In this blogpost and in the video I will show you how I shoot and edit my handheld hyperlapses. The last couple of weeks I have been experimenting on how to make a handheld hyperlapse videos. I have learned a lot and I will point out my biggest mistakes, so you will NOT have to make the same mistakes again.
In september 2016 we were visiting the southern part of England (UK). I shot a sequence of several bracketed exposure photographs on my tripod, capturing the interior of the roman baths and the cathedral in the background. This HDR photograph is a picture created out of five bracketed shots, post-processed with Photomatix and Photoshop. The Roman […]
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.
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.
Making multiple pictures with different exposure levels is called exposure bracketing. Exposure Bracketing can be done manually and automatic depending on the possibilities of your camera. Almost all modern digital cameras have a feature called Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB).
Today I was going through my photographs of 2014 and I stumbled upon a series of HDR photographs I took during our city trip to Budapest in March 2014. I remember it took about one hour and a half to take all the pictures during golden hour and blue hour. Hungary’s Parliament Building is situated at […]
If you want to learn exactly how I turned this uninteresting picture into a dramatic eye-catching photograph, keep following this blog and our social media channels, because soon we will make a short tutorial on making improvements in Lightroom and finishing up in Photoshop. So once more, if you don’t need the photographs in jpeg right away, always shoot in RAW format.
In our blog we will regularly post photography tips and tricks that will help you improve the quality of your photographs. Today we start with tip #1. One of the most important rules that will help improve your photographs is very simple yet very often overlooked by many photographers : “shoot at the right time of day”.
This is my first post on the photoblog of Highdynamicranger.com, and there will be many more to follow. This is a shot of City Hall with tower bridge on the back. Shot on a tripod and post-proccesing done with Photomatix, Lightroom and Photoshop. Last year in June, we were visiting London and I definitely wanted […]
