Hand-HDR
To render this image of a strongly backlit window and the dark interior of a reconstructed historic apothecary at Laws Train Museum near Bishop, California, I shot an extensive bracketed sequence (the bracketed files are shown on page 119 in Adobe Bridge). I processed the sequence by hand, using elements from each of the exposures.
22mm, eight exposures at shutter speeds ranging from 1.6 seconds to 1/640 of a second, each exposure shot at f/8 and ISO 200, tripod mounted; exposures combined in Photoshop.
The things that hurt, instruct.
—Benjamin Franklin
If one RAW exposure is good, then many exposures are indeed better. Look at it this ...
Get The Way of the Digital Photographer: Walking the Photoshop post-production path to more creative photography now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
