Moving over to Digital

[John_M_King]

I still have my darkroom and will be loath to loose it but I am becoming allergic to chemicals, especially RA4 colour and Bleach fix, so I may have to curtail that side of the operation. I would appreciate some advice about HDR images with digital and how to achieve them. I have a moderate level of expertise using Adobe (I have Photoshop 4) I know this has probably all been done/explained before but I am unable to find exactly what I want.

I will still be using colour negative film, scanned to digital, can they be used with HDR. My digital camera is a Nikon D90.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[Hatchetman]

I don't know much, but I do know:
1. with true HDR you need multiple exposures of the same shot (ie tripod, three shots, three shutter speeds).
2. most people use dedicated HDR software, either a PS add-on or independent software. Not sure how easy it is to do with basic PS.

A lot (most?) people use a technique called tone mapping to achieve results somewhat similar to HDR. That is easy to do and you only need one exposure. look for a Youtube video on how to do this in PS.

Personally I think HDR looks fake, but it does make the image "pop" on a monitor.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I still have my darkroom and will be loath to loose it but I am becoming allergic to chemicals, especially RA4 colour and Bleach fix, so I may have to curtail that side of the operation. I would appreciate some advice about HDR images with digital and how to achieve them. I have a moderate level of expertise using Adobe (I have Photoshop 4) I know this has probably all been done/explained before but I am unable to find exactly what I want.

I will still be using colour negative film, scanned to digital, can they be used with HDR. My digital camera is a Nikon D90.

Any help would be appreciated

well done HDRcan be ver impressive and captivating but be aware that it is little more than a fad. in shortyou have to make an odd number of exposures, bracketed one or more f/stops around a normal exposure.Then you use software to combine all exposures to one photograph.BTWPhotoshop is not the easiest or the best to do that but Photo matix is a favorit of many.You can get a free trial on the internetor buy a low-cost version. it is worth the investment.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

one thing worth mentioning is to bracket with shutter speed or ISOand keep the aperture constant,otherwise, changing DOFwill give you unwanted softness.this caught me out at first.