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Objective
To learn how to take and create quality HDR photos using the feature in Photoshop
Directions
Use the class camera in class or outside of class (AP, lunch, after school) at school or use your own camera outside of school (if you have a manual mode and can adjust it so that you can adjust your exposure low and high) to take your photos and take proof shots.
Guidelines
- Hold the camera very still and try to take three photos all the same angle & position
- Try to include the sky in some way so that the HDR really highlights
- Look for bright colors to use & always have a focal point & good composition
Camera
If you are using a DSLR camera, like a 600D, you will want to use bracketing, which changes the camera settings so that the first photo is normal exposure, the second photo taken is brighter, and the third is darker. To enable this, go to your menu settings, choose exposure, and scroll the wheel next to the where you click to take a photo. Change it so that the red highlighted bars highlight the biggest and smallest value on the left and right like the example below.
PhotoshopAfter you have your photos on your computer, follow the directions below
- In PS, go to File > Automate > HDR Merge (this feature is only on the iMac, which means you cannot complete them on your Macbook)
- Save it as a TIFF or JPG and the highest quality. The file will probably be too high to post to posterous so just keep the saved file on your Macbook or iMac.
- View your HDR photo in Photoshop as big as you can and take a good screenshot of it. Now open your screenshot photo and go to the adjustments options and change what you need and use the curves from the video to adjust your photo curves.
- In the example below, when curves are uses wisely, you can get a good photo effect like the second photo, the first is the original HDR merge. But don't get too carried away with curves like the third photo. If you do curves correctly, you should not need to make extra multiple exposure layers and erase parts of the photo.
- You should experiment the curves by changing the dropdown box from RGB to Red, Green, etc and try to adjust only those colors to get the look you want.
- Post the jpg of the screenshot to HDR MF Picasa Album. In the caption, write your classID: Title of your photograph. On the next line of the caption, include a link to your Photomerge Picasa album which has your original photos of the HDR photo & your proof photo.
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