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.
Overview
Syllabus
1. Introduction
- Welcome
- What you need for this course
- Using the exercise files
- 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
- Finding HDR subject matter
- Shooting HDR
- Workflow and organization
- Using gradient masks to improve dynamic range
- More dynamic range masking
- Masking with brushes
- 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
- 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
- Goodbye
Taught by
Ben Long
