Comments on: Single Exposure HDR

By: James Henson

James Henson — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:30:45 +0000

Kimo,

Thanks for all your hard, but I’m guessing, enjoyable work!

I am using your single photo method with the three (3) exposures, and I just thought of another benefit; this allows me to shoot hand-held shots and not have to worry about alignment. This means that I can grab shots when I don’t always have my tripod. It also helps me because my camera does not have AEB.

Thanks, buddy!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:32:55 +0000

Kimo,

What Topaz plug-in would you say is most helpful? Like if you could only use one of them which would you choose and why? I was thinking about getting Topaz Adjust.

Thanks

By: John P Hernando

John P Hernando — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:31:35 +0000

Wow! It’s my first time to read this 2nd procedure of doing 1 photo HDR. Actually, I came to discover the process when I was challenge by a friend. The only difference is I save it as a jpeg file and I don’t use the Topaz. Thanks Captain Kimo!

By: Captain Kimo

Captain Kimo — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:48:39 +0000

No problem Carlos, I hope you enjoy the plugin as much as I do.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:03:44 +0000

I start to use Topaz plugins from few month ago, I am new with them and need to know wath to do, but with your lesson I have a clear idea how to work with them………. Thanks a lot. Carlos

By: Captain Kimo

Captain Kimo — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:45:55 +0000

Yes, it’s possible to do single exposure with jpeg. I’ve done it a few times pretty successful.

By: Len

Len — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:01:16 +0000

Enjoyed your comments about HDR. Have been using Photomatix
software but enjoyed the article “single Exposure”.
Is it possible to create “HDR single exposure”, from jpeg
file? Just for the FUN OF IT, I’m sure there is a great compromise in the quality.

By: Captain Kimo

Captain Kimo — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:04:15 +0000

There is someone out there that does this, and I thought the work came out great. It definitely has it’s own characteristics!

By: Chris Bushman

Chris Bushman — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:49:25 +0000

Nicely presented Capt.

So, since color negative film has an inherently far greater dynamic range than digital capture, I’m guessing that if I scan a single color negative at three different exposures, I should be able to achieve pretty acceptable results?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:19:12 +0000

Great explanation of the single photo HDR.
I use the single photo HDR for any photo I publish to my site. For me, it gives me better control of the picture, so I’m not locked in to what my camera’s manufacturer is.
When I need more help with a shot, I will use what you have mentioned as tec #2. For that, I use the histogram to set my three levels. (I usually shoot underexposed because I can recover the color. Any overexposure is color lost to me.)
Beware to the readers though, my camera club is not a fan (yet) of what I do. I get a lot of comments and discussions, but getting them to come over to the dark side isn’t in the cards yet.
Great job.

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