From the course: Learning to Use Mirrorless Cameras

HDR shooting

From the course: Learning to Use Mirrorless Cameras

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HDR shooting

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- HDR gives you the same benefit of increased dynamic range but your camera will produce another image. Now typically this image is going to be a high quality JPEG and your camera may choose to save the other source files. You'll have to look at the menu and see what happens. Older cameras don't tend to keep all of the source raw images, they just keep the HDR, but a lot of newer cameras give you the choice to save the brackets and make a ready-to-use HDR that you could post directly. Let's go ahead and press that HDR button and I'll go to one of the HDR methods that's built in here. Now, my camera offers two methods here and they're slightly different depending upon what you like. You may find that your camera offers more than one HDR recipe, so be sure to look at your user manual and see what's there. Let's go ahead and capture (click) and you see that it has to do some processing. When it's done, it delivered what it thought was the right results. Now, that definitely pulled in the full dynamic range and a rich image, but I'm just going to adjust the settings here a little bit. Let's adjust the shutter speed so we have greater depth of field. Now you'll see it takes longer for each shot, but it gets the results, (clicking) and they blend together giving us a very nice exposure. Now let's try the other HDR method and you'll see a little bit of a different recipe. (clicking) That one's a bit brighter, so if we compare those, you'll notice that they just give us a different look. This one favored the shadows and this one is a brighter image, but the maximum dynamic range is preserved. This sort of flexibility gives you the ability to capture right in camera without extra post production. Now, personally I'm a fan of greater control and would rather do the editing later, but if you want to pre-visualize your HDR, or you're in a hurry, these built in modes that produce a high-quality JPEG may be what you're looking for.

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