in the past, before owning a camera, i’d seen some samples of hdr art. everyone likes it, there’s something about all that fake colors that makes us dream.
well, but it seemed a hard and tough result to achieve, i had read some tutorials for photoshop and gimp, and it looked like a pain in the arse. well, not anymore. i’m going to guide you through a few easy steps in order to achieve those amazing results!
step one:
get luminance hdr: http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/
step two:
use it!
result:
this is my first experience. i barely looked in the viewfinder, i just downloaded luminance hdr and ran out to get this scene. one of the main reasons i didn’t get the d3100 instead of this d7000 was the stupid absence of automatic bracketing… even at 5fps the scene, or my hand, moves, so having to change the exposure automatically and align the images must be really boring… yeah, i don’t own a tripod, yet. neither i would carry it at all times, even if i had…
It’a a pitty that most part of the DSLR cameras lack of a mode to take HDR photos (even by bracketing), luckily there is a firmware modd for some Canon DSLR’s that enables you to do much more than the original firmware, such as taking 3, 5, 7 or 9 photos with different and adjustable bracketing, awesome for HDR.
Also some really nice software for HDR: Dynamic Photo HDR
Well, I agree with the firmware makers! DSLRs are not “point and shoot, do everything for me”. Mine has some post-processing features available, but I have never used them. I use the machine to take photos, and forget about them until I get to the computer… From the camera I just want the best possible inputs from nature. I would always shoot raw if flickr supported backing up such format! =)