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Using Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) is sometimes not sufficient or simply not available in your camera. In those cases, you have to take your HDR exposure series manually, but doing so is a daunting task for many photographers. In this tutorial, I describe a manual HDR bracketing technique that helps you get the perfect exposure series for every conceivable scene. It is simple and reliable, and you don’t need any math that goes beyond counting to three.
Do your photos look flat? Do you want to add some more interesting lighting effects to them in post-processing? You should really try to get the lighting right in camera while you’re shooting. But sometimes, the light just isn’t right when you are shooting, or maybe you want to achieve some different look when you post-process the image. In those cases, you can fix the image to a certain degree. In this video, I am going to show you a simple trick for creating a spotlight effect in Photoshop to improve the overall lighting.
Are you getting halos in your HDR images? Sometimes, you find the perfect setting in your HDR software, but right at that setting, halos start showing up and ruin your image. These ugly bright fringes around high-contrast edges are a well-known and common problem in HDR photography. In this video, I will first go over some tips to avoid halos in the first place. Then I will show you how to get rid of them in Photoshop by darkening those halo regions selectively.
Darkening the edges of your photos can really help you in getting more depth and in leading your viewers’ eyes to the important elements of your photo. This is called “vignetting”. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to create a vignette using non-destructive editing. That is, you will not change the pixels of your image in any way. Instead, the vignette will be on a separate layer on top of your image, and you can turn it on an off or change it at any time, independently of your work on the photo. I will show you how to do this in Photoshop.
Getting your photos straight is one of the basic requirements of photography. Crooked horizon lines in landscapes and architecture photos where the horizontal lines in buildings lean towards one side are a real show stopper. The first thing you should always try to achieve is to get straight images straight out of your [...]
In this tutorial, you will learn how to overcome the limitations of many entry-level and mid-range DSLRs for hand-held HDR shooting. Instead of being stuck with 3 shots in auto exposure bracketing mode, you will be able to virtually take as many as you like with just a little bit of additional setup time and manual switching. With a bit of practice, you won’t notice a difference to series shot with more expensive cameras.
In this first episode of Hands-on Photo Tips, I am explaining how you can save time and effort in Photoshop by combining layer masks. If you are applying selective adjustments to your images, you may end up with a number of layers, each with their own mask. Sometimes, combining existing masks into a new one [...]
Those of you who follow farbspiel-photo.com closely may have noticed that I took a little hiatus over the last few weeks. The reason is not that I am exhausted or tired of what I do here – not at all! I am more fired up than ever and full of exciting new plans. [...]
This is the HDR before and after comparison of “Let there be Light (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 4×5 TIFF files (series of 4 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2EV that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five [...]
Using special software to enhance HDR images after the tone-mapping process has become common practice today. There are a few software packages around the can be used to improve the appearance of the light and the details in the image. One of the more established and mature ones is Topaz Adjust which is [...]
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