In-camera HDR
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 7:07 pm
I find that HDR in Sony RX-100 works quite well. It works hand-held, without a tripod. Pictures look natural. Example:
Regular: HDR: Click to enlarge.
See how details in the shadows become more visible, and how the rock overexposed to white recovered its golden sunshine color.
In-camera HDR saves a lot of time compared to combining bracketed exposure photos in Hugin, and results are better.
There are six HDR levels. Up to about level 4 most photos look natural, but it depends on the scene. There is also auto HDR level, but it picks too strong HDR for my taste.
HDR is useful for high contrast scenes, with sunny and shady areas. They are common when the sun is low.
One downside of HDR is that shapes visible due to shadows appear flatter, because shadows become less deep. See the foreground rock in the above photos.
Of course, HDR is not suitable to moving objects (branches in the wind, for example), except it seems OK for moving water.
Earlier I tried HDR in Canon PowerShot S100. It didn't work without a tripod, and I wasn't impressed with the results. But I didn't try it much.
Regular: HDR: Click to enlarge.
See how details in the shadows become more visible, and how the rock overexposed to white recovered its golden sunshine color.
In-camera HDR saves a lot of time compared to combining bracketed exposure photos in Hugin, and results are better.
There are six HDR levels. Up to about level 4 most photos look natural, but it depends on the scene. There is also auto HDR level, but it picks too strong HDR for my taste.
HDR is useful for high contrast scenes, with sunny and shady areas. They are common when the sun is low.
One downside of HDR is that shapes visible due to shadows appear flatter, because shadows become less deep. See the foreground rock in the above photos.
Of course, HDR is not suitable to moving objects (branches in the wind, for example), except it seems OK for moving water.
Earlier I tried HDR in Canon PowerShot S100. It didn't work without a tripod, and I wasn't impressed with the results. But I didn't try it much.