My first attempt at HDR
Alright, this is my first attempt at HDR, so I may still not be very good at it. For the uninitiated, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, which basically translates to an image with a high dynamic range of contrast and detail. Alright, it's just a fancy name for photo combined together using at least three different exposures of the same scene. Still confused? See the image below and you should understand better.
The above image was made possible by combining three different exposures of the same photo to capture as much detail and contrast. As you can see in the following photos, each exposure level carries different details and loses others, by combining the three photos together, we are able to capture the best detail in all three different exposures.
The over exposed shot reveals detail in the buildings
The normal exposed shot has some good details in the sky and sea
The under exposed shot is used to add contrast to the overall result
Of course for my case I cheated and simply adjusted the exposure of the image in Camera Raw. I then added all three photos into one image with the over exposed image on the top layer, normal exposed image on the middle layer and under exposed image on the bottom layer.
The combination was then done by applying layer masks to the over exposed and normal exposed layer and then painting out (masking out) the unwanted parts and revealing the best detail for each layer.
As this is only a first attempt I will not go into detailed step by step of producing an HDR image, I will come up with a proper HDR tutorial when I am better at it, so be sure to check back for it :D
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