This past Thursday Outrider headed out to Red River Gorge to capture some video, time-lapse, and HDR. We were excited to experiment more with HDR as some of our favorite photographs were taken using this technique.
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. The sensors of digital (and film) cameras are limited to a certain range of exposure – meaning the sensors are limited in how much information they can obtain from dark to light. In order to cheat this limitation, photographers will take multiple shots of the same image at different exposures and composite a single photograph which holds the darkest of darks and brightest of highlights (and everything in between). The challenge is to composite these photographs in a photorealistic way – free of “otherwordly” and surreal tone mapping. Good HDR means that most will not be able to tell that it is an HDR image.
Fun stuff.
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