Getting HDR using one shot?

9 years 5 months ago #409585 by Tim Reeder
How does getting HDR with one shot and post processing compare to bracketed shots combined?  


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9 years 5 months ago - 9 years 5 months ago #409596 by hghlndr6
Depending on how wide the dynamic range is, it might not even be possible to get one shot in which you could bring out sufficient detail from both highlights and shadows in processing.  With highlights that are truly blown, forget it; there's no detail there.  With real deep shadows, if you try to open them up too much, you're going to get a whole lot of noise.  But with combined shots, you can always do it if you have one shot exposed perfectly for each end of the range, and maybe one or more in the middle.
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9 years 5 months ago #409630 by effron
You can do quite a lot with Adobe Camera Raw and a well exposed raw file, but there is NO comparison to a bracketed group of images and what can be done with them.....

Why so serious?
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9 years 5 months ago #409661 by Damon

effron wrote: You can do quite a lot with Adobe Camera Raw and a well exposed raw file, but there is NO comparison to a bracketed group of images and what can be done with them.....



I was going to say the same thing.  :agree:


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9 years 5 months ago #409691 by Joves
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With all of the above. One way is the right way, and the other way is not. If I am going to do HDR then it is expose for the dark, then the middle, and the highlights. I have shot as many as 10 shots to pick the ones I want to use. I know that may seem excessive, but it is only bits&bytes on a card.


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9 years 5 months ago #409700 by Conner
Don't you lose out on dynamic range with a single image? 


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9 years 5 months ago - 9 years 5 months ago #409731 by Stealthy Ninja
Bracketed HDR is often the type that looks terrible when people push it too far.  So in theory it can give you more dynamic range, but it can also look really bad when done wrong.

Conner wrote: Don't you lose out on dynamic range with a single image? 


Depends if the scene can be captured nicely within your camera's RAW.  Throwing more shots at a scene that RAW can capture anyway is a waste of time.
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9 years 5 months ago #409809 by Tim Entin
Speaking of HDR, I downloaded Photomatix software a couple weeks ago.  I have not used it yet.  I was told this was better than using HDR processing that is in Photoshop.  Any comments on this?


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9 years 4 months ago #413956 by Jerrid

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Bracketed HDR is often the type that looks terrible when people push it too far.  So in theory it can give you more dynamic range, but it can also look really bad when done wrong.

Conner wrote: Don't you lose out on dynamic range with a single image? 


Depends if the scene can be captured nicely within your camera's RAW.  Throwing more shots at a scene that RAW can capture anyway is a waste of time.



:agree:


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