Single File HDR, really?

January 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Stitched and HDR processed, Rockport Harbor, MA

Well, not exactly but perhaps a mini HDR; but a very useful one at that. There are numerous articles, Web tutorials, books written about the high dynamic range image processing and for a good reason. The process yields remarkable results with detailed highlights and detailed shadows. Images obtained from HDR processing encompass a range of tonalities that would not be possible to capture on film or in digital sensors. After all, who does not want to have a film or a digital sensor that doubles or triples the EV range, maybe even more. [Read more...]

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Splitting Hair for Wider Range

October 22, 2003 By Leave a Comment

(Before the advent of high dynamic range (HDR) processing I used to use the following method to extract a greater dynamic range from my images. It is still a perfectly usable solution and probably much more flexible than the HDR processing, not to mention easier. Also, you will not be tempted to create “that HDR look” with everything in the mid-tones. I call them photographs with choked light. Photoshop CS3 offers a very useful adjustment tool, Shadow & Highlight which renders this method useless. However, for many users out there still using CS or CS2 this is a very useful and easy method to learn.)

I face situations where I may want to accommodate a wide tonal range in an image that has too much contrast. I picked a sample image to use here showing two garages with white paint under direct sunlight with a heavy shadow area behind a fence. [Read more...]

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