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Reviving HDR Photography: Blending Old Techniques with New Tools
Blending Old Techniques with New Tools
The branch of photography offering the best debate about its aesthetic value has got to be High Dynamic Range or HDR. From the level of the photographer who is technically savvy enough to create and process HDR photography to heated discussions about over-tweaked images, just about everyone has an opinion about HDR images.
HDR photography is the art that brings fine tonal detail throughout an image by combining several photos of the same scene taken at different exposures, capturing a greater dynamic range between the light and dark areas.
If you’re like me, you have some great HDR photography from older technology that might need tweaking with the newer HDR sliders in Photoshop/Lightroom 2024 and above. Upload your HDR done deal and revamp it by tweaking it in the Camera Raw Photoshop window using the HDR slider.
Incidentally, you might not toss the Photomatix platform into the Trash, as its display of HDR samples betters Photoshop/Lightroom because there are no samples in those programs.
Photomatix’s visual choices are compelling. There is noise in some of them, but you can get rid of those pesky little pixels later using Photoshop/Lightroom HDR sliders, which…
