Capturing an HDR Image
Lesson 7 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Capturing an HDR Image
Lesson 7 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
7. Capturing an HDR Image
Lessons
Introduction
01:02 2Finding the Light
01:12 3Crafting Composition
00:49 4Histogram and Spot Metering
01:50 5ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
02:49 6Taking the Shot
02:12 7Capturing an HDR Image
02:23 8Shooting in Manual Mode Recap
01:18Introduction to Lightroom:
00:51 10Lightroom: Importing Albums and Organization
01:53 11Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking Images
01:11 12Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:03 13Lightroom: Color Profiles
01:17 14Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
01:47 15Lightroom: Gradients
01:21 16Lightroom: Brush Tool
00:56 17Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
01:07 18Lightroom: Contrast, Exposure and Saturation
01:00 19Lightroom: Healing Brush to Remove Objects
03:39 20Lightroom: Export and Share
00:46 21Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
03:32 22Photoshop: Stamp Tool
01:11 23Photoshop: Dodge and Burn
02:07 24Photoshop: Basic Adjustments
01:02 25Photoshop: Adding Clouds
01:54 26Photoshop: Quick Selection Tool
02:36 27Photoshop: Sharing your Images
00:34Lesson Info
Capturing an HDR Image
Since I have the luxury of time, I'm on a tripod and I'm shooting a beautiful landscape. I wanna make sure that I have the best possible data, and so I'm gonna go and take an HDR photograph. HDR stands for high dynamic range. You've probably heard of it. It's very easy to do. Most cameras actually have an HDR mode, even your phone has an HDR mode. However, your camera is going to take a very, very beautiful set of three or more images, and they're gonna bracket. You're going to take one that's underexposed, one that's correctly exposed and one that's overexposed. So, the other overexposed image is going to give you better detail in the shadows. And the underexposed image is gonna give you better information in the highlights or the sky. So I'm gonna go into my camera's HDR mode. So I just simply click here. I'm just gonna go over to the HDR option, and I can choose different levels of HDR. I can choose an auto, or I can tell it to overexpose and underexpose by one stop or two stops or ...
three stops. And it always depends on what the lighting conditions are. So in my case, I'm just gonna tell it to go two stops above, two stops below. That's gonna give me plenty of information. And I'm gonna stay right where I was exposed before, and now it's going to shoot three shots in rapid succession. One's underexposed, one's normal, one's overexposed. Let's do that now. Done. So, my HDR has been taken. It's actually gonna compile it into a JPEG on here so I can see what it looks like, but we're gonna actually do the real composite inside of lightroom later, 'cause the computer will do a much better job than the camera will. So, with a beautiful regular image and one HDR, I have completely captured this image, and I'm absolutely certain that I have great focus, I have great composition, I have great exposure inside of my images that I've captured on the camera, so now I get to go in and choose the absolute best version of that when I'm back in lightroom, and then we'll make the magic really happen once we start doing post-production on this image.
Ratings and Reviews
James Kitt
I wish more people would present this way! Each step from beginning to end demonstrated in short, concise and useful actions. Every tool and technique is something that I either use, (now better) or will start using because I now understand how to use it efficiently. I highly recommend this course!
Fauzan Pojam
Finally, a video tutorial that taught me what I've known on basic level and truly explore how to use it properly and what everything means. I've been waiting for something like this for awhile now. Greatly improves my technique now so thank you for this!
Angie Purcell
Great class wi with tons of helpful hints for both Lightroom and Photoshop.
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