Posted on May 25 2009
Our lodges are located in four pretty stunning locations, which provides us and our guests with great opportunities for taking pictures.
If you like taking wide-angle pictures outdoors, and you don’t mind tinkering a bit, HDR photography is a pretty neat way to get some beautiful exposures and really unique look.
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It’s a technique in which multiple images are combined using software that takes the best-exposed parts of each image to create a single image with very even exposure throughout. HDR photography elimates some of the problems that you face when shooting in bright conditions outdoors – for example, getting a good exposure of the sky and white clouds, while still getting rich detail in the foreground.
The technique that we use is fairly straightforward –
- Set the camera on a tripod.
- Use bracketing and multiple frames on the timer to take one image as metered, one at +2 EV and one at -2EV.
- Use Photomatix to combine the images into a single HDR image.
HDR adds some steps to the process, but with a little bit of time the results can be worth it.