Standing on the median of Wellington Street, I shot this image with my D300 on a Tripod. Sometimes the difference in handheld HDR images and stable HDR images isn’t that big of a difference. Only sometimes. However, I was totally amazed, a long time ago now, when I first shot HDR using my Tripod. The sharpness and reduction in noise is awesome. There is something to be said for the dreamy, partly blurred HDR images that are handheld though. I really like the change here at Citi Plaza and believe it’s a great upgrade. I am reposting this photo, as the orginal post was lost due to an internal server problem that could not be fixed apparently. Over time, I plan to have all of these photos up from the past months, and they will be included in the year end book on HDR Photography.
The problem we see with HDR images right now is that a lot of them have bad halos around building or edges, especially when it comes to a sky. There are a lot of different ways that you can combat halos though. Photos provide challenges that are actually quite intriguing to solve. In this HDR Photo of our “newish” Citi Plaza, all I needed to do was increase the Micro Smoothing and decrease the strength a little bit. I used 6 TIF images to create the HDR file and then Tone mapped (that’s where you deal with the micro smoothing and strength I just mentioned). I’ll provide a really awesome and simple tip tomorrow for combating HDR Halos. It’s so simple, hopefully you know it but it’s the best thing I discovered yet! Hopefully this HDR Photoblog I’m creating here is a place for photographers to discover little quick tips on the processing involved in high dynamic range photography. If you’re coming along and would like a more in depth HDR Tutorial, check out my main website.
