High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

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High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

Post by Harold Gough »

I've just found an article on this subject in the Christmas issue (108) of Outdoor Photographer. As is the case with stacking, this is strictly digital territory and wondered if combining the two had been done:

http://www.nextbigleap.com/blog/photogr ... otography/

http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/ente ... otography/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/

http://www.hdrsoft.com/

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Re: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

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Harold Gough wrote:wondered if combining the two had been done
Sure. See the fifth illustration on the Tufuse home page:
21 different images (not shown here) fused into three exposure and focus blended composite images, and then stitched into a (vertical) panoramic image.
For deep stacks, which are expensive to shoot at multiple exposures, the sixth illustration shows what would normally be a more practical approach. Shoot a single stack, then use a "pseudo HDR" technique to bring out detail that would otherwise be hidden in very dark or very light areas.

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Post by AndrewC »

Yup, somewhere I've got a stacked, stitched and HDR image of some club moss. It was only a 2x3 pano and done mainly as a technical exercise but think:

2 rows
3 columns
5 planes of focus
3 exposures

that was 90 images to combine and was a pretty modest attempt.

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Re: High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

Post by Joseph S. Wisniewski »

Harold Gough wrote:As is the case with stacking, this is strictly digital territory
Hah!

I learned both those techniques in the darkroom 25+ years ago, using rubylith masks.

Four shots is a lot for a focus stack in a darkroom, two is plenty for HDR ;)

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Post by Harold Gough »

Tricky for trannies, though, unless I make very thick sandwiches!

:smt102

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