The Anti-HDR HDR Photography Book

Gear
Choosing a Camera

Sensor Size

Mirrorless or SLR

Lenses

To Cable or Not to Cable?

Do You Have Support?

Tripod Legs

Tripod Heads

Memory Cards

Filters




The Fundamentals - Exposure & Composition
Exposure and Metering

Metering

Exposure & The Triumvirate

Shutter Speed

Aperture

ISO Setting

Composition

Rule of Thirds

Golden Section

Leading Lines & S-Curves




Time to Take Some Pictures?
Yield Not to Temptation (AKA, Because I Can)

What to Bracket

How Many to Bracket

Using HDR Software

Manual Blending

Can I Use My Segmented Meter?

What About ETTR?

Do I Have to Bracket?




Organization & Prep - PreBlend Work
Image Organization

Using Lightroom & Bridge

Importing Using Lightroom

Importing Using Bridge

Backing Up Your Work

Prepping Your Files for Blending

Prepping for Blending in HDR Software

In Lightroom

In Bridge




Blending Using Photomatix & SNS-HDR
Photomatix

Tonemapping

Details Enhancer

Contrast Optimizer

Exposure Fusion

SNS-HDR Pro

Tonemapping

Masking




Manual Blending Using Simple Masks
Preparation of Images for Manual Blending

Basic Panel (Tab in Camera Raw)

Curves

HSL/Grayscale

Blending with Simple Layer Masks




Advanced Blending Using Luminance Masks
Creating Luminance Masks

Blending with Luminance Masks




Final Tweaking of Merged & Tonemapped Images
Sharpening

Capture Sharpening

Creative Sharpening

Output Sharpening

Output Sharpening in Lightroom

Output Sharpening in Photoshop

Final Editing




Converting to Black & White

Converting Source Images to Black-and-White

Converting in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw

Merging in Photomatix

Blending in SNS-HDR

Converting to Black-and-White After Blending

Using Snapshots