Thread: HDR Photography.

Originally Posted by HeShootsNScores

Nice one!

I'm going to go back to the ferris wheel when the sly is more interesting and do it again. an interesting sky would make it pop. Actually it looks pretty neat out there right now.

Originally Posted by FlyBoeingJets

Which room in your mansion is that, Eddie?

Nice shot!

How are you like the D300?

That's the closet in the upstairs bathroom of my butler's guest house. There never is enough space, is there?

LOVING the D300! But now I have a gear wishlist that's about 1000 items long, and every item is ex-pen-sive. I might have to switch my butler to part-time for a while.

Question: Are you shooting your HDR stuff in 12-bit or 14-bit? I've just started experimenting with all the new parameters I have available, and the 12 vs 14-bit HDR tests are creating some results that I wasn't expecting (I'm calling them "saturation pockets" for now). Just wondering what your (and everyone else here, for that matter) experience was.

14-bit.

But I had to look because I couldn't remember. That was one of those "set it and forget it" things when i first bought the camera.

So I've got a question with this HDR thing. Are you always using the Bracketing feature? And when/if you do so, is it simultaneously taking 3 shots or is there a lag between the 3 or 5 shots that you take? In my manual, it makes it seem like it's taking 3 instantaneous shots but I may be mistaken.

Originally Posted by BleedingPurple

So I've got a question with this HDR thing. Are you always using the Bracketing feature? And when/if you do so, is it simultaneously taking 3 shots or is there a lag between the 3 or 5 shots that you take? In my manual, it makes it seem like it's taking 3 instantaneous shots but I may be mistaken.

Most of the images in this thread are done using bracketing of some sort. As for the speed, with the 40D it depends on which drive mode you are in. If I am not mistaken, the 40D has 3 modes, single shot (no matter how long you hold down the shutter button, the camera only takes one image), continuous, and high speed. If you are in single shot, you will have to press the shutter button 3 times, in the continuous and high speed mode you just mash the shutter button down, it will take its 3 shots and then stop. Continuous mode you will get about 3 frames a second, and in high speed you will get about 6 frames a second.

Originally Posted by PuckMonkey

Question: Are you shooting your HDR stuff in 12-bit or 14-bit? I've just started experimenting with all the new parameters I have available, and the 12 vs 14-bit HDR tests are creating some results that I wasn't expecting (I'm calling them "saturation pockets" for now). Just wondering what your (and everyone else here, for that matter) experience was.

In general 14 bit will give you smoother gradients with less posterization, but photomatrix may not play nicely with 14 bits (I can't test it out with my 12 bit dinosaur )

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