Lately I’ve received quite a few questions asking me what my photo editing process looks like. This got me thinking about how many stages in photo processing I have actually gone through.
A few months ago I put together this post about my favorite retouching techniques.
And just recently I found a real gem. It is a cute set of actions (or ‘stylets’) called RadLab. And I ADORE that thing! The actions/stylets are super-easy to use and make the whole photo editing process really quick and enjoyable.
HDR stands for high dynamic range. And that, let me tell you, is a truly magical thing.
It works like this – you take a series of images with your camera, each shot with a different exposure from darkest to lightest (there’s a special setting in you camera to achieve that.)
Then you open these images in a program which is able to combine the best parts of the three overexposed, underexposed and balanced shots to create a dramatic image with beautiful shadowing and highlights.
Isn’t that idea just amazing?
I love it!
What I especially adore is the contrast and detail which these pictures seem to have and which I could not really achieve before.
I came across this technique some time ago, but just recently I got myself a software which helps to make this kind of magic happen (there are quite a few in the market, I chose Photomatix; you can find some really cute examples of HDR photography on their site.)
Me and HDR, this is just the beginning of our journey together. And I am so looking forward to that adventure!
I made a few more pictures to play with this new software thingy… here they are…
