Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Photography in the BWCA :: HDR opinions
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DeterminedOrange |
I have my first camera that has an HDR option. Actually it is in my Sony Xperia phone (20.7 MP, f2.8) but it does an OK job, about as good as any small PAS. After experimenting with the HDR feature I find that I don't like the blurred look in some areas and in general find the images look kind of fake. I want to do more work with this and plan to get another DSLR with this feature but am wondering if I should bother. What is your opinion of HDR as a photography tool? Gimmick or the future? Thanks, Bryan |
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redoleary |
On my DSLR I dont think I've ever used the HDR feature I just bracket manually and blend them in post. |
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bbrown6057 |
fake HDR effect |
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butthead |
When I do use it I use bracketed exposures taken on a tripod. Tonemapped .jpg on default settings. Fused .jpg on default. I do not use it a lot as most of the photography I do is Road Race focused and granddkids butthead |
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DeterminedOrange |
quote redoleary: "quote bbrown6057: "ok not to sound stupid here but how do you get exposure for sky and a dif exposure for the foreground while sitting on tripod? Do you take few of each before to know what settings you want before you actually take the ones you want?" Have you ever tried a graduated ND filter to make this process easier? I have one but it is only 3 stops and not enough to get the huge amount of range you have in your awesome images. Thanks for the description of your process. |
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redoleary |
quote bbrown6057: "ok not to sound stupid here but how do you get exposure for sky and a dif exposure for the foreground while sitting on tripod? Do you take few of each before to know what settings you want before you actually take the ones you want?" With the 6 stop ND installed I spot meter the sky, let's say it's at 1s, then spot meter the foreground, let's say that was 10 s. Then compose shot, set timer for 10s, then I use a piece of black felt and hold it in front of the lens in such a manor as to block only the sky. Start the 10s exposure gently shake the black card so it does not leave a hard line in the photo, after 9s of exposing the foreground you remove the card entirely so the foreground got the full 10s and the sky only got 1s. Make sense. |
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redoleary |
quote bbrown6057: "red, how long of an exposure did you do on the 3rd shot? Did you use a ND filter?" I don't recall specifically but we'll say 8-10 seconds for the foreground and maybe 1 second for the sky. I used a 6 stop ND filter for this. |
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jeroldharter |
With a DSLR, an HDR mode would be just the same. Better would be taking a series of bracketed RAW images that are later blended in Photomatix, Lightroom 6/CC, or Photoshop. If you are interested in HDR, you will certainly buy Photomatix of the Nik HDR software to play around. If you really get into it, you will be drawn to digital blending in Photoshop as in the Jimmie McIntire website linked above but that is many skill levels above in-camera HDR. |
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redoleary |
Here is a regular IIRC 7 stop bracketed HDR, blended/ tone mapped (whatever its called) in Photomatix. The tree would have been a silhouette without HDR and due to it's odd shape would have been hard to do black card technique. And lastly here is an example of black card technique, where I captured a large dynamic range with one exposure. |