HDR ? no DRI ! Dynamic Range Increase ?!?
This is a technic that I love for shooting urban Landscape where the dynamic range is a challenge.
1. Shoot bracket photos as you would for HDR -2 0 + 2.
In Lightroom or Camera raw :
2. Retouch the normal exposed photo for the buildings.
3. Retouch the under exposed photo for sky.
4. Retouch the over exposed for the water (silky water)
5. Open all 3 raw files in one Photoshop files and blend them gently with mask and brush of 40 %
You will see a full demo on how to do this on my next podcast on monday !
Share if you like :-)
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29 Comments
Sergio Herrera
11 February 2013I love the work you do, and I really do learn alot from your youtube channel.
Graham Pace
10 February 2013Ur the MAN!
Gene Malymeik
10 February 2013As usual +Serge Ramelli you've created a fantastic image. I thoroughly enjoyed last Monday's tutorial and am looking forward to this weeks tutorial. While I like HDR to some degree, your DRI is much better, even my wife commented on how natural looking this latest image is! Thanks for sharing!
Juan Pablo Assmus
10 February 2013Hi +Lammert Doddema its not an HDR, our expert creates this images with a hand-on "HDR" work. and he define it as DRI ;-)
Lammert Doddema
10 February 2013fantastic HDR I ♥ it :)
Dansoy G. Rosario
10 February 2013Great shot!!!
Daren Le
10 February 2013Excellent image +Serge Ramelli !!!
Mikael Kvist
10 February 2013Nicke work +Serge Ramelli i think +Jay Patel calls it HDi bit same type of exposure blending. It will be intresting to se your workflow om this. And how you use your masks etc :) Looking forward until monday!
Gina Jordan
10 February 2013Can't wait to see the video on Monday. This image is nearly surreal to me, awesomely done. :)
Sébastien Beun
9 February 2013Wonderful work with gorgeous tones! :-)
Rafael Bautista
9 February 2013One of your best +Serge Ramelli. Looking forward to your video.
Rollin McCarty
9 February 2013Man Serge this is beautiful !!!
Sandy Hansen
9 February 2013Interesting
mel rolleri
9 February 2013gorgeous!!
mel rolleri
9 February 2013gorgeous!!
Shelly Gunderson
9 February 2013So beautiful!
Anikó Temlin
9 February 2013I love these beautiful images of pure perfection.
Serge Ramelli
9 February 2013+Stephen Darlington Yes a bit more but not that much, I do not do HDR anymore since at least 2 years, I either do that technic or try to get the best out of one raw file, check out the video on monday for the entire workflow from A to Z
Kalyana Kavuri
9 February 2013Great capture and brilliant work +Serge Ramelli .. Thank u for the tips. :)
Juan Pablo Assmus
9 February 2013Great image you got and good work.
Stephen Darlington
9 February 2013Looks very natural. Does it not take a lot longer than using say Merge to HDR? +Serge Ramelli
Stefan Van Theemsche
9 February 2013I agree, I quite like this result …
Serge Ramelli
9 February 2013What I men by natural is that it doesnt have that HDR look, plus this was really an awesome sunset
Stefan Van Theemsche
9 February 2013Even with HDR one might blend in the sky as the sky is often problematic with HDR.
Juan Pablo Assmus
9 February 2013Natural? mmm ok if that is the way yo want to call it. anyway cool photo.
I thin the advantage is that here you can decide what to blend and waht to leave from the back image. right?
Serge Ramelli
9 February 2013with HDR you use a software that does it all for you, with DRI you do with your hands ! more natural !
Juan Pablo Assmus
9 February 2013so what is the difference with HDR? so far great image ;-)
Javier Pantoja
9 February 2013Wonderful Serge, you are awesome ::)
Danielle Lewis
9 February 2013Beautiful, +Serge Ramelli !