Comments on: High Dynamic Range Photography Techniques

By: Sean Bagshaw

Sean Bagshaw — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:10:45 +0000

Thanks for the comment Steve. In addition to moving objects I also find that using layer masking to blend exposures also gives more local adjustment control and has fewer issues with color shifts, noise and haloing. If you are interested I have some other articles on exposure blending on the Photo Cascadia blog (www.photocascadia.com) and I have a video tutorial that teaches some of my techniques available on my website. While it would be hard to completely automate the layer mask blending process, it is possible to build Photoshop actions that are very helpful. Tony Kuyper offers a complete set of actions for various masking techniques. And I agree that eventually cameras will be able to handle a lot of the challenges of high dynamic range light. Cheers!

By: Steve Nassar

Steve Nassar — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:51:50 +0000

Thank you Sean, Your article is very informative and logical.
I use Photoshop, camera raw and few HDR software like Photomatix and HDR EFEX Pro. I agree with you that manual blending some times produces the best blending, especially when it comes to moving or shaky objects in the scene.
You touched down on blending using Masks and brushing. Wonder if there are better ways (and semi automated) of masking , layer blending and channels.

To think out the box like you do. I always thought “may be it is a matter of time when a camera manufacture figures how to do it”, HDR sequential shooting is redundant and could be avoided if there was way in the camera to construct all exposures needed from the longest exposure using “shift registers ” of the camera sensor at different intervals.
Thank You,
Steve

By: Rosalie More

Rosalie More — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:38:13 +0000

I found your article about HDR and hand-blending multiple images fascinating. I’m happy to see that you are from the Rogue Valley, as am I. If you have a newsletter, I’d love to receive it. Also, if you schedule any workshops in photography, please let me know.

Thank you.

Rosalie