Alright, today were gonna take a look at how HDR, or high dynamic range, photos are accomplished inside of photoshop. You'll need three pictures; one that's under, one that's normal and one that's over exposed. What's gonna happen is you're gonna merge these photos together and get some details in your shadows and compress some of your highlights here and it kinda gives you either this more realistic look or surreal look.
bracketing is an option on higher end cameras that will automatically take these different exposures in one "snap". however, you can always do it manually like i did. a tripod is almost a must, even when using the bracketing setting.
Open up Photoshop and navigate; file > automate > merge to HDR. Locate your pictures and continue from there. (photoshop will run some scripts here but don't worry about that) From here you have different settings/modes, for today I'm just gonna work with local adaptation. Feel free to pause the movie and the see where my settings are to see when you notice going on in the live preview on the screen. Tweak the settings, I mean just play with this. This is so awesome. I mean you have not just one flat image anymore you have three exposures here, so you're able to go from one end of the spectrum to the other. You can really extract some details where you normally wouldn't have it with a regular photo. That looks pretty good to me. I kinda like the surreal look. Well that's it, hope this helps. Fill free to reply back with some of your own HDR photos.
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