HDR Before-and-After
Usually, you only see the finished image when somebody publishes their HDR work, and when you look at such an image, you tend to wonder what the original photos looked like and what the HDR process and the photographer’s personal post-processing skills really brought to this very image. Some time ago, I decided to add a little spice to the soup and also publish the source images and the intermediate result after the tone-mapping for each of my HDR images.
The result is the growing series of illustrations below that I call Before-and-After Comparisons. Just click on one of the posts below to open it and view a bigger version.
Also check out the Dynamic Before-and-After section: Pull the slider on each image back and forth to see the difference!
HDR Before and After: Ceremonial Room (HDR Vertorama)
This is the HDR before and after comparison of “Ceremonial Room (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 TIFFs method creating additional +4EV and -4EV images). You can see the […]
HDR Before and After: New Mosque – Istanbul, Turkey (HDR Vertorama)
This is the HDR before and after comparison of “New Mosque – Istanbul, Turkey (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 4×4 TIFF files (series of 4 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2EV that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method creating an additional +4EV image). You can […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Take me to Istanbul (HDR Panorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Take me to Istanbul (HDR Panorama)“. The final image was created from 10×3 TIFF files (10 series of 3 autobracketed RAW images that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW). You can see the 30 source images at the top. These images were merged into 10 32-bit HDRs […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Santorini Cathedral (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Santorini Cathedral (HDR)“. On the left side, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 6-shot autobracketing series with +2EV to -3EV in 1EV steps. In the middle, you see the result of merging those shots into a 32-bit HDR […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: St. Martin’s Cathedral (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “St. Martin’s Cathedral (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 4×5 TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 12 source images in the left three […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: The Library (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Library (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 7×3 TIFF files (series of 3 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW). You can see the 21 source images in the left three columns. These images were merged into 7 […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: The Refuge (HDR Panorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Refuge (HDR Panorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 manually bracketed RAW images that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with). You can see the 25 source images on the left side. These images were merged into 5 32-bit HDRs […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: The Alley (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Alley (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 3-shot autobracketing series with -2, 0 and +2 EV. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of merging those shots […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Mountain Shed (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Mountain Shed (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 4-shot autobracketing series with -4, -2, 0 and +2 EV. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of merging those […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Ethnographic Museum – Budapest, Hungary (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Ethnographic Museum – Budapest, Hungary (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 15 source images in the left […]
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