What is exposure bracketing?

A photographic technique where multiple shots of the same scene are taken at different exposure settings to capture the full tonal range and merge them during post-processing.

What is HDR

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and refers to a technique that expresses details in content in both very bright and very dark scenes.

Response to Ansel Adams – image analysis

Same image analysis used in my Ansel Adams blog post

Contact sheet

selection process

as you can see above I used P and X to flag my images to filter out the bad ones from the ok and good ones, next I rated these images 4 or 5 stars as 4 being ok ones and 5 being good ones, finally I gave them the colour yellow or green, green being the best and yellow being good. I will now edit these images that I selected and present them bellow along with the raw images.

final images

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Evaluation

As you can see in the images above they all have one common them, that being the fact they all have a high dynamic range, this helps in some ways and particularly with this set of images to romanticize them, directly linking to Ansel Adams and his beliefs in photography. These images were likely taken with a high ISO as they are taken outside during the day in a well lit environment. HDR and exposure bracketing used in the image can help to almost expand the image in a metaphorical sense and adding things that you couldn’t see before.