{"id":183,"date":"2006-07-02T11:23:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/07\/02\/a-first-hdr-experiment\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:42:39","slug":"a-first-hdr-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/07\/02\/a-first-hdr-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"A first HDR experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A ten stop light range is tamed<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Following on from yesterday’s column, here are the first results of trying the Photomatix HDR + Tone Mapping sofware, using five pictures taken with the 5D on a tripod, set at highest quality JPG and at ISO 200. I took the precaution of saving the camera variables (ISO, metering pattern, non-auto white balance, JPG fine) under the Custom dial setting, so I now only have to set the dial to ‘C’ with no risk of forgetting anything. The scene is of our kitchen with very bright sunlight outside. I measured a 10 stop range from the dark oak on the bar to the sky outside.<\/p>\n

Here are the five source images, all one stop apart:<\/p>\n

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Here is the result after processing the images with Photomatix – it took the application 90 seconds to combine the files on my iMac G5, 2 gHz, 2 gB:<\/p>\n

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Canon EOS 5D, ISO 200, JPG Fine, tripod. Photomatix software.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Now I have to try this in the real world. Seems like one of the local church interiors would be a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A ten stop light range is tamed. Following on from yesterday’s column, here are the first results of trying the Photomatix HDR + Tone Mapping sofware, using five pictures taken with the 5D on a tripod, set at highest quality JPG and at ISO 200. I took the precaution of saving the camera variables (ISO, … Continue reading A first HDR experiment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}