http://www.adorama.com/alc/taginfo/HDR <p><span style="font-size: small;">HDR: You've heard the term, and may have even tried it. After all, who wouldn't want to extend the range of shadows to highlights within one photo, and compensate for the relatively limited range of light capture of a typical digital camera? </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/13199 <p><span style="font-size: small;">AdoramaTV Presents Digital Photography One on One. In this week's episode Mark answers a viewer's question regarding bracketing. Watch as Mark walks through the basic steps of exposure, flash, and focus bracketing.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/13159 <p><span style="font-size: small;">The Casio EX-ZR10 is a small camera that&rsquo;s packed with bells and whistles, but can it deliver the meat and potatoes&mdash;good quality regular photos?</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12941 The last ten years revolutionized photography. Let’s take a look at some landmark events, products and technologies that defined the decade for photographers, in no particular order. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12837 <p><span style="font-size: small;">This week Mark Wallace talks about dynamic range, a topic a lot of our viewers have asked about. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12807 There must be something innate in the photographic process that engenders passionate discourse. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12714 <p><span style="font-size: small;">&ldquo;Here's a great example of making HDRI and bracketing work for you.&rdquo;&mdash;Jack Howard</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12668 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Adorama Photography TV presents "How'd They Do That" featuring Carl Heilman II. In this episode, Carl Heilman II explains how to get panoramic and standard format nature photography shots with techniques he has learned.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12647 The new Lumix cameras shoot RAW and allow for Auto Exposure Bracketing for three shots at up to 3 full EV spacings between each shot. As experienced HDRI photographers know, wider bracketing to captur http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12640 <p>As a promotional piece for his book, <a href="http://www.rockynook.com/books/170.html" target="_blank"><strong>Practical HDRI, 2nd Edition</strong></a>, Jack recently gave this hour-long screencast presentation on the great new features for HDRI photography in <a href="../../alc/taginfo/Adobe%20Photoshop%20CS5/article" target="_blank">Adobe Photoshop CS5. </a></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12599 As part of the promotional campaign for the 2nd Edition of Practical HDRI, Jack Howard, Director of New and Social Media for Adorama Camera will be giving a free hour-long webinar on High Dynamic Rang http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12573 Today’s launch of Photoshop CS5 is great news for photographers of all stripes. HDRI photographers in particular are going to love the upgrades and improvements for HDR photography. That’s right—CS5. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12456 Free music from Moby for documentarians, an open-source controller from Super Mario Land, entry-levels SLRs score great in DxOMark tests, and more! http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12381 Inspiring and amazing time lapse videos on Vimeo have been pushing me to really take the plunge into Timelapse imaging. And the growing subset of time lapse, HDR Time lapse is especially appealing to http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12339 HDR PhotoStudio is an amazing program for High Dynamic Range Imaging. If you think HDRI is all about–and only about–cartoonish colors and dodgy halo-masking, this program will make you think about it http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12257 Here's a couple of cool things I've come across recently via John Nack's blog. If you're not subscribed to this blog from the one of the lead developers of Adobe Photoshop, you should. John has a grea http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12196 From palm-sized cameras with interchangeable lenses and DSLR-sized sensors to pro cameras that could practically see in the dark, '09 will be remembered as a year of historic firsts in photography. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12150 Poring through spec sheet after spec sheet while preparing my 2009 HDR All-Stars Buying Guide piece left me sort of puzzled as to why so many cameras are hobbled straight out of the box. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12153 This blog posting is in response to the online blog conversation initiated by Andy Adams and Miki Johnson on the future of Photo Books and the question: What Will Photo Books look like in 2019? I don' http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12121 <p><span style="font-size: small;"><em>&ldquo;I can wander around this image and just get lost in the interplay of shapes, forms, and complementary colors.&rdquo;&mdash;Jack Howard</em></span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12107 <p>It&rsquo;s true that you can make great High Dynamic Range Images with almost any camera with full manual controls, but a wide and fast bracket sequence makes it so much easier. These cameras are at the top of the heap for serious HDR photographers.</p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12092 With 2,746 total votes, you chose the Pentax K7 over seven other very deserving models, by a w-i-d-e margin. Let's find out why. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12079 There are some really amazing tools for HDR photographers in Adobe Photoshop CS4, but much of the power of CS4 in 32-bit space isn't well-known. In this two-part screencast series, we'll explore ways http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12076 <p><em><span style="font-size: small;">&ldquo;I feel like I&rsquo;m looking at a psychodelic interpretation of this scene&hellip;it&rsquo;s too much!&rdquo;&mdash;Mason Resnick</span></em></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/12058 It's not that there aren't some amazing tools for HDR photographers in Adobe Photoshop CS4, it's just that these tools and tricks aren't all that well-known. In this two-part screencast series, we'll http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/12048 <p><span style="font-size: small;"><em>&ldquo;The [HDR] tone map process yearns for, searches for, and emphasizes contrast, even when it is slight or negligible, as is in the case with the nasty banding areas in the sky.&rdquo; &mdash;Jack Howard</em></span><!--EndFragment--></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11978 The just announced 12.4 megapixel Pentax K-x will be available in four color options in the US market. But over on a Pentax Japan site, there's a custom color site for the K-x that shows a heck of a l http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11893 The Pentax K-x, the new entry-level SLR with a 12.4 megapixel sensor-shift APS-C CMOS chip, shares a good bit of digital DNA with the flagship Pentax SLR, the K-7. http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11888 There's not a pocket camera in market that comes close to the feature set and image quality of the Sigma DP2 for serious High Dynamic Range Imaging, except for its Sigma sibling the DP1. And if you th http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11676 <p><span style="font-size: small;">A compact, rugged camera that&rsquo;s packed with innovations that photographers may actually find useful--and one that changes everything...</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/11609 It's official. The just-announced Pentax K-7 is the first SLR with true in-camera High Dynamic Range Imaging capabilities. The new flagship of the Pentax line replaces the K20D, and although it has a http://www.adorama.com/alc/blogarticle/11608 <p><span style="font-size: small;">True 32-bit High Dynamic Range Images have too much information to be accurately displayed on traditional computer monitors, so it is necessary to downsample or "develop" the 32-bit information into 8- or 16-bit space&mdash;just like a traditional digital photo.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8668 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Each series of bracketed source images needs to be combined into a single 32-bit High Dynamic Range Image. This 32-bit image can contain much more information than any 8- or 16-bit file type.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8667 <p><span style="font-size: small;">HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) has become a much-discussed way to get the produce images with a range of tones and colors similar to what the human eye sees. Here are </span><span style="font-size: small;">some basic HDRI techniques and advice.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8666 <p><span style="font-size: small;">HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) has become a much-discussed way to get the produce images with a range of tones and colors similar to what the human eye sees.</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8665 <p><span style="font-size: small;">In the field, High Dynamic Range Photography begins with a series of images of the same scene captured at different exposures. A tripod helps to ensure that the multiple source images are aligned properly. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8664 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Photographers from the darkroom ages learned to take pictures in a way to facilitate further improvements in the darkroom. They would "expose for shadows and develop for highlights."</span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8649 <p><span style="font-size: small;">Whether shooting with a film or digital camera, one factor remains important: Correct exposure is critical and may be even more so for digital than film. </span></p> http://www.adorama.com/alc/article/8346