HDR or High Dynamic Range photography is a technique that allows you to take images of scenes with very bright and very dark areas in the same photo. It uses several different exposures of the same scene to create one image. Basically what you do is put your camera on a tripod and take pictures at different exposures without moving it and then later combine them in post processing into one image.
This technique was invented in 1986 by Charles Caughlin, although it was used even before that to create images of landscapes in black and white, so basically HDR is not something new.
The first mention of this process on the internet I have found has been from 2005 on www.hdrlabs.com website where you can buy the HDR software for creating these kinds of photos.
High Dynamic Range Photography is a technique for photography and imaging, whereby a greater dynamic range of luminosity levels is captured in-camera using multiple exposures or by merging separately captured images.
HDR images can be created from conventional digital image or scanned film photographs, as well as from “raw” image formats where they may also be called raw files or digital negatives. An image created from several exposures of the same scene that is not merged during capture (such as a typical landscape photograph) is often still considered an HDR image, although the term is more commonly used to describe composite images.
There is a technique of photography that allows you to take pictures with greater contrast than normal. It’s called High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography, and was developed by photographers in search of better ways to capture the intensity of light present in some scenes. The resulting photographs can have a much greater range of details visible at different levels of brightness, compared to those taken with standard cameras.
To create HDR images, the photographer takes bracketed shots: the same scene is captured at different exposures (using different shutter speeds). The different exposures are then merged into a single photo, using software that has been specifically designed to create HDR images (like Photomatix Pro or Photoshop CS4). This allows photographers to manipulate their images in ways that would be impossible using standard means such as exposure or contrast adjustments.
Tone mapping is an essential part of this process. Tone mapping allows for adjusting the tonal values (amounts of light) in an image after it has been created through merging multiple exposures. This is done through an automatic process, where different tonal values are distributed across multiple tones on a scale from black to white. The tone mapping process is what makes HDR images look so vibrant, as it brings out all the details present in each exposure used for the final image
It’s hard to imagine a more exciting time to be working in photography right now. From the popularity of the digital camera, to the massive shift towards digital photography and even the huge strides made in digital printing, there is an excitement and energy around photography like never before.
One of the most exciting developments has been the rise of High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. For decades, photographers were limited by the dynamic range of film. A typical slide film might have a range from 4 to 6 stops, with 8 being about average. With film, one just had to accept that there were limits to what could be done. There was no way for a photographer to create images containing both bright and dark areas without having to resort to tricks like dodging or burning in order to get detail in both areas. But with HDR photography, it’s possible to take several exposures at different exposures and then blend them together into a single image that contains details from highlight to shadow.
HDR photos are typically created by blending multiple exposures of the same scene. It requires a lot of post-processing work in Photoshop, but the result is undeniably impressive.
However, there is now a way to create those surreal images without spending hours in front of your computer. A new technique called “expo stacking” can make it possible to achieve the same effect in camera, enabling you to create stunning images with just one click.
In this article we take a look at what expo stacking is, how it works and how you can use it on your own photos.
It is often said that art imitates life, but what if life also imitates art? Photography
This would be a great opportunity for you to talk about your own first experiences with art and how it made you feel. Did you want to draw, paint or sculpt like the artists you admired? Did you think maybe your drawings were not as good as theirs? If so, when did you learn that you didn’t have to be good at drawing to enjoy art?
Did your parents take you to museums? Did they encourage your interest in art? Did they give you sketchbooks and pencils for Christmas? Did they buy art for your walls and show off their own art on their shelves? Maybe they didn’t appreciate art. Maybe no one in your family had any artistic talent or any appreciation of it.
How did that influence you?[1]
How has your relationship with art changed over time? How do you feel now that you are older than the people who taught you to draw and paint when you were young? Do they understand what is driving your interest in art now? Do they like the things you make now as much as some of the things made when you were a child or a teen?”
