Mastering HDR Photography: Combining Technology and Artistry to Create High Dynamic Range Images
by: Michael Freeman
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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.
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- 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 ... Read More
Rating: 
- 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.
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- 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 ... Read More
Rating: 
- Compares poorly to other books on the subject, bad print quality
Having already Christian Bloch's and Ferrell McCollough's texts on HDR imaging, I was intrigued by the accolades given to Michael Freeman as a writer by some of the readers here, and I got this book as well.
In fact, this book does not stack up to the both other works on the subject. Author often meanders into philosophical issues of composition, like the "Gestalt theory", instead of analyzing the issues of high dynamic range.
Bad are the example images, in many cases almost ... Read More
Rating: - Sad what could have been
It's sad that Michael Freeman's Mastering HDR Photography wasn't handed over to a publisher that cared more about the reader.Freeman manages to pack a lot of information into the text, but the type--it's an ultra light sans serif type that my middle aged eyes had trouble reading in all lights--kept me from reading all the material.There are reasons why there are so many fonts available; the publisher should give them some thought.I wrote to the publisher, but received no answer.That tells me they ... Read More
- 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 ... Read More
- 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.
- Broad and BuggyI 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 ... Read More
- Compares poorly to other books on the subject, bad print qualityHaving already Christian Bloch's and Ferrell McCollough's texts on HDR imaging, I was intrigued by the accolades given to Michael Freeman as a writer by some of the readers here, and I got this book as well.
In fact, this book does not stack up to the both other works on the subject. Author often meanders into philosophical issues of composition, like the "Gestalt theory", instead of analyzing the issues of high dynamic range.
Bad are the example images, in many cases almost ... Read More
- Sad what could have beenIt's sad that Michael Freeman's Mastering HDR Photography wasn't handed over to a publisher that cared more about the reader.Freeman manages to pack a lot of information into the text, but the type--it's an ultra light sans serif type that my middle aged eyes had trouble reading in all lights--kept me from reading all the material.There are reasons why there are so many fonts available; the publisher should give them some thought.I wrote to the publisher, but received no answer.That tells me they ... Read More
