Lessons
Class Introduction
04:44 2Bracketing
10:31 3How to Set-up Bracketing
02:54 4Tools to Capture HDR Better
02:09 5Scenes for Good HDR
07:49 6Process Images in Lightroom® & Photoshop
10:52 7Hyper HDR Style with Photomatix
11:39 8Post Processing in Lightroom®
07:56Lesson Info
How to Set-up Bracketing
What I tell people, is a lot of the times what you wanna do, is you wanna be able to spend some time talking about how to be able to work with the mechanics of your camera. Do that, set it up. Inside of the camera, like usually on a Canon camera, you have a section that'll have an exposure compensation area and inside of there by some jiggling and finagling of your controls obviously, RTFM, Read The Frigging Manual, you can go in there and you can set how many stops of exposure you can have for that. If you are a Fuji inclined person, it would be the same thing. You would have a series of bracketed settings and inside of there, you would check your exposure bracketing and the exposure bracketing would give you a series of different things that you could do with that. You could go inside of your exposure bracketing area and then inside of there you could say; well how many frames do I want and what are there steps that I'm looking for? I would like to have one shot, three shot five shot...
s, seven shots and those individual shots, I would like to have a third of a step, a half of a step, one step, two steps apart. For the Nikon folks, you hit your bracket button, there's usually a bracket button. Once you press that bracketing button, you can go inside with most of these command dials. And inside of the command dials themselves, you can use a sub command dial and you can control how many frames the three is telling you that I'm gonna do three frames. And with the set command dial, you can control how many stops apart those things are. So all you gotta do is find out how many you can do, how many can your camera do, how many steps can you do and then go from there. I tend to get a little sketched out about going to stops apart but up to you. I didn't make these videos. There's a company that I use for producing software that does the software that I use for HDR stuffs. A company called HDRsoft.comm. They produce a piece of software called Photomatix. So Photomatix is what I generally use when I want that kind of extreme look. They have a really cool set of videos that deal with how to be able to set your camera's. Gonna take a look at it there.
Ratings and Reviews
Liz Farrell
It truly doesn't matter if this instructor creates work that looks different from what I like to make. What I got from this course were skills I needed to try something new. (In my case, I watched this before doing some interior photography, knowing I would need to use HDR in Lightroom.) RC teaches you how to set the camera up for bracketing and how HDR software works (in Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.) Apply your own creative aesthetic once you nail down these basics and you'll thank him, too.
Wayne
Just what I was looking for. Basics of what HDR is and the basic steps to do it. I do not care yet about making it realistic or not. I can get into advanced features later, but I am strongly leaning towards non-natural, more impressionistic, looks.