Mastering High Dynamic Range Photography

High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging is the latest challenge to face anyone whos serious about the future of digital photography. But as with so many other aspects of the digital revolution, with the challenge comes an exciting opportunity to extend your skills and repertoire into areas you never before thought possible. The human eye is vastly superior to any camera sensor. It is capable of perceiving a wide range of different luminance levels simultaneously without distortion. HDR photography offers a set of techniques that allows you to capture the full range of tones in a scene, with the aim of replicating human perception more accurately. Mastering High Dynamic Range Photography explains how to shoot specifically for HDR and discusses, in detail, the software available to combine multiple exposures into a single HDR image. Perhaps most importantly, HDR is revealed as a technology not of soulless automation, butprecisely because it breaks with familiar photographic conventionsone that requires judgement and artistry on the part of the photographer.