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HDR - High Dynamic Range / Re: Is there a primer for HDR from 5D3? How to bracket shots? PP?
« on: December 04, 2012, 12:37:37 PM »
If you want my true answer I would say RTFM! It is explained in detail which possibilities you have for HDR and how to set them. Really only takes less then 5 minutes to find it using the index. That's what manuals are for!
But to help you a bit:
1) You can set the picture style to HDR, in which case your camera will merge the pictures for you and create a jpg
2) You can use standard bracket shots. In any mode press the Q button on the right of your screen to bring up the quick settings menu of your camera (must not be in auto mode). Use the small dial or joystick to navigate to the EV settings slider. Now turn the big dial on the back of your camera e voila! Now you have 3 indicators instead of one! If you turn the dial more they more further apart. This way you can set the exposure values for the 3 shots your camera is going to take. If you press your shutter button now, your camera should take the 3 pictures automatically. This way it will just save 3 separate images. One under exposed, one normal and one over exposed. You can use these with photomatrix.
Just read the manual and experiment. Easy to find, easy to do. Good luck!
But to help you a bit:
1) You can set the picture style to HDR, in which case your camera will merge the pictures for you and create a jpg
2) You can use standard bracket shots. In any mode press the Q button on the right of your screen to bring up the quick settings menu of your camera (must not be in auto mode). Use the small dial or joystick to navigate to the EV settings slider. Now turn the big dial on the back of your camera e voila! Now you have 3 indicators instead of one! If you turn the dial more they more further apart. This way you can set the exposure values for the 3 shots your camera is going to take. If you press your shutter button now, your camera should take the 3 pictures automatically. This way it will just save 3 separate images. One under exposed, one normal and one over exposed. You can use these with photomatrix.
Just read the manual and experiment. Easy to find, easy to do. Good luck!
Hi folks,
I would like to pay with HDR, but not sure where to start.
For instance, how do you set the camera to do this? I found how to set it to shoot HDR, it brackets 3 images and spits out a jpg. Is there a way to do this without it spitting out the jpg it puts together?
How do ya'll set the camera to take your HDR series of images? Any links to a tutorial on this for the Canon 5D3?
Also, for PP....do most of ya'll use Photomatix? Anyone use the open source Luminance (http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/) program I've found.
Or, so most of you do it with Photoshop or GIMP? I'd seen one youtube video that seemed to get the most out of an HDR shot...using Photoshop where they could use masks to paint in/out the best parts of each images exposure with layers.
I don't know how to use layers much yet, but sure did look interesting. Anyone know of any good links to tutorials on trying this?
Anyway, just wanting to find solid info on how most of you shoot your bracketed exposures...and your workflows for processing using plugins or real image manipulator applications....
Thanks in advance,
cayenne
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