Kerry Nicol

While I was browsing Flickr this morning I came across a group dedicated to HDR. The images in the group look interesting, my curiosity spiked. But firstly, what is HDR? HDR refers to “high dynamic range”, take a few shots with ranging exposures and merge them together. This sounds like a great technique when photographing a high contrast scene where the highlights are blown out or the shadows are dark and flat.

I have much to learn about the exact methods behind this technique and will continue to find out more. Here are some links of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/discuss/40580/
http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html

At hdrsoft there are two options, their standalone application or a plugin for Photoshop CS2. The HDR group on Flickr mentions that many of it’s members prefer the standalone application, so I think I will try this one first.

Enough with the sitting on my bum at the computer, time to go out and shoot some high contrast scenes.

This image is from the hdrsoft website. More HDR examples can be found on the hdrsoft examples page.