Exposure Bracketing + HDR imagery
What is exposure bracketing?
Exposure bracketing in photography is a technique that photographers use to capture the best possible photo. It’s where you take exactly the same picture of your subject/landscape at several different exposures, so you end up with the same image with different exposures. This technique gives you a range of options to choose from when you’re editing, and you can even merge the images together to make the perfect photo with the best exposure.
There are a few different ways to bracket your shots. The most common way is to take one picture at the exposure you think looks best, then take two more photos at either side of that exposure, one slightly darker and one a little lighter. Some cameras also have an auto-bracketing feature that can do this automatically.
Why use exposure bracketing in photography?
Bracketing is useful in photography for many different reasons. It is an important technique for photographers to learn because it helps allow them to get the best possible photo of a scene.
There are several reasons why bracketing is essential in photography:
- It allows you to capture every detail in a scene.
- It helps you avoid overexposing or underexposing your photos.
- It gives you more options to choose from when you’re editing.
My attempt at exposure bracketing:
I took this image using the exposure bracketing technique. I had the exposure on -2 to create an ‘underexposure affect’ for this image. For the middle, I has the exposure on 0 so normal exposure, and for the last one I overexposed the image so it was on +2.
I then merged all of the images together to make one, so I could reach the perfect exposure for the image:
What is HDR imagery?
HDR imagery in photography stands for high dynamic range. Dynamic range is simply the range of the lightest tones to the darkest tones you can capture in a photo. In another way, it’s a measure of the light intensities from the highlights to the shadows. A HDR photo is really just two or more photos taken at different exposure levels using the exposure bracketing technique, and then merged together to create a better picture. HDR is the quality of the image produced after using the exposure bracketing technique.
