Acronym for High Dynamic Range photography - a method of combining multiple images with varying tonal ranges into a single image that shows a wider range of values (from dark to light) than can be captured in-camera in a single frame.
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Develop Canon Raw images on Mac OSX via command line into mutliple tiffs for pseudo-HDR
What is the best way to convert on the command line a Canon raw file (CR2) into 2 or 3 differently exposed tiffs for HDR/tonmapping?
I would like to use Apple's sips, but couldn't find anything to ...
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How to get this “Resident Evil” photo effect
Surfing on the Internet I found this amazing album by Jeff Lazell.
I'm wondering how he got those tones and textures. I really like them.
Any ideas of the techniques to produce those effects?
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What are the pros and cons of Canon 5D III / 6D HDR Mode Vs HDR using a computer + HDR software?
How well does the Canon 5D III / 6D HDR mode rate against other HDR modes? i.e. using a computer + HDR software?
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What tools do you recommend for creating HDR images?
Ideally the tool should be
easy to use
able to work with images taken without a tripod (i.e. allow to align the images)
free
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Good HDR programme wanted [duplicate]
I am looking for a good HDR programme to use on my apple computer, preferably a free programme but am prepared to pay if programme is worth it
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How do I set up my D7000 for auto-bracketed exposures with one shutter press?
I've read that it's possible to set up the Nikon D7000to take up to 3 successive shots with different exposures using Auto Bracketing.
I've set the whole thing up on my camera, but when I press the ...
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Why I can only enable HDR in my Nikon P501's backlighting mode?
In my Nikon P501 I can only enable HDR on backlighting mode. Why?
Normally I use this mode when the sun is on the back and I am taking a picture of person, so that both things, the sun and the person ...
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What Budget DSLR has bracketing modes?
I need recommendations on entry level budget DSLRs with plenty of bracketing modes (exposure, F-stops, etc for HDR and DOF shots). I am in Germany and am willing to spend upto €600. The brand doesn't ...
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Why do most cameras only support 3 frames of auto exposure bracketing?
Most digital cameras support only 3-frame AEB, why is this? I think AEB is a very important feature these days since there are many HDR hobby-photographers out there. So, I wonder if they really all ...
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Is this photo taken using HDR or software processing?
This image has the look of one taken with the HDR technique, yet it is a live performance therefore would be extremely hard to do, as the subject would be moving around. I used photoshop, Gimp and HDR ...
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AEB on the Canon Rebel T2i
Hi I'm new to this whole HDR scene and I actually have a few questions regarding this. I was trying to take RAW photos with my camera set to AEB on -2, 0, and +2 exposure today with continuous shot ...
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Which cameras have built-in HDR?
When taking landscape photos, I often struggle with dynamic range. I have either a burned out skies or landscapes are too dark.
Now I'm reading on Wikipedia that some cameras can take 3 pictures with ...
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How do I shoot massive bonfire in order to produce an HDR image?
I am looking for advice on how to shoot a massive bonfire to produce an HDR image. My school has a massive bonfire every year for homecoming — it is 30+ ft. tall. I have been shooting and HDRing my ...
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How to do HDR with long exposure photos?
I've seen a lot of nice landscape photos on 500px that seem like there must be HDR or some process to blend in skies with the foreground, many also have long shutter speeds. Unless they are all using ...
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Why are my tone mapped images turning purple?
As I've been developing a few images into tone mapped images in Photomatix, some of the skies that were blue seem to be turning purple. I'm not quite sure why. I take 3 bracketed RAW images, which ...
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Is there somewhere I can download sample images to use for practicing HDR techniques?
I'm a student and I have a final project concerning 'tone mapping technique'.
I have a simple question - is there a site where I can download the data base for an image HDR?
For example as we can ...
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HDR then Panorama, or Panorama then HDR?
When creating a panorama for a scene of huge dynamic range, intuitively I always merge exposure brackets to HDR and tone-map them and then stitch the resulting images into a panorama. My intuition ...
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What photo editor for Mac offers image filters with live previews, HDR composition and photo stitching?
I am looking for a photo editor that offers to...
...choose filters by comparing live previews, not via contextual menus
...create panoramas by photo stitching
...create HDR images
I would be nice ...
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How to automatically identify bracketed image sets among 100s of images?
I take a lot of photos. Quite many of those (cca 50%) are bracketed ones to create HDR images later. I would like to automatically identify the bracketed sets and move those to a separate folder for ...
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Time Exposures Greater Than 30 Seconds: How
What I'm looking for may not exist but I thought I'd ask here first. I know product recommendations are kind of verboten, but I'm coming up empty when I look on the Google. The goal is to accomplish ...
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What is the best practice in using LR/Enfuse?
I have Lightroom 4 and have downloaded LR/Enfuse for Mac.
I have checked out the information on using Enfuse but with my endeavours are not that happy with the results. That is I was expecting a ...
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How do I get such clear and detailed pictures like Aurelie Curie?
Often times I'm looking around and I find images that just seem to have this great balance and exposure to them that gives them such a stunning look.
I always wonder why I can never get similar ...
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What is the cheapest method to perform HDR? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the free HDR programs available for download?
I want to know the cheapest method to perform HDR with the cheapest non-professional camera.
List of softwares.
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Canon 5D Mark II, bracketed exposures with least number of steps to avoid camera shake?
I'm trying to devise a method where I can take more than just 3 bracketed exposures on the 5D Mark 2 while minimizing the steps to avoid moving or shaking the camera.
