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# Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Digital Photography (A Lark Photography Book)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Image does tell a story, but not the one you wanted to know
  

*by S***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2012*

I actually bought this book partly to improve my HDR skills and partly based on the high ratings it has recieved. If you are looking to read a book about HDR, you probably have tried a few things using either photoshop or free software downloads. You are competitive enough to play with the available sliders, options and other enhancement tools available for each step during the workflow. If you already own an HDR software, like, Photomatix Pro, you probably are looking for a comprehensive guide / tutorial to make your photos look like the ones you have seen on the web, photo books or youtube tutorials. Unfortunately, this book is not of great help in this regard unless you are a total novice to HDR. It explains the basics very well. That's a whole lot of theory probably makes you better informed but not necessarily makes your images stand out. Printing some high quality images (illustrations) in the book with relevant technical information is helpful. But this book has well over 150 images, of which, many are totally irrelevant to what was being discussed in those sections. No doubt, those images are very pleasing and definitely the work of art, however, most of them are in no way help you improve your skills. In other words, they kind a distract you from your reading. The book does not really provide many more useful information than the Photomatix Pro Tips menu that is built in to the program and is readily available for almost every action that you perform using the software. For Photomatix Pro users, whom this book is supposedly a tutorial, there is a bigger disappointment. I guess this was written for older versions of Photomatix. The menu options, as described in step by step tutorial in this book simply do not exist in the current version of Photomatrix Pro. It shouldn't bother readers who are familiar with the recent version of Photomatix Pro, but the learners are the ones who need step by step tutorial! I really was reluctant to write such a critical review. It takes a lot of knowledge, hard work and dedication to bring out a book such as this, while criticizing is very easy. Book has several eye-catching high quality HDR images and explains the fundamentals of HDR very well. At least from my personal experience, it fell short of what I wanted out of this - an in-depth tutorial/guide to make quality HDR images using Photomatix Pro.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great Photo Book
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2013*

High Dynamic Range, (A Lark Photographic Book) HDR is a photographic technique that will improve most of yourTri Pod photography. The area this technique would be used is outdoor scenic photography. The biggest problemmost photographers find in outdoor scenic photography would be light. I know, quite often you could take a well exposed image and for general purposes it will look good under general conditions.Where HDR comes in, is that all light, (except very overcast flat lighting) has highlights and shadows, to improve your image is you take that 1st good exposure, then with cameras still on trip pod, and the f stop set, (with the shutter speed), over exposure one stop, then under expose one shot, (that makes 3  exposures) (some photographers go one step further, they do two over, and two under, making 5 exposures.With these 3 or 5 images you go to your computer, (this is where the book, High Dynamic Range book comes in) it guides you through the entire program. Your computer, (when you follow instructions) takes these, images, the over exposed onesgive your better shadows and the under exposed exposure does a better job on the high lights. It merges all these images toone, with the best of all, to obtain one great image, with better shadows and high lights.High Dynamic Range, guides your through and makes your photography stunning.Great Book, I highly recommend (High Dynamic Range)  to any photographer wanting to improve their work, and is not familiar, or knows all thje HDR steps.Robert  (25 years CSI crime scene Photography, retired and now doing scene work in the Glacier National Park area)and did not know about this until about 3 years ago. (just old, and it was not done in Crime Scene Photography)!Robert

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellently written and illustrated
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 9, 2013*

I've been pretty much serious about photography for a good long time now, but my interest in it was beginning to dissipate. Couple of months ago I ran into a picture of one of the cars on the Angels Flight railway that stymied me. I couldn't tell whether it was a touched up photograph or a photographically real painting done in the style of the Renaissance. I tracked down the photographer and how he did it, and that's where I first learned about HDR (high dynamic range) photography. This technique goosed my flagging interest in photography again!The human eye can only see so much detail. The digital camera sensor can see much less, and the now-almost-extinct medium of film even less. So how do you take a picture where you have bright highlights and deep  shadows, and show all of it? Well ideally, you mount your DSLR camera on a tripod, connect a cable release to it, set it to Aperture mode. Then you set the Bracket feature, and you take at least three shots of the same subject. One will be properly exposed, another underexposed and still another overexposed. Then you put them into your computer using special software (see my review on Photomatix Pro) and the software blends them all into one photo. Presto, you have an HDR image that pretty much mimics the detail that the human eye sees. You can do all sorts of combinations from "real" to "surreal."This book is the perfect one for newcomers to HDR photography. It is well written and beautifully illustrated: gorgeous colors made even more brilliant and sharp because printed on slick stock. If the photos in it don't inspire you to try this technique yourself, then HDR photography probably isn't for you.

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