In fact, sometimes filters aren’t necessarily the best choice. If you do that, then you’ll probably find you have a shot not far from what you were hoping to achieve with filters. Process with caution, and remember that you’re trying to produce an image that reflects the scene as you saw it (and not one that has been painted by a child with their neon felt-tip pens they got for Christmas). In my week in Sicily, I learned that HDR really isn’t the big, bad, over-saturated monster that it is often made out to be online. The result? Well, I bet if this wasn’t in an HDR article you wouldn’t believe me. If you don’t want to visit Sicily by the end of this, then I don’t know what you’re waiting for! This image was created with just two frames (the lighter exposure of the three was blurred, thanks to my forced hand holding of the camera due to lack of available tripod plate… again). Surely further images are going to look fake? Sicily did not disappoint with its incredible sunsets, but with a lack of filters, I had no choice but to keep shooting away with bracketed shots in order to capture detail in both the sky and the foreground.Īnother evening and another incredible view. Not bad, right? Here are the three bracketed shots that the above image was birthed from (my processing involved some cropping and a little vibrance adjustment): The results were well above my expectations for an HDR shot. Upon importing my photos later into Lightroom, I enabled a Merge to HDR of the three frames into one image. Nevertheless, I took the three shot bracket. Why oh why did I leave my tripod plate at home?! An incredible backdrop of rolling hills seen through a small window of an old ruined castle was begging to be photographed. The view in front of me was too beautiful to ignore. With few other options remaining, I enabled a 3-shot bracket. The bracketing button, on the side of my Nikon DSLR, appeared to glisten in the evening light, whispering and beckoning me towards the HDR life. My unlikely knight in shining armor was the bracketing setting on my camera. Even so, I was kicking myself that I couldn’t use my grad filters at sunset to photograph an amazing sky. I think I can be forgiven, as I was there for pleasure, not business. But I couldn’t see why I’d want to take “fake” looking photos, assuming I’d be ridiculed for it online.īut that all changed recently when I took all my filters and tripods on a plane to Sicily but forgot the tripod plate. I’ve never really tried it myself beyond a few shots, and definitely not in recent years. I have been on the hate it side of HDR for a long time. If you’re Australian, then I’m referring to Vegemite, of course. HDR is quite a Marmite thing – you either love it or you hate it. There’s a lot of HDR images online that are heavily processed, look incredibly fake and over-saturated, and consequently, photographers avoid it like the plague. HDR, or high dynamic range, photography gets a bit of a bad wrap.
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