HDR Photography

Our GT teacher is now starting to teach us HDR photography which is basically a camera function to blend in multiple pictures and make one picture. The different pictures are supposed to have varying lighting so that the HDR can blend in the darkness and the brightness to make a picture with equal amounts of each attribute. With Photoshop and some other programs you could further customize that picture to your liking. Our teacher made our assignment so that we couldn't do it automatically with that function in the camera so we had to do it manually! Its really easy actually and I like almost everything about it. If you were to use HDR automatically it might spit out a picture you might not like and to be honest I really do like it.

Kaz Espina, Thanks For Your Help!

So in the edge of your camera on your I-phone there is a HDR button right? Doing it manually on Photoshop is a bit different from that. So you have to take 7 photos of varying exposure plus it has to be about the same subject with little to no changes in every picture and select them all by clicking file,automate and merge with HDR Pro. You click browse and pick whatever pictures you want to have the HDR treatment. After a while it's gonna be done and if you want to customize there are some customization options on the side and if you are done click OK.

Usually when I do an HDR photo I want to make sure that you can see everything and it's enough to trick your eyes and make you think you're staring at the real thing. I make sure that the shadows are lighten enough so that you can see what's hiding in there but not so much so that the sun isn't painful to look at. I also make the other colors pop out and really stand out. So the ideal HDR photo for me is something vibrant and something with little to no shadows. But of course since I haven't quite mastered it yet it sometimes comes out like a pastel nightmare.