HDR

Tom and I heard Steve Traudt talk about HDR at NECCC and we got inspired. See previous articles about HDR here: http://lifethrulisaslens.blogspot.com/search?q=HDR

Images taken with most cameras today can only capture a limited range of brightness without under-exposing or over-exposing the image. HDR imaging looks to increase this range by combining the dynamic range (brightness values from shadows to highlights) from a series of images of the same scene into one HDR image. Read the rest here: http://www.smashandpeas.com/hdr-photography/

Here are a few of our samples.

From inside Abanakee Studios

Three images were taken, one very underexposed, one very overexposed.



This is the image properly exposed...

and this is the image optimized for the shadows AND for the highlights -- what a difference!

another view from inside.

Again, three images were taken, one very underexposed, one very overexposed and then the detail from the highlights and the details from the shadows are combined with the correct exposure. I also tried two different settings, one giving a more painterly appearance while the other results in a more sterotypic .

The photograph on the left is one was intentionally created to be too dark while the one on the right was intentionally created to be too dark

This was metered off the camera for "the correct exposure"

Here are two versions of HDR, the first the popular grungy and the second one a more painterly approach.