Anyone find themselves getting so caught up with HDR that you no longer take just one shot without bracketing?
Aug 20, 2009 18:22 | #1 Anyone find themselves getting so caught up with HDR that you no longer take just one shot without bracketing? Sony A7r, Sony 16-35 f4, Canon 1d3, Canon 70-200 f4L, Sigma 150-600 contemporary, G1X, Lee filter holder and gnd's, Singh-Ray reverse gnd
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MikeFairbanks Cream of the Crop 6,428 posts Likes: 2 Joined Jun 2009 More info | Aug 20, 2009 18:33 | #2 Yeah, it's happening to me a lot. Thank you.
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samueli Goldmember  More info | I was like that for awhile when I first found HDR. Once I got some practice in setting a curve in the HDR programs, I realized that I really didn't need multiple images that often, and could achieve what I wanted easier with curves and color luminosity on one image.
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tonylong ...winded  More info | Aug 20, 2009 23:00 | #4 I got into learning HDR, the basics, auto and blending and multi-processing Raw files. You can come up with some great results. These days, I have been happy working to get the best out of one good Raw file, like you see in our RAW Conversion Thread. Tony
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Aug 21, 2009 16:31 | #5 I played wth HDR a bit, but very quickly disliked the results - they look great ... for a sci-fi comic strip... way too artificial and overdone for a photo - and when they look right, to me at least, there's little difference between HDR and a decent no-HDR photo. Ex-Canon shooter. Now Sony Nex.
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Aug 21, 2009 18:00 | #6 Yeah, I think I must focus on trying to capture a good exposure and get away from using this technique as a crutch. Sony A7r, Sony 16-35 f4, Canon 1d3, Canon 70-200 f4L, Sigma 150-600 contemporary, G1X, Lee filter holder and gnd's, Singh-Ray reverse gnd
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agedbriar Goldmember  2,657 posts Likes: 399 Joined Jan 2007 Location: Slovenia More info | Aug 22, 2009 08:16 | #7 Amamba wrote in post #8500853  I played wth HDR a bit, but very quickly disliked the results - they look great ... for a sci-fi comic strip... way too artificial and overdone for a photo - and when they look right, to me at least, there's little difference between HDR and a decent no-HDR photo. Exactly the same here.
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Scottes Trigger Man - POTN Retired  12,842 posts Likes: 10 Joined Nov 2003 Location: A Little North Of Boston, MA, USA More info | Aug 23, 2009 14:32 | #8 HDR is one thing.  The darker shot on the left didn't capture any detail of the reflections in the water, no detail in the front edge of the dock, and barely captured the lobster pots. The second shot captured all of those details, but blew out many of the brighter details like the boat and warehouse in the background. This scene had too much dynamic range for my 50D to capture. Here's the resulting pano, with much more detail in the shadow areas, and some more in the highlights:  HDR can give you much more detail when the camera can't capture the full dynamic range. An HDR image still needs tone-mapping to have any chance of reproducing decently in a low-dynamic medium like a monitor. For this scene, I chose to do a realistic tone-mapping, trying to get the resulting image to look like the scene my eyes saw that morning. While I probably wasn't terribly accurate, this is closer to what I saw than either of the original captures at the start of this post. So if you're shooting a scene that you think might have more dynamic range than your camera will capture, then bracket some extra shots. If you don't use them, there's not much lost besides a little disk space. But you might find it beneficial to run the shots through an HDR program and get a final image that shows more dynamic range than any single exposure would. And you can't go back in time to take those extra bracketed shots, so do it now and worry about it later. HDR is not grunge tone-mapping, and grunge tone-mapping is not HDR. You can take my 100-400 L away when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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sas8888 Senior Member  835 posts Likes: 8 Joined Jun 2007 Location: Porto de Galinhas, Brazil More info | Aug 24, 2009 10:14 | #9 I have been shooting a lot of HDR as a lot of my photos lately have had a high dynamic range in them such as a garden with lots of trees that I need to catch the buildings in the background in the sun. These will be used in a brochure and website. This is what I use HDR for.  Taking photos indoors during the day and still showing the landscape outside is also helpful with HDR if you don't have a lot a strobes to carry around.  I consider HDR just another tool that I have in my bag. Same as all my other gear. Scott
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Aug 24, 2009 17:10 | #10 Thanks everyone; those last two posts are great examples of when you need HDR. Sony A7r, Sony 16-35 f4, Canon 1d3, Canon 70-200 f4L, Sigma 150-600 contemporary, G1X, Lee filter holder and gnd's, Singh-Ray reverse gnd
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