Nikon users....

[alrmj]

Hi,

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction about the best way to bracket on Nikon DSLR for HDR shots?

I run a D70s with VR 18-200 lense set up.

Ta

ali

[prinothcat]

HDR?

[castledude]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

Can't say for the D70 but I tend to fire 5 shots with .3 EV bracketing. With my Sony.

The broader the range (going up to 2 ev per pic) gives more surreal pictures. Lower numbers give pop without looking so strange. So it depends on what you are trying to do.

Works best if you hold the same aperture. Also because of the large range you will need VR and/or tripods.

[prinothcat]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging
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Thanks!

[alrmj]

Cool Thanks for the advice,

I'm really new to HDR so advice from a nikon user on the bracketing technique would be handy too...

[alrmj]

P.S. - also I only use RAW on Apple's iPhoto, will I be able to HDR my photos on iPhoto or do I ned specific software. Thanks !

[prinothcat]

so the wiki lead me to look deeper being a curious sort and I got here
http://luxal.dachary.org/webhdr/. Has info for numerous cameras.
and here
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/hdr/index.html has scripting for *nix based systems to create images... I think.
I don't know how much you've read on this subject and I haven't dug to deeply, but both look like they may be useful. This looks like an interesting subject to learn more about.

[marxz]

P.S. - also I only use RAW on Apple's iPhoto, will I be able to HDR my photos on iPhoto or do I ned specific software. Thanks !

iPhoto doesn't do HDR... not even Aperture or LightRoom.

Photoshop CS2 & CS3 do HDR nativly... it's nice to muck arround with but it's got a more than a little sucky interface and few options image processing wise


Two programs I've tried and liked are Photomatix and and Photomatix...

errr wait... isn't that one program you ask? - yeh but you can get it as a stand alone program and/or as a photoshop plugin... I'd go the stand alone program if you don't have/want photoshop CS... the plugin for Photoshop doesn't do the merging it seems you still do that through photoshops HDR script but it handles the tone mapping far far better than Photoshops own remapping. I'm about to buy both after trialing them for the last week (at the recommendation of fellow pbase forum users)

here's a good tutorial/article on using photomatix AND photoshop
http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/
- photomatixs to create the HDR and photoshop to mask, merge and fine tune the HDR with one or more of the original images (this is great for when your image has parts that move like water... I replace the blurred out/weird looking water with the most fitting parts of the original images

[alrmj]

Excellent thanks there

I think stand alone Photomatix is the way to go for me

Will also read the other links in the post above,

Cheers!

A

[horsegoggles]

I found that Nikon's Capture NX helps me pull data out of the shadows in nef.
The following images are before and after. You can probably do the same with other tools, but NX makes it a pretty simple task.