Outdoors,  Photography

To HDR or To Not HDR

8 May 2011 / 2 Comments

I have two version of the photo above. One is a single exposure, and the other is a composite created using High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques. The HDR version is comprised of seven separate exposures of the same scene, each differing in shutter speed by one stop. The HDR was created using the local adaptation method in Photoshop, and then had some contrast re-introduced after down-converting to 16-bit color. The single exposure is the middle exposure from the seven-shot set,…
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2 Comments

  • james sabulsky

    8 May 2011 at 23:39

    I like the single exposure one, it seems to me to have more vibrant colors

  • kevin houle

    9 May 2011 at 09:31

    Untrained eye: sky in HDR image isn’t mostly washed out like single exposure. I don’t have the vocabulary to describe the rest, but I’m okay with lack of ‘vibrant’, the color and contrast seem more complete and richer in HDR image.