In my photography class we are doing some work with HDR images. HDR, high dynamic range, involves taking several photos of the same scene and them merging them together in software. In this case, I combined five images of this scene. By changing the shutter speed of each image, different parts of the scene are shown in detail. Combining the images gives you the ability to see everything at once. The other challenge to this assignment was to shoot at night, making lighting that much more of a issue. Here is one of my images:
ISO 160 50mm 0ev f/6.3 shutter speed varied
Getting the candle to turn out in the photo was a bit tough. One of the combined images was one where every thing turn out black except for a little bit of the flame. I used that image to make the candle less bright in this final image.
So, what do you think? Can you even tell that it was taken at night? HDR images are sometimes very otherworldly looking. This time I was going for a more natural look. Leave your thoughts in the comments section if you like.
Cheers!
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Excellent, I’m very impressed. I agree HDR images can be very computerised looking, this one is quite the opposite and looks like an indoor photo in a crypt or somewhere similar with low lighting rather than a night photo
Lovely
Xx
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Thanks, I’m glad you like it, this was quite a challenge for me 🙂
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Very nice. HDR is fun to work with. Here’s my latest HDR photo:
http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/utsikt-over-nydalen-en-vintermorgen/
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I really like the way the sky turned out. That is one of my favorite things about HDR is the way it can really just make a sky look awesome even if it wasn’t at the time.
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Yes, it can really ‘lift’ some photos. I like the way you’ve used it here, just a touch of hdr to bring out the details.
I see many people that are making over-saturated images with HDR, pulling all the sliders to the extreme, and I don’t really like it.
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I agree that it can be really overdone. Sometimes I think though when you are first using it, you can get a bit carried away, I know I still do sometimes. This particular exercise was useful to help keep that in line.
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The HDR technique is very difficult to be the right color, but this … STUNNING 🙂
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Thank you, I agree that HDR can present some challenges 🙂
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I’m not a photographer, so I don’t really know the technical aspects, but I have to say – this photo is marvelous! I love the quality of light.
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Thank you 🙂 Are you sure your not a photographer? I have seen a few of your pictures and I like them. Here is one of my recent favorites: http://dharmadawgs.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/weekly-photo-challenge-forward/
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I could not tell that this was taken at night if you didn’t say anything. Looks really good! Very natural!
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That is what I was going for, so I am glad to have fooled you 🙂
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I like the lighting – it gives a rich warm glow to the clay pots. Nicely done!
Blessings ~ Wendy
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Thank you 🙂
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I have erased off my mission of being able to capture candle light. Although I don’t know what to tell you. I just keep on changing function of my camera until I get the shot I want. I don’t take notes so I don’t remember how I did mine. You can see it on my blog titled Zilch.
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Do you have a link that you can add here? 🙂
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Oh wait, I found it: http://wp.me/sX93C-zilch Nice!
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I love this photo, just beautiful with the candlelight. Thank you for sharing, Maranto
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Thank you so much!
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Beautiful shot! How wonderful to learn advanced photography.
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It’s fun, but quite a challenge 🙂
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