Product Description

A gorgeous full–color guide to high dynamic range (HDR) photography

With HDR, people can boost detail in the light and shadow areas of a photograph, enhancing crispness and clarity to an astonishing degree–and heightening expressiveness and dramatic impact. This beautiful book reveals the secrets of spectacular HDR images, covering everything from camera set–up and basic Photomix or Photoshop manipulation to toning, reducing noise, creating panoramas, layering images, and adding vignettes and other finishing touches. Hundreds of striking full–color images taken around the world illustrate techniques and showcase the creative power of this increasingly popular technique.

Pete Carr (Liverpool, UK) is one of the leading specialists in HDR photography. His work has been featured by Professional Photographer, JPG Magazine, DSLR User, the BBC, and various galleries around the UK. Robert Correll (Fort Wayne, IN) is a digital photo expert who writes monthly photo retouching articles and tutorials for the Paint Shop Pro Photo magazine and has his own professional photo retouching and restoring business.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70684 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
"One of the best things about this book is the ′assignments′...great interative, fun." (Digital SLR Photography, August 2009)

‘…really tackles the practice in some depth.’. (Amateur Photographer, September 2009).

From the Back Cover

Expand your artistic vision with HDR photography

By artfully blending multiple exposures, you can create images with incredible detail, photos that mimic fine paintings, surrealistic imagery — once you understand the process, your options are virtually endless. This book explains the tools you need to get started and how to create high dynamic range (HDR) images. You learn to evaluate a scene, photograph different subjects for the best HDR results, gain skill with software, and begin a lifetime of exploration.

• See how HDR compensates for the camera′s limited ability to record the visible range of light

• Examine the necessary camera features and accessories

• Learn to process HDR images using Photomatix and Photoshop® Elements

• Learn to create HDR photos from single exposures

• Experiment with landscapes, cityscapes, interior shots, black–and–white, nighttime photos, and more

Save 15% on Photomatix software when you buy this book! Details inside!

About the Author

PETE CARR became fascinated with photography at age 10. He became a software engineer, but soon returned to his first love. He authors an award–winning photoblog, Vanilla Days.

ROBERT CORRELL is an author, artist, music producer, audio engineer, and musician as well as a photographer. He′s an expert in image–editing software.

Customer Reviews

HDR photo workshop
I have actually returned this book for credit. Whilst it is probably a good buy for a COMPLETE beginner it devotes too much time and space to the basics of photography that, in my opinion, anyone who has reached the stage of developing an interest in HDR, already knows.

Limited
Ive always been impressed with Pete Carr's photos and I thought this book would explain the process of how to create HDR in detail. Unfortunatley the book does not do this. It only skims over the main software photomatix. In fact it only has around 4-5 screenshots of the software.

I agree with the other reviewer that the book has too much basics in it. Composition and the rules of thirds are covered over and over again.

There is a lot of duplication in the book and constant reminders to shoot in the "golden hours".

I wouldn't recommend this book if you have ever tried HDR and looking to improve your technique. This book most certainly wont do that.

You can learn how to create HDR on Pete Carr's website better than you can with this book. Great shame.

On a plus note there are some cracking photos in there.

A great HDR manual.
This is an excellent book if you want to get into HDR using Photomatix and a version of Photoshop, as no space is wasted discussing and comparing results from various software options.
I loved the photos and the detailed info on Photomatix, plus the fact that "pseudo HDR's" from one raw file are taken seriously and shown to be capable of good results.
A lot of time is spent on the "after Photomatix" processing, which is the secret of making a great HDR picture.
Beware though, you could become addicted to HDR.
Buy it !