HDR Photography Process

HDR ProcessSee-ming Lee 李思明 SMLseeminglee@smluniverse.com@seeminglee

風暴 Storm /

香港吐露港之寧 Hong Kong Tolo Harbour Serenity HDR /

SML.20130726.6D.24188-89-90.HDR.P1.L1.BW

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0EVISO 100 f/8.0 24mm1/400 sec

-3EVISO 100 f/8.0 24mm1/3200 sec

+3EVISO 100 f/8.0 24mm1/50 sec

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Overall + Clouds + Sea

Highlights + Sunlight

Shadows + Buildings + Water surface

Photoshop Merge to HDR Pro + Focus on extracing details + Not the final image

Not done yet + Most people publish during this step + But this is not the image I saw when I made the capture

Lab: Luminance curve for shadows + 16-bit workflow for luminance range manipibility

Overall luminance contrastHDR Process Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited 7 of 12

Curve for sky via layer mask HDR Process Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited 8 of 12

Curve for horizonHDR Process Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited 9 of 12

Remove color if it distracts + Quick black and white conversion by removing saturation (lazy method)

Lightroom S+H Adjustments + Clairty module modifies local contrast similar to Photoshop Shadows+Highlights + Some tasks easier to tweak in Lightroom

Every image is different.There are no rules.

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