whats a good HDR camera

[silver163]

whats a good hdr camera?

 

[Sw1tchFX]

any camera, there's no such thing as an "HDR camera".

 

[Alex_B]

yes, any...

well, it should be capable to set exposure manually .. that is about it

 

[silver163]

so what exactly is "HDR" then? i searched around, looked on wiki, but i still dont get it. how can i get HDR photos?

 

[DSLR noob]

you take 3 photos of the same thing. One exposed correctly, one overexposed, and one underexposed then layered to show the details in the WHOLE range.

 

[silver163]

Is there some sort of tutorial on how to do this?

 

[silver163]

if you are to have one underexposed and one overexposed can you do that in photoshop and have one accurately exposed?

 

[Sw1tchFX]

Woodsac already explained how to do it with photomatix. This is how I get my results as well.


Woodsacs tutorial
http://thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=79744&highlight=photomatix

My newest HDR up on here:
http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81809

You can see that like woodsac, I do my HDR's for the over the top look. In the tutorial though, I think woodsac did it for visual accuracy.

 

[silver163]

Nice, but do the different exposers have to occur when taking the pictures or can they be changed with photoshop?

 

[Iron Flatline]

I believe for PS you actually need to have different exposures. Btw, you're not limited to 3 exposured, you could 7 or even more if you were inclined. Also, originally the idea of HDR was not a correct with an over- and under-exposed image, but rather seperate images exposed correctly for various aspects of an image, then combined to get all parts of the image exposed correctly. Semantic difference, I know...

 

[Sw1tchFX]

^^Right, i've done 20 exposure HDR's before, it just that 3 seems to do the trick 90% of the time.

Now you can make a tone-mapped image from a RAW file just with exposure compensation from CameraRAW, but that exposure compensation is nothing like the real deal.