Join me, Jim Harmer, on an HDR landscape photography shoot at the beach in Florida. Â Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the audio from my microphone, so I had to use the windy audio from the camera's on-board mic. Â Woops!
In this video, I teach some compositional tricks for landscape photographers and go through an in-depth tutorial on how to process HDR photos. Â The entire video is only 8 minutes long, so see if you can stand to watch me for a few minutes.
HDR Photography tip #1: Don't feel like you can only do a one-exposure HDR if something is moving between shots in your HDR sequence. Â Photomatix 4.0 has a very advanced de-ghosting tool that can often fix problems like this.
HDR Photography tip #2: Photomatix doesn't show you the intermediary 32-bit HDR by default. Â Remember to check this box when creating the HDR (before tonemapping) so you can come back and tonemap the same .hdr file multiple times without having to start over. Â This way, you can use several tonemapped HDRs and blend them together in Photoshop to grab the best parts of each of the tonemapped images.
HDR Photography tip #3: HDR works well on clouds when they have some detail in the clouds. Â If there is no detail, HDR generally won't work well. Â In this case, try to change your composition so the sky won't be included. Â Otherwise it's just a huge sheet of grey that doesn't do anything for the photo's aesthetics.
Landscape photography tip #1: Use objects such as trees, buildings, or in this case sea oats to frame the sides of the photo for a stronger composition.
Landscape photography tip #2: Use paths, roads, trails, fences, and other lines to guide the viewer's eye into the frame for a more compelling composition.
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