Posted by Raphael on Nov 18, 2008 in Photography | 0 comments

A client suggested I do a personal class on HDR work on his photography. I think that might be fun. For those that don’t know what HDR is, it stands for “High Dynamic Range” — photography speak for what is essentially taking multiple shots of the same image in different exposures and then combining them into one shot.

The result is you get an image that should look closer to what your eyes really saw when you took the photograph (you don’t get skies that look all white and blown out, nor do you get subjects that are all shadowy and dark)

There are people that argue back and forth about whether that’s considered “photography” at all. I don’t think it’s necessary a bad thing though…it’s just another creative method out there among many.  I’ve goofed around with it enough to know how to do it…I think it’d be fun to actually try to set up a HDR bootcamp and actually get some real results one day.

Toxel’s got some good examples of what you can do with HDR.  Some of them might be too fake looking but overall they’re fun to look at. (via: Toxel.com)