March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
9h 8m
English
Now, once we know how it's possible to get more pictures, we can take multiple photos that have very little or no overlapping dynamic range. Let's have a look at the most popular algorithm for HDR, first published by Paul E Debevec and Jitendra Malik in 2008.
It turns out that if you want to have good results, you have to have pictures that are overlapping, to make sure you have good accuracy and since there is noise in the photos. It's usually common to have 1, 2, or at most 3 stops difference from picture to picture. If we were to shoot five 8-bit photos with a difference of 3 stops, we would cover the human eye's one million to one sensitivity ratio:
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