HDR Photography

HDR photography means high dynamic range and its when you take not only take one picture but you take a bunch of pictures in the same exact angle and spot at different exposures then put it together, this is a HDR photo. The one thing I like about HDR is that it puts a whole twist on a photo, adding more depth giving it a more interesting look to the audience. Something I dislike about is that sometimes its hard too take the HDR with any movement because when you put it together in photoshop it might come out with some ghosts. Ghosting is when the image is all blurry. It can sometimes make a cool effect but can also make it hard to see whats going on.

 Take a camera were you can adjust the exposure from -3 to 3 on the settings. Then choose an area to take your photo without changing the area then take a picture in each number on the exposure. This should add to 7 photos in all that look the same but are from super dark to super light.
When you are finished with the photos you can import it onto your computer that has Photoshop. Once they are imported go on Photoshop> File> Automate> Merge HDR> Browse> Select the photos and let Photoshop do its job and putting together all of the photos and transforming it into a HDR photo.
Now you can use your creativity to edit your High Dynamic Range photo and turn it into something that you prefer better. You can deselect ghosting or keep it but only if you want. Their is also other settings were you can change the vibrancy, saturation, shadows, etc.
After you are finished fixing up your HDR and turning it into something you like you can press done on the bottom right. If you like how it turned our File>Save As>and save it to your documents.

You may wonder isn't their an automatic function that phones and some cameras can do? Well actually their is, this is a more instant, fast way. Its a function that some cameras and phones have. Cameras have a more high quality look to it.For our home work we had to sign out a camera take 7 pictures of a person in the rule of thirds at different exposures, put them together in photoshop, try to edit them by playing around with the exposure, vibrance, saturation, and make it look surrealistic. Then you had to take 7 more photos of a landscape with something that is in the photo within the rule of thirds at different exposures.