How to take HDR photos of people.

[b00gym4n]

I understand that you're supposed to take 1 under exposed, 1 normal, and 1 over exposed and combine them with post processing software.

I've seen many beautiful pictures of people posing with this kind of HRD effect. How are you able to take 3 pictures of that person without moving?

Or do you just take 1 photo and darken, lighten them to create 3 copies and than compress? I'm so lost.

[Clactonian]

If you shoot in RAW you can create the three or more copies of any photograph with the required under or over exposure in your processing software. Much easier!!

[AlanP]

Movement in HDR photography is a problem. If you have people you want in the picture here are two ways of doing it.

1. Take a HDR sequence (3 or more shots required) and take a seperate photo of the person or persons and combine them in post processing.

2. Take the HDR sequence with the people included and hope that the deghosting operation in your software can remove the ghosts. I have done this with CS5 and it works most of the time.

Alan

[Nuno]

In photos with movement, I usually take only one shot, compensated by one stop down to keep the highlights. Then I create 3 pictures from the original with ajusted exposure in ACR.

I use Photomatix to create the HDR and NIK Dfine for noise reduction.

it works fine to me.

[Zuzana]

You can use AEB, or..the other way what ppl often use is (fe.in Cs) - Image>adjustments>shadows and highlights... It's big different between hdr Effect and real HDR.

[Shadowman]

And use a tripod if you are using exposure bracketing, the slightest movement by you will be evident if you are handholding the camera.

[arith]

I think my camera can manage up to 6.5 raw frames a second. So now I only take 3 frames and if the people are a fair distance away and slow moving it sometimes works.

Another way would be to load so much black glass in front of the lens that the exposure takes minutes rather than fractions of a second; actually that will cause the people to disappear. I've not done it but it just seems logical, unless they are sitting, forget that last suggestion, it is nutty.