My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert
Village. Today, I'm going to give you an overview and introduction to HDR or high dynamic range
photography. This is kind of a really gritty, kind of a grim, almost apocalyptic-looking
image. It also looks very unnatural.
It looks highly processed, which is one of the neat
things you can do with HDR photography. You don't have to make them look synthetic or
processed like this though. Let me show you some other examples I have, like this one.
Clearly that one does not look heavily processed. This one doesn't either.
This is just a building
that I shot here downtown. There are some trees. That's actually an HDR picture, but
it still retains that level of naturalness. It's just a matter of how you want to approach
the project.
It's the same with this bridge, same with these tree moss that were growing.
Here's a theater. These I kept that natural look about them. Now, if you want to see one
that has another strange unnatural look to it, it's this one. It almost looks like a
painting.
It looks very synthetic, very fake. If you see it full sized, you can also see
some other really weird line details to it, and then you contrast that with this, which
looks super realistic. You can really utilize HDR photography to get some really interesting
effects as long as you play with it. Sometimes the effect you're going for will be the exact
opposite of what you end up with, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.I'm a big fan of it.
I'm constantly playing with it.
I'm constantly learning new things about it. I have found
that my best images tend to come out night. I highly recommend if you're going to do this,
either really like not overcast days, but days with lots of clouds and like individual
cloud detail or lots of like really bright days with clouds or at night if you can take
like nighttime scenery, you can get some really interesting effects out of that. Like this
was taken in the middle of the day, and you can look at the detail in the clouds here
and it's pretty amazing looking as opposed to this one, which was taken on a fairly overcast
day.
There's not a whole lot of cloud detail. This one right here was taken on a regular
day too, and you can see all the detail in this one. It's just a matter of working with
your photos, and you can get some really amazing results. You can get some results that will
surprise yourself, and I can't recommend it enough.
Hopefully this has been a helpful
intro on how to shoot HDRs and work with them, and I look forward to you guys checking out
my videos on Expert Village. Thanks a lot!.
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