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Starting with HDR Photography

gvijayphanigvijayphani
edited March 2012 Posted in » Canon 60D Forum
Hello Moose and Team - I am a rookie at photography and owner of a new Canon 60D. Could you please provide some tips for HDR photography please?

My gear includes...
1. Canon 75-300mm lens without IS
2. Canon 18-55mm lens
3. Canon 50mm f1.8 lens

Also please recommend any particular lens to expand my gear. Thank you - Phanindra G.V.

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  • gon1885gon1885
    edited March 2012
    I have messed around with HDR and is still working the kinks out my self. I have list the programs I use to do my HDR's

    1. Lightroom - Import and touch up minor details
    2. Photomatrix Pro - Compose the images into one HDR image
    3. Photoshop - Adjust and correct certain areas of the HDR with my original 3 images.

    If you go online and search for Trey Ratcliff and HDR you will find some useful tips and tricks that help me get started. Hope this helps.
  • gvijayphanigvijayphani
    edited March 2012
    @gon1885 : Thank you for providing clues around this. I will definitely look in it. Thank you - Phanindra G.V.
  • MooseMoose
    edited March 2012
  • gvijayphanigvijayphani
    edited July 2012
    Hello Moose..

    My bad, I missed this. Sorry about that.

    Thank you very much for your directions here on HDR. I'm currently playing around with my Canon 60D for bird photography and portraits.

    I will rent out the 17-40mm and try out HDR. Thank you for replying on this. :)

    Phanindra G.V.
  • jinforthewinjinforthewin
    I would like to get into HDR photography. Should I be shooting in RAW for the 3 exposures?
  • CWECWE
    edited July 2012
    I shoot in Raw than convert to jpeg before using photomatix.
  • BrittaMBrittaM
    edited August 2012
    I have tried this several times, and I'm still only getting 1 image, not 3. Any ideas what I'm missing?
  • BrittaMBrittaM
    edited August 2012
    Moose, I followed your instructions to a T. I'm frustrated.
  • shartfordshartford
    You have to press the shutter button three separate times.
  • chicao77chicao77
    edited September 2012
    On the 60D you have to press the menu button. Then you go to the right on the second folder of options. You will see AEB option. As Moose describes, you have to use the circular scroll button at the top of the camera to setup how many steps each picture will be under and over exposed. Then click ok and take your three photos with only one shutter button click.
  • BurtamusBurtamus
    edited September 2012
    If you are just starting out, you may want to try Luminance HDR (http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/). It is Open Source (freeware) and does a great job. It takes the three images and blends them together.

    Photomatrix Pro is great if you want to shell out the bills ($99). But then again, if you are spending $1,000 plus on camera equipment, the $99 shouldn't be that bad. ;-)
  • VinylspiderVinylspider
    edited October 2012
    I've been doing a little HDR. The exposure bracketting on camera is good to get you three pictures. If you put the camera onto timer it does three shots with different shutter speeds with one press.

    I'll second the Luminance software recommendation. It's very good and free.

    I'm also playing with DSLR Controller (a bit of Android software). You can run it on a smartphone or tablet. It gives full camera control over a usb cable so you can take more than three shots and set any exposure gap you like. It does a lot of other stuff as well like focus stacking or time-lapse.
  • MarksMarks
    Every time you surprise me, your information is fantastic!

    https://fixthephoto.com/online-photoshop-editor.html
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