How do you create great and successful HDR images?. It is a question that photographers or person who love photograph always query and wanna find the best answer. Understanding their anxiety, here are list of 5 tips to shoot great HDR images that we wanna show and share readers.
Using Tripod
While most HDR rendering software can attempt to line up images, you really want clear consistent frames because stability is key. Using tripod will one of an amazing way to support your images project. A tripod will not only allow you to stabilize each individual image and some of which may be fairly long shutter speeds but also get you better quality. In addition, tripod also allow you to avoid touching the camera while making frames. This will good for sequences and long exposures.
Don’t tone map a single exposure and call it HDR
As far as we know, when they or you shoot an images, you can create an underexposed, neutral, and over exposed image in Lightroom from the same RAW file, and then merge those three images into one HDR photo, but it’s really not the same as capturing individual images. And you always ask yourself why?. It is simple that when you capture one exposure at a given set of settings of this exposure values on the exposure triangle you are recording data within that given range. And whatever you do, you can not also change this data, you only change the way to show images when they are on the screen.
When you capture three or more images at different exposures (EV), then those three images are all going to have different levels of data from which you can pull; allowing for a truly high dynamic range photograph. The more images you capture the more data you’ll have at your disposal.
Know when you need HDR and when you don’t
HDR all about light or it stands for ‘high dynamic range’. Sometimes it’s from a single file. Often it means getting various exposures at different lightness levels. It is simple thing that we should know and understand when need HDR and when don’t to have a best preparation. If you’re photographing a scene where the lighting is fairly even from shadows to highlights, you don’t need to do HDR.
So, when you need HDR?
Using it during sunrise or sunset, especially when you are photographing into the sun. Or use it to photograph architecture or man-made objects are great ideas for your project.
Invest software technology
To make a good meal, you should know great raw materials and understand the processing of raw materials and refining product. Like a good meal, to shoot a beautiful images, you need also to prepare many things to ensure high – quality pictures as great and lighting space to create stunning images anaphase.
Here, we will show you two great programs that we have experiences: HDR Soft’s Photomatix Pro or Nik Software’s HDR Efex Pro. There are two programs that have free version, but we think that they don’t do as good of a job at tone mapping. Remember the tone mapping process is done algorithmically so the more powerful the software’s algorithms, the better the end results.
Control yourself
This is one of reasons of the argument when using HDR. Some people say that it’s their style to create over the top, surrealistic style and other’s say that they are destroying the world of photography by creating these highly saturated and oddly lit photographs.
It’s easy to get carried away with tone mapping your images, but if your goal is to recreate what you saw, the best way to do this is to remember to tone it down a bit before you press that process button.
Here are some useful sharing for HRD images, we hope that you will find its interesting. And with these 5 tips are good start to get you on the right track to capture your first high dynamic range photos. If you have some tips, let’s add to the list? Leave one in the comments below!.