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Fine Art Digital Printing
Fine Art Workflow
Extending Dynamic Range – HDR Imaging
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Every year PhotoPlus East is the biggest professional photographers trade show of the year. October 22-24, 2009. Located at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City the show boasts a huge expo floor, hundreds of exhibitors, thousands of new products and a conference with over 100 seminars.
I’ve been going for years first as an attendee and then later as a presenter.
My sessions this year include …
The Fine Digital Print
Oct 22, 2009 – 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Extending Dynamic Range – HDR
Oct 23, 2009 – 8:45 AM to 11:45 AM
Photoshop Color Strategies
Oct 24, 2009 – 1:15 PM to 3:15 PM
Check out the full list of seminars here.
HDR imagery is expanding today’s photographic aesthetics. Identifying the characteristics of contemporary HDR images will help classicists and pioneers alike. The basic ingredients are desirable for both sensibilities, but in varying combinations and to different degrees. As with solving any problem, it’s easier if you break it down into it’s component pieces and then learn what each one does and how they interact with one another. First know what to look for. Second, know what a tool can do. Third, know how to apply a tool. Once you’ve done this, you’ll be well along the way to crafting a unique style that’s all your own.
Pronounced Shadow and Highlight Detail
Accentuated Edge Contrast
Accentuated Texture
Increased Noise
Smoothed Texture
Saturation Distortions
Read more in the current issue of Digital Photo Pro.
Learn these and other techniques in my workshops.
LDR
Half HDR
HDR Simulated
HDR Simulated With Photomatix
Like the human eye, film has a nonlinear response to light. For film, we adjust the EV to fit the amount and contrast ratio of the available light into the most useful area of its curve response. Using film, you expose generally, and when compromises need to be made, you favor shadows or highlights. Details lost at the point of capture are irrecoverable.
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Today I present a seminar Extending Dynamic Range. Extending dynamic range is one of the fundamental challenges of photography since it’s invention. All forms of visual representation map the appearance of a high dynamic range scene into a low dynamic range medium (typically print). There have been many approaches to solving this problem throughout history. Now, with new technology, there are new approaches. HDR merges are popular now. In time, all of our imagery will be able to incorporate increasingly high dynamic range information.
Here’s a comparison of contrast ratios from very high dynamic range self-luminiscent objects to low dynamic range prints.
sun to starlight 1,000,000,000,000:1
human vision w/ dark adaptation 100,000,000:1
Spherocam HDR camera 50,000,000:1
Brightside monitor 200,000:1
human vision – single view 10,000:1
b/w negative film 10,000:1
typical DSLR 500:1
LCD monitor 400:1
CRT monitor 200:1
paper – best possible 100:1
paper – typical 50:1
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Colin Smith quickly details his recommended workflow for integrating Photoshop and Photomatix’s plug-in for HDR images in this useful excerpt of his HDR DVD.
Check out Colin’s HDR DVD here.
Check out my articles on Extending Dynamic Range at Digital Photo Pro.
Check out my upcoming seminar on HDR at PhotoPlus.
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PhotoPlus East starts next week.
It’s the premiere photographic tradeshow in the US.
The presentations at manufacturer booths are free.
The seminars are fee based.
Both are are excellent.
I’ll be presenting a number of sessions.
Thursday, Oct 23
9-12 Fine Art Workflow (with Mac Holbert)(TA10)
3:30-4:15 Lightroom 2 – Fine Art Output (Adobe Booth)
Friday, 10/24
9-12 Extending Dynamic Range (FA7)
2-3 Epson Poster Signing (Epson Booth)
Saturday, 10/25
9-12 The Fine Digital Print (SA9)
12:30-1:15 Lightroom 2 – Fine Art Output (Adobe Booth)
Colin explains HDR imagery in this excerpt of his HDR DVD.
Check out Colin’s HDR DVD here.
Check out my articles on Extending Dynamic Range at Digital Photo Pro.
Check out my upcoming seminar on HDR at PhotoPlus.
Check out my workshops here.
Ben Willmore showed up as a guest on Bert Monroy’s Pixel Perfect show to do a two-part installment about High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. In the first installment of the show he covers the basics of shooting for HDR, merging exposures, and tonemapping. In the second installment of the show, he covers postprocessing HDR merges.
First, view it here.
Then check out Ben’s even more detailed DVD HDR Mastery.
If you’ve watched these installments or Ben’s DVD tell others what you think here.
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