Today I thought I’d try my hand at HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. The idea of this is to create an image which combines both the light and dark areas from a set of 3 photos. One underexposed, one exposed normally and one overexposed. All though a tripod isn’t a necessity I’d recommend using one to make combining the 3 images easier. It’s also a good idea to use the camera on Aperture Priority mode to keep the depth of field the same across the 3 images.
The image above is the HDR image and the image below is the normally exposed image.
Quite a difference I think you’ll agree. You can use photo editing software such as The Gimp to create these HDR images but it can get quite tricky. I chose to use a piece of software called Photomatix Pro which makes the process so much easier. It’s not cheap but I think after a little practice it will be well worth the money.
I took a photo of the Bata Factory using this method also. See my Flickr photo feed if you’re interested.
Very interesting mate!