HDR with Film

[robertandrewphoto]

I am takin a film class for school this semester and finally have access to a darkroom. I posted about this a while ago to find out if it was even possible and I now know that it is.

So far my approach to this will be the "expose for shadows, develop for highlights" method, but I'd like to know if anyone else has tried this or has experience with it and has any tips.

 

[Bynx]

Im curious to know why you would take a film class. It seems practical if you are setting up a darkroom or you at least regularly shoot film. Just seems a waste of time to me. In film if you have an overerexposed section you can burn the paper longer and bring out an image. Its the opposite with digital. Underexposed areas on an image can be brought out with software.

 

[D-B-J]

Dodging and burning will get you your film "HDR"

 

[Helen B]

'Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights', exemplified by the Zone System, will give you the basic HDR image, as you say. Dodging and burning, chemical dodging, masking, split-grade printing etc will give you the tone mapping. For colour neg film just expose for the shadows and let the enormous dynamic range of the film cope with the highlights as well as they can. If you are scanning the film you can do multiple scans of the neg at different settings (or even multiple film exposures if necessary) and combine them like you would do with digital HDRI.

 

[robertandrewphoto]

Im curious to know why you would take a film class. It seems practical if you are setting up a darkroom or you at least regularly shoot film. Just seems a waste of time to me. In film if you have an overerexposed section you can burn the paper longer and bring out an image. Its the opposite with digital. Underexposed areas on an image can be brought out with software.

I'm taking it to simply learn more about the other end of photography, and I can review the basics of photography. And i plan on shooting film occassionally, just depends on if I like this class.