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Here is an exciting software package to create interesting effects with your photographs. HDR Soft (http://www.hdrsoft.com/) offers a software package called Photomatix, which combines a series of photographs into a single image while retaining the qualities of the individual photographs. Although the photographs appear surreal, they are actually not enhanced “lies” where improperly exposed photographs are enhanced through filters. Each photograph processed through Photomatix are unenhanced. The magic happens in layers within a system called High Dynamic Range, or HDR for short. Here is how it works in a nutshell.

The photograph depicted here was taken on Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana and was processed through tone mapping using HDR Soft Photomatix Pro. Read the rest of this entry »

High Dynamic Range photography is something has been looming on the digital photography seen for a little while, and is gaining in popularity. The images are surreal looking, and at the same time sharply detailed and strangely lit. Just try typing HDR Photography into google and see what I mean.

But is this all just a photoshop trick? Actually no, there’s more going on than just your average retouching wizardry. HDR photography is actually an ingenious answer to a problem that has vexed many a student, as well as masters, in the field. The problem is this; when shooting a photo with both a brightly lit and shadowed object, only one or the other can be exposed for correctly. This means you either get the really bright sky to look right, or the shadowed person in front of the sky. Can’t have both because of the physical limitations of how a camera works. But with HDR photographic techniques, you suddenly can get both. Read the rest of this entry »