Hdr

I am looking to have a go at some HDR photography.. Can anyone tell me the software required or point me in the dirction of a good Book. of "how to"

Photomatix.

Books? why?

5-13 shots, from complete blackness to complete whitness. Don't change the aperture, set focus to MF. Feed them into photomatix - play with the sliders. Job done.

Bret

If you just want to try HDR, download Picturenaut. It's freeware, free to download and use. Or try FDRTools .

Try it first with say 5 images, each 1 exposure stop apart from well underexposed to well overexposed. If you haven't already got 5 separately exposed images just create 5 images from your favourite raw converter, adjusting the exposure by 1 stop between saving them.

HDR takes patience, skill, and understanding. Nobody gets it right first time and most overdo the enhancements making the resulting image look surreal.

As in most things in life, practice makes perfect, or near enough.

Theres also Luminance HDR (formerly Qtpfsgui).

If you have Photoshop CS4/5 - there are some HDR features in there, but the tonemapping options are, imho, not quite up to par with dedicated HDR software, personally, Luminance HDR and Photomatix give good results.

I have a good number of HDR photos taken with (mostly) Pentax cameras over the years on flickr - link

Brian.

Thanks guys...Great info..At least now I have a starting point..

A bit late answering, but I like Dynamic Photo HDR, which can be found at:
http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html

This program allows quite 'extreme' contrast to be created (rather overblown HDR - which I quite like if I'm creating art rather than photography), but can also produce quite subtle HDRs. It's also very simple to use.

So do I
Thanks for the link El Dingo,
A cracking program.

Davex.

Here's some more software links;

Oloneo - link
Windows only

Picturenaut 3 - link
Free, but donations welcome.
Windows only

FDR Tools - link
Free version available. Extended features: €39, €59
Windows + Mac

AutoHDR - link
Free, but donations welcome
Windows only. Converts a single image. Can be very slow.

easyHDR Pro - link
Trial version available. Full product €35.
Windows only

Tutorials are here - link

And here - link

Hope some of these help.

There's always the K-7 or the K-5

I use FDRTools and find it works very well, even on 9 shots.

To add to CoDa's post above, another good tutorial here

If you're still after a book, a good starter is "Practical HDR" by David Nightingale...lots of examples and he lists all the Photomatix settings with each one!