Techniques to prevent camera shake doing Manual Exposure Bracketing

Although there exists a technique for shooting handheld HDR, it is in most cases very difficult to get high quality professional HDR results without the camera mounted on a tripod. We will discuss some techniques I apply to minimize the risk of camera movement.

Measuring the complete dynamic range with spot metering

Let’s go through the different steps I take to make sure to capture the whole 100% of the dynamic range and to measure the dynamic range of the scene with spot metering. Next I will show how I decide what exposures to shoot to cover this complete range of the scene.