HDR Photography

The other week a friend and I went out to take a few photos and create a HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo. My friend is a photographer with W&B Automotive Photography. This outing was inspired by this thread over at mx5cartalk.com that was talking about HDR photography.

So Andrew and I headed out on a Wednesday night a couple of weeks ago and found an empty car park where we could take some photos. Basically the idea with shooting for a HDR photo is to take a photo at the correct exposure and then bracket that with a couple of photos that are over exposed and a couple that are under exposed, generally changing the exposure by 1 stop at a time.

Once you have your photos with multiple different exposures, you can then use software to blend the photos and create the final product. A common piece of software used for HDR is Photomatix. Below is the final result. Thanks Andrew!