Chapter 9
exposure, thus giving us much more control over the final image. I always try to finde as realistics as possible final picture. Here I was thinking about Natural (left one) and Interior (right one) picture. Because of the billboard picture my decision was to choose more colored interior picture just to attract the eye to image. Here you can see real HDR done from 9 picture from Baroque castle in Ratschtadt. We can also create Pseudo or False HDR, that actually consists of one single image. Program like Photomatix allows us to do this, but it can also be done by working with shadows highlights and tones in Photoshop, the most common program used for Pseudo HDR is Lightroom, which gives great results. There is only one necessity, it is important to rember to take pictures in RAW format. On the picture at the bottom you can see a self portrait (taken with tripod and with 10 seconds timer‌ so I ´d really had to run so quickly from camera to yellow chair). Final picture was done from two pictures from right corner)
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