How to Finalize an HDR Image

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to give you an overview and introduction to HDR, or High Dynamic Range Photography. And you can also go to your gamma settings, which is your brightness settings, and get some really, really, really interesting effects out of this. So like here, we can turn the gamma all the way down from the white clip all the way out, and the black clip all the way back. Let's do it this way, and you'll see how you get this really interesting; it almost looks, it doesn't look like a photograph anymore. It looks almost like a drawing or a painting, or something even stranger. I'm going to go with it right here, and now what you can do is you can save this, or you can make a default, or whatever. This is just, there's two different methods to this, and this is the detail enhancer. If you go to the tone compressor, you'll get a completely different image. As you can see, we start off weirder, so we can adjust our brightness; go all the way out, and go all the way up. Somewhere in the middle is probably a good spot for it. We can adjust our tonal range compression all the way back, which is nothing but blacks; all the way this way, which is going to be nothing but whites for the most part. Our contrast adaption, or adaptation rather, see like you go this way you're going to get a lot more of your whites, and a lot less fine detail, but you'll get a lot of interesting color, like this photo will look really good when it's blown up full size. And of course, your white and black clip adjustments. So, let's let's do it this way. But, I'm going to actually going to go back to the detail enhancer, except that I came up with a much more interesting looking photograph, and let's see what happens. I kind of liked the darker looking photos. There we go, and so I'm just going to hit ok now, and it's going to generate a photo."