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Single-shot HDR images in Photomatix
From the course: HDR Photography: Shooting and Processing
Single-shot HDR images in Photomatix
Earlier I mentioned a technique called faux-HDR, which is kind of a phony HDR process and you may have thought about this already. If normally for HDR I need to shoot a normally exposed image, an underexposed image, and an overexposed image, why can't I just take my normally exposed image into my RAW processor, create an underexposed version, save that out, then create an overexposed version, save that out, and pass those three final images off to my HDR merging process? That is actually what the faux-HDR technique is. It's creating a bracketed set from a single original. And it works pretty well, but it's not actually a full-on substitute for truly shooting a bracketed set. And here's why. If I shoot this image like this, taking it into my RAW converter and darkening it simply does not yield the same information as actually shooting a darker image and truly capturing that different tonal range. So this is a bit of a hack. It's a fake thing. It is again faux-HDR, but it can work very…
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Creating an HDR image in Photoshop12m 15s
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Creating an HDR image in Photomatix22m 5s
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Creating an HDR in HDR Efex11m 47s
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Merging in Photoshop and processing elsewhere3m 51s
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Using Tone Compressor in Photomatix4m 25s
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Using Exposure Fusion in Photomatix7m 35s
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Single-shot HDR images in Photomatix4m 18s
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Single-shot HDR images in HDR Efex1m 3s
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Single-shot HDR images in Photoshop5m 32s
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Ghosting and Photoshop2m 51s
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Ghosting and HDR Efex2m 47s
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Ghosting and Photomatix6m 36s
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Batch processing in Photomatix10m 51s
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