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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
You have to use an editing program to do it....something a bit more complicated that Photoscape...something like Adobe Photoshop.
I have adobe photoshop and the manual......which is as thick as a phone book(well perhaps not quite as thick - but it makes me feel as thick as a phone book)....and I still haven't got to grips with it.
I was offered a tutorial by someone who seems to have acquired these skills, but I declined as life was just a bit full on at the time......and I'm not entirely sure I would actually want to use the skill...but I hate to be beaten.
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I think that is my reason for the question, I don't have the facility on my camera to bracket the shots automatically, and to do the same manually would require a tripod, if I have understood the method. Three shots, one at the right exposure one stepped down and one stepped up.
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Originally Posted by churchfcrules
dave hdr is just taking 3 or more photos at different exposure levels, so for example a sky that is "white out" but the foreground is clear then with a lower exposure you get the clouds but the foreground is dark and lose detail, you then use photoshop to "merge HDR", it then merges all of the photos together so you get all of the detail
i use cs6 on my mac and it does it all for me, quite happy to meet up some time and show you.
a lot of cameras now have an AEB (auto exposure bracketing) so you set the exposure to the correct one for a normal photo, then the camera will take one either side, i have mine set to 5 so it takes 2 either side, at 1/4 stop each photo, hope i have explained it.
as i say if you want to nip round or meet up sometime will show you
good for landscapes, but i dont use it all of the time just on the odd ones, but it comes in handy sometimes if you have got the exposure wrong, i also use raw rather than jpg, but thats another waffle sometime
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Church I thank you for the explanation, and yes you explained it to a point that I understood, and the offer to instruct me as to the workings of the world of HDR, I thank you for both.
However, and this is the rub, I am not a fan of a lot of the HDR's I think they are, shall we say "not for me" and some I have seen , I don't like at all. I was just curious how the end result was arrived at.
Some sites I have looked at, some photographers use HDR all the time, and some shots look very "chocolate box" to me. I do however respect people who choose to use the method and would not want to sway people away from using the method if they chose to do so, but not me.