Do you want MORE from your pictures?
Well I think I have something to say about it.
Recently, as some of you know I bought a DSLR.
A DSRL is not a brand-new car, it's just a Digital Single Lens Reflex.
The name of the camera is Nikon D40. It's a 2006 camera and it's considered the most basic one for begginers.
That's exactly what I wanted, because before that I knew nothing about how to take pictures.
Even though it's the basic one taking pictures with a DSLR is another concept of taking pictures.
During my period living in London, looking at my new toy and all the bookshops you can go there, it was no strange that I also bought a book about DSRL.
Many advices on How to make good pictures and how to become a very good photographer are in there.
The book is: Collins Digital SLR Handbook.
It was actually my tube-travel partner throughout my stance in London, reading it just before frame the big Ben or the Thames with my D40.
In this point, many of you would be asking what is HDR and why I titled this page like this. Well, cameras and pictures are closely related with HDR.
High Dynamic Range also known as HDR is a technique used for giving more energy to your pictures. "Mixing" the same picture with different exposures
the results are great!
http://www.dzoom.org.es/noticia-1444.html
As I have Adobe Photoshop CS2 I didn't want to complicate myself and I looked for the best way to create a HDR picture with CS2.
Lookin up in the internet everyone can see that there are two ways to create a HDR picture:
1)You can take diferent pictures of the same place with different exposures and with a compress format (as jpg).
2)You can take one picture with the RAW format. Afterwards you can create new pictures with different exposures from the original RAW.
I selected the second one, but there was a problem. Here I noticed that I needed a plug-in for the CS2 for watching and editing my RAW pictures.
It is called Camera raw 3,7 (It depends on your camera and your Photoshop version).
Got it here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=3587&fileID=3377
Once I had the pictures I wanted I just follow the very good explained steps shown below:
http://www.dzoom.org.es/noticia-1585.html
The first one I selected for practising HDR was the London eye, what I took a picture of it the last week.
Here you can check it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fernandomartin/
Let's HDR!
