![]() ![]() You can the see the sky is pretty bright and the shadows are pretty dark. This is what a camera will typically record in situations like this. This is a single exposure taken of a pub in Ireland at sunrise. Here’s a perfect example of what we are talking about. So it becomes a trade-off of sorts: do you want some detail visible in the shadows but a blown out sky, or do you want a nice balanced sky with absolutely nothing visible in the shadows? ![]() What this results in is that either the highlights will be darkened enough to be usable (resulting in extremely dark shadows that are unusable), or the shadows will be brightened enough to be usable (resulting in highlights that are blown out and thus unusable). In either case, your camera will not record light evenly across the scene, because it generally cannot do so in a single image (unlike the human eye, which can see it all and adjust accordingly). You see, in a single photo, the camera will generally expose (based on the chosen settings) either for the highlights in a scene or for the shadows. HDR can overcome that issue and help you tell a better visual story. What limitations, you ask? Have you ever shown a photo to your friends, and then said, “Well, it looked a lot better than that - you just had to be there”? It’s used by new photographers and experienced photographers alike, and offers the photographer a very interesting, useful and highly effective way to overcome the limitations of our camera sensors. HDR (short for High Dynamic Range) is a very popular technique among photographers and a frequent discussion topic across social media and photography forums. ![]()
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