Hdr

whyulittle

Is there a limit to what you can achieve with HDR? I wanted to try it out last night, so took a couple of shots of the moon against a church steeple.

When I put them together in Photomatix, it took the properly exposed moon, but everything else came from the other photo - the properly exposed steeple, the over exposed sky, and most crucially all the glare from the moon in the long exposure shot. I could have lived with the blue sky, but the glare ruined it.

It was my first time ever trying to use Photomatix, just wondering was I trying to do something with it that's not possible? Can you define what you want to take from each shot?

jordanh999

Hi, I also tried HDR. I just experimented with photo's to see how they came out on HDR.

sasar

Did you use only two images for HDR? I have found that in order to get a nice hdr image you need to use at least 3 photos.

pete4130

I usually shoot about 9 images so I know I have everything covered. They sort of have to be done in multiples of 3,5, 7 or 9 so you get a balance on either side of the correct exposure.

The moon is a hard one with HDR as shutter speeds get really long unless you crank up the ISO. The secret with HDR's is to keep desaturating them anytime you make a levels or curve adjustment to keep their colours looking normal and not to make them look "HDR".

Here's a 9 shot HDR I shot of the moon in January and 1 or two others I've tried to keep looking as normal as possible: