All those talk about film can't be replaced, blah blah blah, rubbish! Here is a technique that is unique to digital photography, HDR, High Dynamic Range.
You must first understand that you DSLR can only capture a portion of the histogram.
Let say you staring out your window (Purple histogram), the light that your eyes can see (Orange) is a lot higher than the digital camera can (Green).
So all that HDR is, is taking 4~7 different photographs so that you cover all the areas where the camera can't, like the camera is half blind!
Okay, that's all the tech talk you need to know!
Go find an awesome place, take 4 or more photographs capturing the whole histogram.
Take your perfect exposure, then work out the darkest range (use your histogram),
normally it's -8 f.stops; -4 f.stops; 0 (perfect exposure); +4 f.stops; +8 f.stops.
Moving in incriments of 4 clicks, you should end up with something like this:
Now... you need the following tools:
- Aperture or Lightroom
- Photomatrix (http://www.hdrsoft.com)
Whack the series in Aperture or lightroom and combine them with Photomatrix.
Remember, only tune your white balance before merging, nothing else, do the rest once you have the HDR. Once you are done with the merging, you should end up with something like this:
The colour, lighting, contrast, detail is 4~7 time better than your original shot.
I've tried 5 different types of software, read over 6 books on this technique, trust me, this is the easiest way, don't waste your time researching on other stuff.
This is HDR, have fun guys. Feel free to contact me if you have any queries, i'll try my best to help you out as long as you share your final photo with me :)
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