HDR Panoramic Images Offer Exceptional Color Range! --- Photo Tip 202
HDR images have become gimmicky and a common trend among photographers, since essentially cameras are doing all the work inside cell phones these day's. When HDR first emerged as a technique, photographers had to blend a series of 3 to 9 photos in Photoshop in order to achieve desired results creating eye candy in the form of perfect photos with a proper blend of color and contrast almost impossible to achieve with normal camera equipment and standard photo techniques. In some instances people have been able to pull of a similar style to HDR using neutral density filters, however the effect of HDR in post-production is second to none offering a dynamic range that is not possible using any other kind of photo techniques that I'm aware of.
(This photograph taken in Ontario, Canada is made from 40 D3s images at an ISO of 10 000)
Panoramic images with professional camera equipment require a proper tripod and a panoramic head to capture high quality images. Unlike a cell phone professional cameras must be fixed to a tripod and are not handheld during panoramic photographs the way they are with cell phone cameras and modern-day photo software built right into cell phones which is fun for messing around with friends however the built-in software is limited in cell phone cameras for taking panoramic images. Panoramic HDR images are totally impossible with a cell phone camera or at least any smartphone I've used to date.
(HDR, Panoramic made from 150 images, ISO 6400, F16)
I wanted to take a second to posted a few images that I was able to capture, blending HDR and panoramic techniques in order to create dynamic images with what I feel have excellent color and texture, in my experience these kind or results are just not possible to achieve using other photographic techniques I have exercised in the past.
If you would like to know more or have any questions about how I achieved the look in these series of images feel free to post in the comments section below and I will respond with whatever information I can.
If you are a photographer who has captured some panoramic HDR images I would love to see what you've taken. Kindly post links in the comment section I would like to see what other photographers are doing :-)
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Beautiful shots and a nice idea. But I do not get why you would take pictures with such a high ISO when you are shooting on a tripod anyway?
I'm actually happy you asked that question, the point of ramping up the ISO is specifically to capture more images in a faster period of time during the sunset, as there is a limitation with most cameras with respect to how fast a given camera can process an image to the memory card. The fact remains more ISO equals more color and detail and Clarity in a low-light situation which is the reason why my photos look the way they do. I am not afraid to ramp up that ISO because I understand the majority of the technology put into these cameras is to make the iso more dynamic in low lighting and by default the main benefit to the user is being able to freeze objects in the frame like Cloud movement at dusk or a birthday cake in an unlit room in a more crisp way than is possible when the camera is shooting at an ISO of 100 even if the camera is on a tripod. You know what I mean?
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Two very useful and often misunderstood techniques, incredibly useful for landscape photography. Both HDR and panoramas are "camera hacks" if you will, means of extending the camera's abilities beyond it's single-frame capability, and I've seen some clever uses for both, most notably shooting panorama-style and stitching to increase photo resolution (useful for phone photography but just as practical for a DSLR - you can never have too much resolution).
I've done a few HDR panos but this one from a storm in Colorado springs to mind because the bright band of sunlight on the horizon stretched the dynamic range of the scene past what I could acceptably recover from the RAW.