Mastering HDR Photography: Combining Technology and Artistry to Create High Dynamic Range Images

by: Michael Freeman
Mastering HDR Photography: Combining Technology and Artistry to Create High Dynamic Range Images
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High dynamic range imaging, or HDR, is the latest challenge for those who are serious about digital photography. But with that challenge comes an opportunity to expand skills and repertoire into exciting new areas. HDR, originally developed for use with computer-generated images, captures the full range of tones in a scene, reproducing human perception down to the finest detail without lens flare, burnout, or underexposure. Mastering High Dynamic Range Photography explains exactly how to shoot specifically for HDR, and how to use the new software that lets the photographer combine several images into one glowingly accurate final photo. Step-by-steps and sample photographs reveal how to apply these techniques to many different genres, producing results that are part photograph, part work of art.


Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Exactly what the tittle says.
Very good reference for all you need to understand, shoot and tone map HDR images.
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Possibly a great reference, ruined by poor writing and editing
Although this book had great potential to be a good reference on the advanced topic of high dynamic range photography, I found the overly verbose writing and philosophical meandering to totally distract me from the useful content in the book.

There are many grammatical and typographical errors as well as errors referring to the sample photographs.On top of that, the sample photos are extremely small and not of great quality.

I recommend that if you are interested in buying ... Read More
Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - A waste of my money!
More like a textbook for grad students than a lesson in mastering this technique. If you are looking for an understandable explanation of this technique, this is not the book for you. I tried several times to get through this book and I just kept putting it down. I am HIGHLY interested in this subject, but this book does nothing to help me understand it, it only serves to make me less interested. I also bought The HDRI Handbook and it is much easier to understand and more user-friendly. Most of what I ... Read More
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent HDR Book.
Detailed instructions.Covers multiple software packages.List of settings for each piece of software.Tells how to set-up and get proper composition for good HDR images.This is important.You're going to like this book.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Broad and Buggy
I liked this book for the most part. It covers HDR software fairly well, especially Photomatix, which is an industry leader. The author includes a substantive discussion of dynamic range in terms of seeing, capture and printing, and you do get a good introduction to the vocabulary.

I only gave 3 stars however. There are a number of issues. 1) Some of the images are mis-captioned; usually you can figure out which is which, but better proofing would have helped. 2) Many of the images are simply ... Read More
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