How to shoot HDR with Nikon D90?

Question

I just bought my Nikon D90 and want to do HDR, can someone teach me how?

Thanks a million!

Answer 1

If you do realstic HDR, you may try HDR Darkroom. It's perfect.

Answer 2

Nikon D90 Hdr

Answer 3

- Use a sturdy tripod. If you have a remote, use it. You can get an IR remote for the D90 for $15 to $20.



- Use manual focus (you can use auto focus then switch to manual focus to lock your focus). You don't want the camera refocusing on every shot.



- Use a fixed aperture. If you change the aperture, you will change the depth of field which means your images won't stack up properly.



- Set your ISO to a fixed value. Be sure auto ISO is turned off.



- Purists will shoot in raw, but when playing around, you can shoot in JPEG and still get decent results.



- Take a series of shots changing only the shutter speed. You want to have shots properly exposed for the dark through bright areas. Don't go much more than 1 stop between images. You can do 2 stops, but the results aren't as nice as 1 stop. Use your histogram and/or highlight review mode to see what your exposure looks like on your camera. The highlight review mode is very useful as it shows which objects are overexposed. Some folks will try use the bracketing feature, but that will work only some of the time.



- If you use raw, purists will convert the image to a linear light space TIFF image. It will look horrible since the gamma is set to unity. However, mathematically, it is easier for HDR programs to swallow a linear light space. Such a program to convert to linear light space TIFF is dcraw.exe .



- Purists will align their image stack due to slight camera movement on the tripod. There's a nice program called align_image_stack.exe which is included with Hugin. This program will correct small camera movement.



- Finally, you do your image stacking. There are a number of programs to do this. Newer version of Photoshop does a nice job with HDR. If you want to go free, then enfuse.exe (part of the Hugin distribution) or TuFuse.exe. These are command line programs which give realistic final images. There are GUI wrappers for these programs. If you want strange tone mapping colors, then use QtPfsGui or similar ilk.



- If you went the purist route and used linear light space, then you need to add a gamma of around 2.2 to your images. You'll probably want to play with the levels curves to beautify your images. You'll need Photoshop or GIMP to do this.



http://wiki.panotools.org/Enfuse

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

http://www.tawbaware.com/tufuse.htm

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

Answer 4

Is there any way to bake a cake without adding all the ingredients? HDR is a process. There are NO shortcuts. The $1000 Photoshop CS 5 has a "one shot" HDR feature if you want to try that. HDR is all about controlling a wide range of exposures and compiling them into one image. Some people have tried shooting a good RAW file and then processing it using three different exposures and compiling those, but that can be more complicated than just doing it in the camera. With your camera on a tripod, take three exposures of the same subject. A EO, NE and UE using the shutter speed to vary the exposure. Using the aperture will produce changes in the depth of field and the image will look queer

Answer 5

Put camera on tripod, set to take bracketed exposures, push shutter release or better yet get a remote trigger. Import into photoshop or other hdr program and have fun.

Answer 6

Well, you have to manually do HDR in some editing program.



What you can do if you want to do it with your camera is shoot in a high exposure, normal, and low exposure of the same shot.



http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/11/11/how-to-make-hdr-images

http://photocritic.org/hdr-photography-how-to/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVuDbcAfN_I

Answer 7

A tripod is more convenient but not absolutely necessary.



How to bracket your exposure:



http://www.redbubble.com/groups/nikon-dslr-users-group/forums/2938/topics/31739-hdr-bracketing-with-the-d90



Do shoot raw.



Run the results trough hdr softwar esuch as photomatix light or pro.



http://www.hdrsoft.com/download.html

Answer 8

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How to shoot HDR with Nikon D90?

I just bought my Nikon D90 and want to do HDR, can someone teach me how?



Thanks a million!

Answer 9

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