't preplan it all...

311

I only tried it a couple of times ,you'd probably need an image with detail to learn anything from hdr.

mathias

Yes , although its an interesting image , I dont get why HDR was done here , its usually reserved for when you cant enough detail on a dark shot , like say in a church or a landscape at dusk or in low light , please explain what you thought would be in this case achieved over the original shot ?

Shiny

I only use HDR when the picture I need to take exceeds the
Dynamic Range of the camera.

ie properly exposing sky and foreground in a landscape pic.

an indoor photo with a window. in a single photograph it is normally
impossible to correctly expose the inside without blowing the
highlights outside the window.

I think someone from the castle trip did the above very well if I
remember correctly. (in terms of the window exposure)

But as you pointed out it is only your first HDR so you have a good
bit to learn.

Make another attempt with a different subject with high contrast
and we will have a look at it. Cos I love HDRs normally.:)

Fenster

The best place to try out HDR is IMHO at a church, where you can get compositions like this.

How are you bracketing photos? How many stops? Are you underexposing? Shooting in raw or jpeg?