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Mastering HDR Photography: Combining Technology and Artistry to Create High Dynamic Range Images

Mastering HDR Photography: Combining Technology and Artistry to Create High Dynamic Range Images

High dynamic range imaging, or HDR, is the latest challenge for those who are serious about digital photography. But with that challenge comes an opportunity to expand skills and repertoire into exciting new areas. HDR, originally developed for use with computer-generated images, captures the full range of tones in a scene, reproducing human perception down to the finest detail without lens flare, burnout, or underexposure. Mastering High Dynamic Range Photography explains exactly how to shoot specifically for HDR, and how to use the new software that lets the photographer combine several images into one glowingly accurate final photo. Step-by-steps and sample photographs reveal how to apply these techniques to many different genres, producing results that are part photograph, part work of art.

Customer Review: Sad what could have been
It’s sad that Michael Freeman’s Mastering HDR Photography wasn’t handed over to a publisher that cared more about the reader. Freeman manages to pack a lot of information into the text, but the type–it’s an ultra light sans serif type that my middle aged eyes had trouble reading in all lights–kept me from reading all the material. There are reasons why there are so many fonts available; the publisher should give them some thought. I wrote to the publisher, but received no answer. That tells me they don’t value their readers’ input.

I gave up on the Freeman text and went back to Amazon for McCollough’s Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Digital Photography and am completely satisfied. McCollough offers a different approach to HDR than I had used, and it makes complete sense. Even nicer, I can read his text.
Customer Review: Great Resource
Excellent reference for HDR photography. I use Photomatix but was unsure if I was using it’s functions correctly. This book is a very good instructional text not only on Photomatix but other software out there as well. If you do HDR you NEED this book.


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