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Most of the people are trying their hand at HDR photography. Today we are going to do a complete walk through of how this great system works. If you aren't familiar with HDR, it full form is High Dynamic Range meaning you are provided with an image with a wider tonal range which can add feature to shadowed parts while managing detail in very dazzling place. How it accomplishes this is by using a series of images with dissimilar revelations and then merging the images into a finishing image merging data from every of the images. The outcome can be amazing.
For instance, I took an 3 shot exposure bracket, meaning the camera took one underexposed picture, second normally exposed image, and one bright image, this is generally enough for a actually good image.
We have obtained that applying HDR Darkroom will offer some of the best realistic results found. During Photoshop CS5 and Photomatix Pro both have HDR merging capabilities, HDR Darkroom still does a better work. Once we have the images we need, we require to process them. Once you are in HDR Darkroom, go to the File menu and choose Create HDR
Next, you should to choose the photos you wish to use to comprise your HDR image, you can browse to the folder you want and select your pictures.
The next step is select if you want the images to be aligned before creating the HDR and exposure option (If you are not confident about the whether the EXIF data is available in the photos, we suggest that you select the Guess alternative.) and then select OK.
After a little while of processing the images, HDR Darkroom will display an image that you will feel it is a standard image. But this is not the last step of your HDR work, we still have another process to perform before it will look more beautiful.
To use the tone mapping, click at the Process menu and choose Tone Mapping, this will get up another screen with a series of alternative to well tune the image. In most cases, I am going to select the "Local Tone Enhancer" technique and then make the excellent tuning options with the sliders.
You should now have an image that is extremely affluent in features. You can instantly see in the following images that details from the sky are quite bright and the detail in the tank part which was basically just blacked out areas in the rest of photographs except for the overexposed image.
As you can see, HDR processing can add an amazing new element to your photography.
