Dynamic Photo HDR and Pictures from Utah

Bryce HDR, originally uploaded by BillyCrafton.

Well, I'm back safe and sound in Dayton and I'm slowly getting a chance to review my photos and clean them up.

On this trip, I purchased RoboGeo to geotag from photos and I already owned Dynamic Photo HDR to create High Dynamic Range Photos.

In this post and the one tomorrow, I'll go over in more detail the positives and negatives of Dynamic HDR with landscape photography and compare it to doing overlay layers in Photoshop CS3.

When I shoot for HDR, I like to shoot a shot for 0 exposure, -2 and +2. For my D80, I'm able to do 3 bracketed shots with a 2 step exposure but on my D300, I'm only able to do a 1 stop step so I've been shooting 5 bracketed shots. I've also switched to shooting RAW+Jpg as I usually shoot raw and find that the JPG shots seem to make it process a little faster.

For the slot canyons, I tended to shoot a shot for the shadows and then a shot metered for the sky and the dynamic range was too vaste for a standard bracketed shot.

I'll do a couple of additional comparisons on my next post showing some HDR shots compared to Photoshop layers.