I recently shoot several photos of my sons electric scale car track using my 70-200mm L f:2.8 mounted on the Manfrotto 055XPROB tripod with the 488RC2 ballhead.

Here’s a shot of the setup:

electric_car_setup

Even though it was fun to shoot up close pictures of the small cars, I wanted to try something new this time.
At my first and so far only visit to my Photography club we were introduced to HDR photography using the Photomatix software.

I had read about H.D.R. online, but I had only attempted it using Photoshop CS3, which does a lousy job at HDR photographs.

So what is H.D.R.?

H.D.R. stands for High Dynamic Range.
Basically its one photograph made up og several exposures. The idea is that when you take a photo of something you’re not getting all the info because the camera cuts of several of the highlights and the shadows.
When you make up one photo of several others all shot with a different exposure kompensation you get all the info in one file.

Basically, you shoot several pictures of the same object, while varying the exposure of each shot. The idea is to take pictures of a stationary object. The main thing is to keep the depth of field the same through out the exposures, only changing the EV values. Same thing with the iso settings.

Here’s the finished photograph combined of the 6 shots from above.
Notice the rich colors on the cars; thats H.D.R.

Final_HDR_cars_vignet

Wanna see more H.D.R.? take a look here:
http://azr-photography.com/?page_id=837

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