What is HDR?

In photography, HDR stands for high dynamic range. Dynamic range is simply the range of the lightest tones to the darkest tones within a photo. Put another way — it’s a measure of the light intensities from the highlights to the shadows.

This photograph is just one of may for which Ansel Adams used the water bath development technique.  Often times it was trial and error.  So his practice was to expose two sheets of film identically for a scene he anticipated would be significant.   If, after developing the first he concluded it needed a different development treatment he developed the second as was the case with this negative.

Photoshop HDR editing

HDR ONE

I used these four images:

Which then created this:

I then played around with the dials on the right, things the the shadows and the highlights:

I then played around with the “remove ghosts” option, which created this:

My final piece from my editing of the four images was this, I think it shows some perception of Ansell Adams ideas of HDR and how his images looked, I used a model to portray the actual size of the landscape, and to give more dynamic to my image:

HDR TWO

I used these two images:

Which then created this:

I then played around with the dials on the right, things the the shadows and the highlights:

This is my final piece from using these two images, I think the momentum of the car created a blur which adds depth to the image, and in a way obstructs your field of view away from the beautiful sand dunes, also the use of the woman running created another motion blur, although this image may not relate to Ansell Adams I think that it is one of my post dynamic photos, and allows many different things for the eye to look at by the use of things like lighting, field of view ect :

HDR THREE

I used these two images:

Which then created this:

I then played around with the dials on the right, things the the shadows and the highlights:

My final image related to my other artist reference Peter Mitchell, the reason I think it relates is because his images are those more of environmental photography, so I think within my image the two people sitting on the bench together portrays a sense of his imagery: