HDR. Test One. Test Two.

If you take photos, you've heard of HDR (High Definition Range) photography. I've seen some pretty epic photos that are HDR and they look surreal. So this morning, I woke up at the butt crack and grabbed my camera bag and headed down the street.

The clouds where moving pretty fast. But with the Canon 7D, I set up the bracketing sequence to +/- 3 and used the high burst to be able to stop the clouds in their tracks. I read that you could snap just one RAW shot then manipulate the file to get three different (or more) exposed photos. But didn't have to with my camera. Plus, I was shooting high rez jpgs so I had to bracket.

These are essentially my first stabs at HDR. I took the three bracketted images into Photoshop CS4. File/Automate/Merge to HDR and viola! Almost done. Messed with a couple more adjustments and then boom! HDR doggy dog. I know my shots are not as sick as some of the ones I've seen but it's only the beginning.

Now, imagine shooting surfing, bodyboarding, SUP in RAW! Holy crap, I wonder if that's how Clark Little is doing his thang? Humm.