I awoke on Labor day Monday to rain. A rare summer occurrence in Southern California. After I stopped off for a Smoothie at Jamba Juice (Mmmmm). I headed down the road to the Vineyards of Wine country thinking there may be some cool shots because of the clouds. The rain let up enough for me to set-up amongst the grape vines.
The first things I noticed was that the light was VERY flat because of the cloud cover but the scene still had some interest to me. I measured the light range with my cameras meter from brightest to dark and the range only covered less than 3 stops. Now right there that should have told me not to shoot an HDR and I should have taken the advice I normally give and just shot it traditionally in one exposure. But two things came to mind, the fact that I am testing some new software and thought this might be a good test and also…well I just plain thought I could get just a little extra out of the sky with a 3 Exposure HDR shot at -2, 0 +2 EV.
Well, I was wrong. Here are the three exposures (Click to enlarge)
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Thanks for sharing. It’s helpful to see when HDR isnt always a help to an image.
What would have happened with a single exposure HDR?
A single image HDR or what actually would just amount to a Tone Mapped single image, would have been very similar to the final result that I obtained and would have been more than suffcient
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