HDR Photography: Shooting and Processing

Join photographer Ben Long to learn about high dynamic range (HDR) photography, a technique that broadens the luminance or range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image.

1. Introduction

• Welcome
• What you need for this course
• Using the exercise files

2. What Is HDR?

• Dynamic range defined
• Understanding bit depth
• Image sensor and shadows
• Three methods for capturing more dynamic range
• HDR shooting and processing
• Single-shot HDR
• When to use HDR

3. Shooting and Organizing HDR

• Finding HDR subject matter
• Shooting HDR
• Workflow and organization

4. Expanding Dynamic Range Through Masking

• Using gradient masks to improve dynamic range
• More dynamic range masking
• Masking with brushes

5. Processing Multi-Shot HDR Images in Photoshop CS5

• Creating an HDR image in Photoshop
• Creating an HDR image in Photomatix
• Creating an HDR in HDR Efex
• Merging in Photoshop and processing elsewhere
• Using Tone Compressor in Photomatix
• Using Exposure Fusion in Photomatix
• Single-shot HDR images in Photomatix
• Single-shot HDR images in HDR Efex
• Single-shot HDR images in Photoshop
• Ghosting and Photoshop
• Ghosting and HDR Efex
• Ghosting and Photomatix
• Batch processing in Photomatix

6. Additional Retouching and Finishing

• Reducing noise and correcting chromatic aberrations
• Finishing an image
• Handling HDR images that are "flat"
• Combining HDR and LDR
• Selective editing with HDR Efex Pro
• HDR that doesn't look like HDR
• Tone mapping troubles to watch for
• Why use HDR for black-and-white images?
• Black-and-white HDR
• Panoramic HDR
• HDR time lapse
• Processing the trestle image

Conclusion

• Goodbye