If you are in the process of learning HDR photography, this section could help you a lot! When I was trying to learn how to create awesome HDR photography I came across several video tutorials that was really helpful and showed me some useful technics that were both elementary and also verygood to produce great HDR photos.

The following tutorial is really great and shows step to step process of taking and creating HDR photography. What is really great about this tutorial is that everything is explained from the beginning and from basics!

I have some good news for you. There is no need to have any special camera to be able to produce HDR photograpy.

The basic function your camera should be able to manage is exposure, because basically the only thing you need to be able to produce HDR photography is explosure correction. Auto bracketing is definitely nice function and very helpful in producing the HDR photos but it is not necessary.

For more information how to prepare camera for producing HDR photos can be found in my other post here:

http://hdrphotographysite.com/how-to-prepare-images-for-hdr-photos/

Exposure

Exposure can be defined like amount of light that is falling to photographic film (or chip in digital photography) during the time you are taking your photo. It is often measured and reffered like EV (Exposure Value).

Under exposure

Under exposure that you don’t allow enough light to fall on your film or chip during taking the photo.

Over exposure

Over exposure mean to much light for your photo that will usualy cause blowing of highlights area of your picture.

Where to go next?
HDR photo general info
How to create HDR image

If you are not familiar with basic terms used in photo industry, you can read some of the definitions in my other posts here:

hdr photos – basic terms explanation

HDR images are basically merger of 3 images into one:

Under exposed image

Correctly exposed image
 

Over exposed image

This approach is the basis for HDR photography as it can deliver you details in highligths and also in lowlight areas of your scenery.

In order to take 3 different explosures of the exactly same scenery, you will probably need to adopt the following approach:

1) Use Tripod – Tripod is a basic photography equipment and it is also necesarry tool to produce stunning high definition range images. I strongly recommend you to use tripod as it delivers you much more value to your photography than you might know.

2) After setting up you camera and tripod to the scene you want to capture; you swith the camera to Av (Aperture value) mode. It depends on the type of lens you use, but for HDR photography, aperture somewhere between 8 – 13 value should be ok to produce great images.

3) Setting up auto-bracketing mode. This is where the fun begins. You can also set the explosure manually, but using of autobracketing of you camera is much more easier and less-pain apporach. Auto-bracketing usually set the camera to 3 in a row shots with different explosure settings. You can experiment in this part, but usually the best results can be obtains with explosure values of -2,0,+2 or -1,0,+1. But I strongly recommend you experimenting here! You can also take 5 different explosures for example.

4) Set the camera to self-timer is this will produce 3 different images with no difference.

Final result can be such as this

 What is HDR?
 Abbreviation HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. This can be understood as special technique that allows extending the dynamic range of your photographs (more than any camera is actually able to capture). By dynamic range we mean range between lightest and darkest areas of photography.

How to create HDR?
HDR photography can be achieved by several different ways and methods. Let’s have a look a little bit close to most frequently used HDR techniques:

• Use of specialised automated software like Photomatix
• Use other photo softwares and process the pictures manually (Photoshop for example)

What do I need for producing HDR Images?

Let’s have a little bit deeper look to how you can prepare your images to create HDR results:

How to create HDR photos