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Photographer, Rob Hanson, has taken the time to create a detailed video tutorial to teach viewers how to make HDR photographs. The five part video series exams the editing process from start to finish. Hanson takes a set of three identical photographs at different exposures and combines them to create one perfectly exposed image. He uses a variety of programs throughout the series to create the finished product including Adobe Photoshop and a collection of plugins and filters to accompany it.

Beautiful time-lapse photography is difficult enough to achieve, but attempting it in HDR (high dynamic range) photography adds another layer of complexity as was done here successfully in France (Normandy & Britany). This means the photographer has to take bracketed photos at different exposure levels for each individual frame, and then post-process those bracketed sets […]

If you are interested in furthering your skills in HDR photography, this course can help. Trey Ratcliff just announced the release of an extensive HDR Photography training course which has received very good reviews. HDR photography (high dynamic range) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminance between the darkest […]

High dynamic range imaging (HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This has so far been an effort of photographers, but now film makers are making their first attempts as well: […]

Trey Ratcliff just announced the release of an in-depth HDR Photography training, something I am very eager to watch and study. I am a huge fan of Trey’s work, he is truly one of the pioneers in HDR photography. Frankly, I am a little surprised he is giving viewers an in-depth look at how he […]

Photomatix Light is designed for photographers who want a clean, straightforward introduction to HDR, but is powerful enough to produce superior-looking results. Photomatix Pro is the software preferred by the majority of professional HDR photos, but this light version was recently made available for photographers looking for a quicker and easier solution to producing professional […]

One of the most common problems photographers face is taking pictures with both a very bright and a very dark part in the image. In these cases, we usually end up sacrificing the brightest or the darkest part, leading to disappointing results. There is a technique, however, which can work out this problem, and it is called High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI).

High Dynamic Range imaging (HDR or HDRI) is a series of new photography technologies revolutionizing the quality of digital images. HDR is important because real world scenes contain light ranges usually exceeding 50,000:1 dynamic range.

An HDR image is of course only as good as the sequence of images captured to produce the final image. There are several considerations that have to be made, before capturing any images for HDR post-processing.