High Dynamic Range (HDR) Shots

Feb 20, 2014 by misa33

I just learned how to shoot an HDR shot- or shots. On my camera I do not have bracketing so I had to perform bracketing manually. For those of you reading this that don’t know what an HDR shot is, they are a collection of images that vary in composition (over exposed, underexposed) placed together to get the perfect composition. I used the free version of Photomatrix since I can’t afford the real version right now.

Doctors Desk:

I was very pleased at how well this image came out. This was in an old doctor’s house. The wood has more definition , the reflection is much more defined than it was in any of the three images this one image was composed from. The colors are just amazing!

1. Friday February 14th 2014, 11:27am, Bannack Montana, Nikon D3100, f/14, Shutter speed: .5sec

2. Friday February 14th 2014, 11:26am, Bannack Montana, Nikon D3100, f/14, Shutter speed: 2.5sec

3. Friday February 14th 2014, 11:26am, Bannack Montana, Nikon D3100, f/14, Shutter speed: 8.0sec

Floral Print Water Pitcher:

This was just one image re-composed in Photomatrix. It brought out a lot more definition to the pitcher especially. This was also in the doctors house.