Monday, January 18, 2010

Single Exposure HDR

Rainbow Sculpture
I enjoy HDR photography which can produce some really vibrant and interesting results.  Typically, HDR images are made by combining and tonemapping multiple exposures into a single image, taking advantage of the wide dynamic range provided by combining multiple exposures of the same scene.  I recently discovered that Photomatix Pro, the HDR/Tonemapping software of choice, does a great job even with a single RAW image. This is because an image in RAW format still has a higher dynamic range than typical monitors/printers (although not as high as multiple combined exposures) which good HDR/tonemapping software can take advantage of.

See some of my HDR photos on flickr.

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