HDR Photography

HDR stands for high dynamic range imaging. You can take either one image or a series of images, having a different exposure for each one, combining them, then editing them.

For the history of HDR, the point of it is to use several exposures to fix to a too-extreme range of luminance was pioneered as early as the 1850s by Gustave Le Gray to render seascapes showing both the sky and sea. Le Gray used one negative for the sky, and the another one with a longer exposure for the sea and combined the two into one picture in positive.

For this task you commonly take three pictures of the same object, but different exposure for each one, light, normal and dark, really all matters of the amount of light thats going through the lens at that time. When you're done taking the pictures, you put them on the computer, and a software like photoshop then combines all the pictures to bring the details to the shadows and highlights both.

I took this picture outside. The first one I took it was sunny outside, the last two it wasn't, which is probably why the first one looks better. I used a tutorial to edit my picture as it is. I learned how to merge the pictures into one HDR picture.

Jan von Holleben Biography

Jan was born in the year 1977 in Cologne & lived most of his youth in a surrogate commune. Both his parents were a cinematographer & a child therapist where he got his influence from his parents and his powerful connection between the growth of his photographic work. He followed his fathers photographic career by experimenting all different "magic tricks" with a camera at age 13, later improving his technique in commercial settings. He moved to London, and earned a degree in the Theory and History of Photography, he went into the London photographic scene, where then he worked as a photographic director, picture editor and an art director. Jan von Holleben won many awards such as the Lens Culture Award-Honorable Mention in San Francisco in 2010, and the Unicum Award-Best Ad in London.

 

I chose this picture because it caught my attention. I liked how he used indoor plants as like a bush or something and the flowers too. I think this photo is well done, theres a lot of things happening in this picture is what makes it good. He had a lot of stuff but focused in on the subject, which are the two kids.

I like this picture because it stuck out to me. I still think it could need improvement. The background is a bit underdeveloped. There is a lot of extra space, he could have made the background blue or something like the sky. I think that theres a lot of plants, a bit too much is where we kind of get more focused on the plants than the subject, the kid. I liked the sun though, its a good idea. 

I chose this picture because this one caught my eye. This one is the one I like the best. Its unique, you wouldn't see little kids riding dirt bikes and riding them like that. I still think that this picture could be improved. There is too much blank space, he could have added more stuff in the background. I like it though.

Pictures I took:

Music Cover

CD Cover

Music Inspired Cover

Hipster Effect

I liked doing this project. I got to learn how to add different layers on a picture in photoshop like light leaks, I got to get to know it better.

Last Name Alphabet Project

Alphabet Project

       I liked this project because it's original and it was fun to do. I learned to do a lot of stuff. I learned to use photoshop and to edit it, I also learned how to use a camera a bit better then how I used to.