5Diii in camera HDR actually comes in useful...

[LewisShermer]

So I shot a wedding a few weeks ago where the dress had these netting flourishes... I did my usual thing of hang the dress up somewhere with a far amount of natural light and press the button. Only the way I was doing it was burning out those netted flourishes. I just thought I'd do a few different exposures and put them together in photoshop. THEN I REMEMBERED THE IN CAMERA HDR! It's not the most accurate or the best way to do things, obviously (and it cuts about 5mm off the edges of your pic), but I thought I'd give it a try and the bloody thing worked.

So yeah, anyone else had experiences where "novelty" in camera settings have actually come in useful?

This is pretty much straight from the camera (via lightroom as I shoot RAW)

I have since done a little photoshopping and taken out that bed that was inconveniently placed in the bedroom I was shooting in, bloody inconsiderate people. the finished photoshopped image is on my site if anyone is actually interested (which I doubt anyone is that bored) in seeing it?

 

[Random Orbits]

Nice! I would not have thought about using HDR in that situation. I'm assuming this is hand-held, and that it took the camera about 0.5 sec to take the 3 pics. How much shake/variation can be in images before the HDR finished image starts showing artifacts?

 

[Rienzphotoz]

So I shot a wedding a few weeks ago where the dress had these netting flourishes... I did my usual thing of hang the dress up somewhere with a far amount of natural light and press the button. Only the way I was doing it was burning out those netted flourishes. I just thought I'd do a few different exposures and put them together in photoshop. THEN I REMEMBERED THE IN CAMERA HDR! It's not the most accurate or the best way to do things, obviously (and it cuts about 5mm off the edges of your pic), but I thought I'd give it a try and the bloody thing worked.

So yeah, anyone else had experiences where "novelty" in camera settings have actually come in useful?

This is pretty much straight from the camera (via lightroom as I shoot RAW)

I have since done a little photoshopping and taken out that bed that was inconveniently placed in the bedroom I was shooting in, bloody inconsiderate people. the finished photoshopped image is on my site if anyone is actually interested (which I doubt anyone is that bored) in seeing it?

Well done ... I use a lot of in camera HDR with my 5D MK III and they almost always turn out really nice

 

[LewisShermer]

Nice! I would not have thought about using HDR in that situation. I'm assuming this is hand-held, and that it took the camera about 0.5 sec to take the 3 pics. How much shake/variation can be in images before the HDR finished image starts showing artifacts?

it was actually on a tripod. the original exposure was around 30/sec 100iso f2.2 maybe... it took 3 exposures, one at half that time and the other at double. i've not tried it handheld but I doubt it'd work.

when i had the 60D I quite enjoyed the vintage/grain/effects it did in camera. i never gave them to clients though

 

[Don Haines]

It turned out quite well. In Camera HDR is one of the "novelty features" that I am sure I will enjoy when I eventually replace my 60D... I have it on my p/s camera and like it.

 

[Pi]

It turned out quite well. In Camera HDR is one of the "novelty features" that I am sure I will enjoy when I eventually replace my 60D... I have it on my p/s camera and like it.

You can do it in DPP but it takes (much) longer.