HDR = High Dynamic Range. This technique has to do with stacking multiple images of different exposures on top of each other, followed by Tone Mapping. There is a lot of confusion between the two.
Take a look at these 3 images, especially the cargo hatch of this helicopter.
This first would be a normal exposure. Do you see how the detail of the cargo bay is lost?
So you take a second exposure to get the details of everything in the shade.
And a third to capture details in lost highlights.
Stack them together in PS and then Tone Map. Its a lot of fun. There are a lot of tricks to doing this and making it work right. Itll be on the DVD,
I had to keep going back over each photo to see the difference between each photo. The final photo is so different. I love how the floor of all things has so much more detail than the other photos. Great stuff.
I absolutely love the end results…awesome technique!!!!!
i love the garage floor.
It’s almost like a painting, but more beautiful because it’s a real photo, the end result is pure art.
Looks good M.
What was the light smoothing set to?
I can’t believe you’re holding out on us like this! This is exactly the effect I’ve been trying to achieve, but with very sad results. I even got Photomatix, but I can’t get that…glow that you’ve mastered. OK, now you have to step up the video. This one can’t wait.
Very cool, looking forward to learning this effect.
I agree with Scott….We need a video!!
That is sooo cool!
Rob, I play with these quite a bit and even after the tone mapping, add some of my own Photoshopping to them, so the answer isnt clear cut. A little extra love goes into each and its different for every picture.
Thanks for the reply. I see the exif is no longer in place on the images. What is the exp bracketing you use? -2 0 +2
It generally works out to be about that, but I tend to expose for details in the + and- images, not so much f stop differences.
That looks sweet…almost like CG!