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 Cookbook – Before and After: The Tube (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Tube (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 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of merging those shots […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: The Ingress (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Ingress (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). You can see the 12 source images in the left three columns. These […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Up! (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Up! (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 3×5 TIFF files (series of 3 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 three columns. These images […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: The Green Room – Bebenhausen Palace, Germany (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “The Green Room – Bebenhausen Palace, Germany (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 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Basilica of Vierzehnheiligen – Bad Staffelstein, Germany (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Basilica of Vierzehnheiligen – Bad Staffelstein, Germany (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 […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Hall of Fame – Ludwigsburg, Germany (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Hall of Fame – Ludwigsburg, Germany (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 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side of the bottom row, you see the result […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Candlelight (Exposure Fusion)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Candlelight (Exposure Fusion)“. 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 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of the fusion of […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: A Room with a View – Bebenhausen Abbey, Germany
This is the before-and-after comparison of “A Room with a View – Bebenhausen Abbey, Germany (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 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Chain Bridge – Budapest, Hungary (HDR)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Chain Bridge – Budapest, Hungary (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 0, -2 and +2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of […]
HDR Cookbook – Before and After: Wuerttemberg Mausoleum – Stuttgart, Germany (HDR Vertorama)
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Wuerttemberg Mausoleum – Stuttgart, Germany (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 see the 12 […]
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