Smashing Magazine has a list of 35 extremely beautiful HDR pictures. These are really high dynamic range pictures tone-mapped for displays (like your monitors) with limited dynamic range.
If you are interested in checking out more HDR pictures, please visit Flickr’s HDR group pool.
For some unknown reasons, Nikon decided to skip the automatic exposure bracketing feature on the D40 and D40X DSLR cameras. For people who are interested in high dynamic range (HDR) photography using D40/D40X, this is a convenient feature that is missing. However you can still do HDR photography without it using D40/D40X. Here are two ways of doing that. Read More…
The imaging sensor technology has been advancing rapidly in recently years. However the sensor dynamic range (DR) is still not quite wide enough to be comparable to human eyes, let alone capture the high dynamic landscape scenes.
Have you been struggling to expose the sky properly but the main subject or foreground turned out too dark? Or you managed to expose the main subject but the sky was completely overexposed and appeared washed out? You were disappointed and frustrated, and wondering if the big name camera manufacturer’s next $8000 product is what you need… You are not alone with these dynamic range challenged landscape photography situations. Here are some tips that may help you out without breaking the bank.
For many exposure bracketing shooting situations, the photographer just wants to ensure a photo with proper exposure is captured without worrying too much about the slight movements between the shots since other over or under exposed photos will most likely be discarded. For HDR photography, the requirements are more strict. Every photo counts for the quality of the final image. You should try to avoid anything that may cause blurring in the merged image. What does this mean? Read More…