This is my current procedure...
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Using photoshop for night exposures with very high contrast
I am trying to obtain this effect during nightly shots:
1) A first capture with short exposure, potentially with very high ISO, to capture the stars as points. I'll later clean the noise.
2) A second ...
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How can I get a good HDR image from a single RAW file?
I've heard that it's possible to create an HDR image from a single RAW file. (Obviously, it won't be as good as using multiple bracketed RAW files; I know that much.)
Every time I try — using ...
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How to Take HDR Photos of Moving Objects?
How do I take great HDR photos of moving objects? By moving objects, I mean cities with cars, ocean with moving water, malls with people moving by.
I tried it on moving people and had noticeable ...
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Is the dynamic range affected by exposure time?
For a given scene, if I take 2 similar shots:
short exposure time (maybe using higher aperture, higher ISO...)
long exposure time (lower aperture or ISO)
The goal is to have the shots with the ...
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How does automatic HDR software work?
An HDR image is the combined image of varied exposures that give good detail of the subject in the photograph. How does HDR software know what part of the images to blend?
Manually, we know by ...
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How to make a landscape photo like Stanislav Perov?
I am a beginner in photography. Could some one explain how to make this photo?
There are some things that I would like to know:
what camera, lens(es) (eg shall I do it on crop camera, wide ...
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TV or AV bracketing for HDR imaging?
I have recently entered into the HDR world, and I'm a little confused. My new camera has bracketing features, 2 modes actually. One is TV bracketing and the other is AV bracketing. In other words, one ...
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HDR compared to Active D-Lighting
Could someone please explain the difference between the two?
Also are there cases where the one technique is more preferable over the other or a general rule of thumb?
thank you
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Photo is not as crisp as expected
During my experiments with HDR photography, I was intending to get some really great landscape shots and I was able to capture this picture.
However, I was expecting it to turn out a bit crisper than ...
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Lightroom 4.1 HDR (From other source than Photoshop)
I'm trying to use the new feature of lightroom 4.1 that allows us to edit 32bits floating point tif directly within Lightroom. The workflow seems easy enough when you have Photoshop but I do not.
I ...
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RAW HDR with Photomatix dramatically different images in preview vs final
I am just getting into photography and HDR photography. I downloaded the trial of Photomatrix to test out some photos of pictures I took in Washington DC. For better or worse I decided to take RAW ...
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How can I stop my HDR shots looking so fake?
All my attempts at HDR come out looking remarkably fake, how can I reduce the halos effect?
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What is DRI? And how does it differ from HDR?
I recently came across the term DRI meaning Dynamic Range Increase.
What exactly is it and how does it differ from HDR or High Dynamic Range (or is it the same thing just different terminology?
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How does exposure fusion work?
I understand that "exposure fusion" is a method for combining different exposures into a single image. How exactly does it work, and how is it related to HDR?
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Nikon D5100 - how to keep HDR activated after taking a shot?
I am using the HDR function for the first time lately and what I am finding is that after each image is taken the HDR will disable itself. So you have to go back into the menu and enable it again each ...
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How to achieve good scenic photos without HDR?
I've always had a problem getting exposure right with shots of the outdoors. I always seem to need to do manipulation which ends up in noisy photos.
I know HDR would sort it out, but I'm using a ...
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Can Canon DPP create HDR images from 3 RAW images?
I have installed the Canon Digital Photo Professional, which came with the T2i\550d.
Can DPP create an HDR Image from 3 RAW Images? If not, is there a good, free software for that?
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Is there any reason to take 3 RAW/JPG images to get most from HDR?
I'm new to photography and what I've seen so far:
ViewNX allow me to change exposure +2/-2 stops in RAW
HDR is about larger dynamic range and merging shadow details from overexposed image with ...
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What is the iHDR process?
I've seen references to the iHDR process. I would like to read a quick summary, but I'm not quite interested enough to watch a webinar. What is the basic idea of iHDR?
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Creating HDR images with Sony DSC-HX100V?
Yesterday I saw some very cool HDR images. Now I'm interested to try this by myself, but I'm a little bit unsure, if my camera (Sony DSC-HX100V) is capable of doing such pictures. If read that I need ...
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Is it possible to take automated multiple exposure stop pictures with a Canon Rebel
The camera type that I have is the Canon Rebel Xsi, and I was wondering if it is possible to take an automated series of variable exposure shots. For example, hold the shutter button down once, and ...
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How do I avoid white color in the sky near my subject with HDR photos?
I have created a HDR image from a single raw file. The way I have created it was
Open the RAW file in Photoshop camera raw.
Do some adjustments like enhancing the color, cropping etc.
Exporting the ...
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How can I make HDR images without the cartoon look?
I am processing some photos intended to show HDR and I mainly want to bring out all the tones of a scene, which is why I took three bracketed shots to begin with.
But pushing the detail pretty ...
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What is tone mapping? How does it relate to HDR?
Whenever I read / hear about HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, someone usually says something along the lines of "Actually, you're talking about tone mapping, not HDR."
Please can someone ...
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How to take HDR photos?
I have a Sony DSC-H10.
I recently learned why good pictures look so good -- their high dynamic range.
Is it possible (and if so, how) for me to take high-dynamic-range photos of scenes, perhaps ...
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How do pseudo or fake HDR programs like Photomatix work?
There are a few programs that can produce HDR-like results from only one input image. How do these work?
