Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dealing with Sunlight White Quaking Aspen Bark Utilizing HDR

In the photograph, I dealt with the sunlight on the white bark of Quaking Aspens using high dynamic range (HDR) imaging.  In this early morning image, seven exposures were captured from -3 to +3 EV, developed in NX2, converted to Jpegs and then imported into Photomatrix Pro.  I developed this image starting with the "natural" preset in PPro to avoid the grunge look.  This scene has close to the 4-5 EV dynamic range.  I generally take a full set of images and then select the set of images where the highlights at the lowest exposure are clearly not blown and the shadows at the other end are not totally black.  I process all the images of the set identically.

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