Basic photo editing for beginners -HDR #club100

We often come across a situation where we want to take a beautiful picture in which the sun is located. The sun is the brightest natural light source. Usually the dynamic range of the camera is not enough to take a picture without overexposure or excessive darkening. In order to avoid overexposure, we are forced to cover the aperture as much as possible or make the shutter speed shorter. In this case, the light from the sun will not look like a white spot without color. But at the same time, the rest of the objects in the frame will look dark and even sometimes black, and in these places we can lose details.
If we focus on details when setting up the camera, then the sun and the area around it will most likely be white and will also lose detail and color.
The best way to get a normal shot is to use technology. HDR. This is a separate topic and we will talk about it later. And now I want to show you a compromise way to get a decent quality frame.

It's time to talk about HDR technology.
Its essence lies in stitching several photos into one. To do this, you first need to take these few shots. We have a desire to take a beautiful picture against the sun or other bright light source. Such a source can be white snow in sunny weather, or even the sky itself, when other objects have insufficient illumination. A very wide range of illumination (from bright to dark) does not allow the camera to preserve the details in the picture at the same time in the light and dark areas of the frame. (dynamic range).

In this case, you can take several pictures (usually three are enough, maybe more), which will differ in the camera settings. What are these settings?

В этом случае можно сделать несколько снимков (обычно достаточно трёх, возможно и больше), которые будут отличаться настройками камеры. Каковы эти настройки?

It is advisable to have a tripod, but it is enough to take a stable, stable posture and not move the camera when taking pictures. For example, remember the detail in one of the corners of the photo and each time follow its position in the same place.
Next, you must set the desired depth of field by opening or closing the aperture. In the future, we do not touch it. This is a constant for the entire series. It is desirable to have an ISO value in the range of 100-250 to avoid matrix noise and graininess.
Next, you set up your camera so that you can see details in the bright area of ​​the photo. This is conveniently done using the exposure value. By making it short, we darken the frame. It should be darkened to such an extent until the details in the shadows begin to disappear. We take a picture. This is the first photo.

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Without changing the position of the camera, turn the shutter speed wheel by 2-3 stops and take the second picture. Once again we turn the wheel a couple of stops and lengthen the shutter speed even more. And so on until the details in the shadows are clearly visible. Thus, we get a series of identical shots with different shutter speeds.

You can move and vice versa from long exposures to short exposures.

Не меняя положения камеры крутим колёсико выдержки на 2-3 стопа и делаем второй снимок. Ещё раз крутим колёсико на пару стопов и удлиняем выдержку ещё больше. И так до тех пор, пока детали в тенях будут отчётливо видны. Таким образом мы получаем серию одинаковых снимков с разной выдержкой.
Можно двигаться и наоборот от длинных выдержек к коротким.

So, here are the original photos without processing. Here we have 3 photos. We select them in the Lightroom program (or in some other), open the tabs: photo-combine photo-HDR.

Итак, вот исходные фото без обработки. Здесь имеем 3 фото. Выделяем их в программе Лайтрум (или в какой-то другой), открываем вкладки: фото-объединить фото- HDR.

The program makes a preview of the result and if everything suits us, we press the "sew" button.

Программа делает превью результата и если нас всё устраивает, нажимаем кнопку "сшить".

As a result, we get such a photo.

There are no overexposures and black areas without details. Further processing allows you to get any desired result, since all data is in RAW format. For example like this.

Здесь нет пересветов и чёрных областей без деталей. Дальнейшая обработка позволяет получить любой желаемый результат, поскольку все данные находятся в формате RAW. Например такой.

In any case, you have a suitable starting material.

В любом случае у вас подходящий начальный материал.

Previous materials:

Basic photo editing for beginners

Cropping a photo

Camera selection

Manual camera settings

Manual camera settings: exposure

Lens #1

Lens #2

Depth of field

Long exposure

Applying a polar coordinate filter

Basic photo editing for beginners - Photo against the sun

Basic photo editing for beginners - Panorama

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