Hands-on HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography
Cajetan Barretto has been taking some amazing HDR shots here in Kuwait and a few days ago he posted a step by step guide on how to achieve photos of similar caliber. Its fairly easy but I haven’t been able to replicate anything as good as his stuff. Will keep trying.
Cajetan’s HDR guide [Link]
Cajetan’s Kuwait HDR pictures [Link]
Note: The picture above is by Cajetan
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Apr 29, 2006
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13 Comments, add your own...
1. Pearls | April 29th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Amazing, it looks so real! I want to learn how to do that.
2. Mark | April 29th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
the idea is pretty basic. shoot the same shot in a variety of exposures.. and then merge them. you can use your Sony cam, you just need Photoshop CS2
3. Marzouq | April 29th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
That is fucking sick!!! I will try the tutorial! That where I always end up parking the bike and taking a drink of water!!
4. Carlsb3rg | April 29th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
The pics look so colourful. Very pleasing to watch them.
5. SAF1 | April 29th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
A-mazing ! Im trying this pronto.
6. talisman | April 29th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I wish i knew how to use a camera :(
7. fadibou | April 29th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
The pics truly look amazing but its fake.
Anyway thank you Mark for a great tip.
8. cyberrowdy | April 29th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
thats great!
9. Cajetan Barretto | April 30th, 2006 at 8:45 am
Hi All,
I found this great blog by accident. Thank you for all your positive comments.
Fadibou, I can assure you that the picture is not a fake. It is just a technique of adding extra dynamic range to your photos.
Dynamic range is currently a challenge for digital sensors. Fuji recently introducted their
Super CCD SR sensor which is actually 2 sensors stuck next to each other. One sensor is designed to capture the highlights, and the other is optimized to capture the shadows.
More details at….
http://www.dcviews.com/press/Fuji-S3-ProX.htm
HDR is simply a software based implemention of the same thing. I agree that the tone mapping can sometimes give painting-like effects. But on the whole, it is a great tool to capture panaromas & architechture.
10. fadibou | April 30th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Cajetan: Canon’s next sensro due this summer covers HDR (that’s what they promise) but I feel that less power is giving to the photographer and more to the camera which make the photographer just a clicker or a composer no more.
Maybe its good after all
11. Cajetan Barretto | April 30th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
fadibou: I agree with you. It is something akin to what happened when slide film was more or less replaced by print film. Slide film has a narrow latitude, similar to the CCD or CMOS sensors of today’s cameras, while the print film has a much wider latitude.
Just as every mom & pop could take great photos with their dinky point & shoot film cameras, similar explosion would probably happen if HDR type sensors start appearing on point & shoot digital cameras.
As you rightly said, it may be a good thing at the end.
12. tim | May 1st, 2006 at 5:04 am
wow… makes Kuwait look… nice!
13. Entrepreneur | May 2nd, 2006 at 12:04 am
Look forth at our luscious meddows and litter free streets
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