From the course: HDR Photography: Shooting and Processing
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Black-and-white HDR
From the course: HDR Photography: Shooting and Processing
Black-and-white HDR
We have already looked at why you might want to consider HDR techniques for your black-and-white photography. Now we're going to look at how you can go from a bracketed set of HDR images to a very nice finished black-and-white picture. Go to your Exercise Files folder and grab images 9685, 86, and 87 out of either the Chapter 5 or Chapter 6 folder and merge those in Photoshop. Be sure to do a 32-bit merge and be sure that you turn on Photoshop's deghosting features, because it was a little shaky when I took this picture and it's got some ghosting problems if you don't activate that. When you're done, save it as an EXR file, open that up in Photomatix, and tone map it, and you should have something like this. Now if everything that I just said is total gibberish to you, then you must've skipped some lessons, because we covered that particular workflow. The workflow of merging in Photoshop and tone mapping somewhere else earlier in this course. So go back and pick those up and you'll be…
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Reducing noise and correcting chromatic aberrations13m 33s
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Finishing an image8m 42s
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Handling HDR images that are "flat"13m 37s
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Combining HDR and LDR23m 3s
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Selective editing with HDR Efex Pro9m 42s
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HDR that doesn't look like HDR12m 41s
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Tone mapping troubles to watch for6m 46s
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Why use HDR for black-and-white images?5m 26s
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Black-and-white HDR12m 39s
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Panoramic HDR12m 3s
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HDR time lapse4m 24s
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Processing the trestle image10m 1s
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