HDR Imaging with Lightroom 3

High Dynamic Range Imag­ing (HDR) is a ” set of tech­niques that allow a greater dynamic range of lumi­nances between the light­est and dark­est areas of an image than stan­dard dig­i­tal imag­ing tech­niques or pho­to­graphic meth­ods” (Wikipedia).

The below exer­cise is a sim­ple test, using only two images with dif­fer­ent exposures.

Balux Gly­fada 1

The image has been taken inside a room expos­ing it to fea­ture the col­ors of the inte­rior. As you can see, the con­se­quence of prop­erly expos­ing the inte­rior leads to over exposed areas, namely on the table and then all over the back­ground where we basi­cally see only white.

Balux Gly­fada 2

The inte­rior is under­ex­posed, how­ever the back­ground or the exte­rior area shows col­ors and details as the meter­ing is set to ren­der a clear image in the background.

Gly­fada Balux HDR

After the merger we end up with a nice com­pro­mise which can be adjusted in post edit­ing. Light­room did a good job on the back­ground as wel as on the table where we get now some of the blueish shine as a reflec­tion from the exter­nal tones.

Balux Gly­fada edited

For the pur­pose of this test I have just dark­ened the tonal range of the high­lights a bit to see a real con­trast to the pre­vi­ous image.

HDR imag­ing has become an easy task with Light­room 3, even for begin­ners. The dif­fer­ence between the first and the last photo is sim­ply smash­ing. The abil­ity to edit HDR in Light­room with just a few mouse-clicks will help many ama­teurs to get a more pro­fes­sional look to pic­tures fea­tur­ing interiors.

Of course it’s also a great fea­ture for night pho­tog­ra­phy or any­where where improved dynamic range can­not be reached with just one shot.

This and more we will demon­strate live and exer­cise with the par­tic­i­pants at this week’s Ycad­emy calls as an add on to the Ycad­emy Sem­i­nar which took place dur­ing the past week-end.

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1. Light­room 3 Quick Slideshow
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Tags: Balux Glyfada, HDR Imaging, HDR in Lightroom 3, Ycademy Online Seminar, Yorgo Nestoridis

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