Movenpick HDR

Beauty of HDR

If your object is still, always go with the HDR!

HDR (or High Dynamic Range) shot always gives the best result. Normally, if your building is in normal exposure, the sky gets over exposed. Similarly if you expose sky just enough, your building gets dark. Its nearly impossible to get them both in normal exposure, unless you use HDR.


Not the HDR option your camera gives. That option is very limited and sometimes gives you worst results. I'm talking about the manual HDR. via Bracketing!

What is Bracketing?

Bracketing (BKT) is a feature that gives you an option to take 3 (or 5; but I prefer 3) shots, one at normal exposure, one underexposed and one overexposed.

In the post processing, you use a software like Adobe Photoshop or VEfex Pro 2 and that software merges the three shots and gives you a HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photo. This is a combination of 3 (normal, over, and under exposed) shots so you get a WIDE range of colors in this. Less noise and an awesome photo overall.

Bracketing option on my Sony Alpha A6000 Mirrorless Camera :)

My A6000 gives me 2 options of Bracketing. Continuous Bracket and Single Bracket. They are both almost same but the only difference is that in Continuous Bracket, it captures all the three shots simultaneously while I keep the shutter button pressed. Single Bracket option takes 1 shot at a time. Means; to capture 3 shots, I have to press shutter button THREE times.


I find this option of more use. Sometimes the over exposed shot (The third one) is TOO MUCH over exposed, in Single Bracketing, I can manually lower the exposure of only the third shot which significantly improves the result picture.


You've seen the HDR version of my shot above in the post. Now let's take a look at the original shots:

16mm focal length, ISO-100, f/4, 1/500 sec. Exposure bias: -3 step.

16mm focal length, ISO-100, f/4, 1/60 sec. Exposure bias: 0 step.

16mm focal length, ISO-100, f/4, 1/8 sec. Exposure bias: +3 step.

And here's the result image:

Yes that's my logo on the building xD

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by Mubashir Younus Lakhana (MYL)