Rusty Steps an HDR Image

I’ve been reading After Capture magazine since the folks at Rangerfinder Magazine starting publishing it. It’s a good magazine with a lot of cool images and geez whiz advice on image manipulation. One of the things that I was really taken with were the High Dynamic Range Images. The basic idea is that you find a subject, anything you like really, and them make a series of bracketed exposures using a tripod. Go from slightly over exposed to slight under exposed. Then you can use the Merge to HDR feature in Photoshop or use one of the stand alone HDR…

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High Dynamic Range Images

In the good old days of film photography, you had to spin a lot of dials, adjust a lot settings, make sure you had the right speed film for the subject, and so on and so forth. A nice modern digital camera set to Auto will do all the work for you and capture near perfect images every time. But just using a digital camera to take pictures is missing a great deal of the fun. Dropping those images into Photoshop and applying a filter or two is much more interesting. One of my favorite magazines is called After Capture,…

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