HDR Photography - The Complete Workflow
What you'll learn
- What “dynamic range” is in an image and how to overcome your digital camera’s limitations in creating representations of demanding scenes
- How to improve and extend dynamic range in your images
- The best way to take advantage of camera’s overexposure warning feature
- Leveraging your camera’s Auto Bracketing feature
- How to take a properly exposed sequence of digital images for an HDR merge
- Processing and merging the sequence of RAW images into an HDR photo
- Merging and processing an HDR photo in Adobe Camera RAW
- Merging and tone mapping an HDR photo in Photomatix
- Fine tuning your final artwork in Adobe Photoshop
Requirements
- Ideally Photoshop CC, trial free version is more than enough
- Photomatix - trial free version
- No prior knowledge of Photoshop is necessary, I will explain all the techniques in a simple way
- We will work with high quality images provided as supplementary materials to help you move on even faster!
Description
Capturing extremely light and dark areas in a single image for eye-grabbing results is nearly impossible… unless you know advanced shooting and editing techniques to illuminate otherwise obscured details. This hands-on, comprehensive course requires no former knowledge of HDR to create breathtaking representations of even the most demanding scenes. You’ll quickly get a grasp of the complete process, beginning with the camera’s settings through to capturing the HDR sequence, merging and developing the image. You’ll also learn how to take full advantage of the data stored in the RAW files to produce scenes containing vast luminosity range and strong contrast.
Sharpen Your Skills
Create a Sequence Of Images For HDR Merge
Learn how to shoot a sequence of exposures that will give you the optimum RAW data to create beautiful artwork. Knowing how to combine an HDR merge in post production will give you confidence and peace of mind even when working with demanding lighting conditions.
Creative Color Grading
Create depth and add impact to your artwork by playing with subtle color combinations. Together we’ll explore the possibilities of beautiful color grading with the Selective Color Adjustment Layer in Photoshop.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn how to create amazing HDR photographs
- Anyone who wants to learn how to work with their digital camera in Manual Mode in demanding lighting conditions
- Aspiring photographers who want to improve their photo editing skills
- Anyone who wants to develop artistic skills in fields of creative photo processing
- Anyone who wants to create HDR photographs with Adobe Camera Raw
- Anyone who wants to create HDR photographs with Photomatix
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 2,343 Reviews
- 82,560 Students
- 20 Courses
Like you, I’m an artist. I’m passionate about creating personal, meaningful and captivating artwork. I love the freedom of the medium, as it allows - and perhaps encourages - unexpected moments that are both surprising and delightful.
Your vision is unique, and my goal is to assist you on your path to realize your artistic dreams. It’s my mission to support and nourish your talent with the tools necessary to take your photography to the next level. Sharing my experience and helping you develop your visual language helps me evolve as a teacher and enriches me as a human being.
I consider myself extremely lucky to be able to interact with people all over the world who share the same passion as me. It’s honestly my greatest thrill and source of fulfillment to foster the growth and development of the DAC community of photographers.
MY CREDENTIALS
A born-and-raised Polish girl with a passion for artistic self-expression and adventure, I trained at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2003. Photography has been my medium of choice for 20 years, starting in darkrooms and now, in the digital space. I am a featured photography skills teacher on several prominent online educational platforms and am thrilled that over 70,000 students from 183 countries around the world have joined my courses and developed their photography skills with me. It’s a great honor and delight to be engaged in this work — and it’s the best way I know of to make friends on all seven continents! As you can probably tell, I’m an obsessive learner who spends time watching, reading, photographing, editing, creating and selling educational courses.
Thank you for taking the time to visit. I’m happy we’re connected and I’m excited for the journey ahead.