Historic Drayton Hall in Charleston, South Carolina offers interesting architectural patterns. In this video, professional shooter Tony Sweet photographs a series of stone antechambers in high dynamic range. You will learn how to create HDR images that capture the full details of these high-contrast type of subjects.
Using a 14mm lens and six different full-stop exposures, Tony frames the stone archway opening onto bright sky, trees, and lawn. He also shoots a lineup of stone vestibules in the vertical and horizontal formats. The processed files assembled in editing solve the problems of dark shadows and bright highlights, and the finished HDR images capture the full tonal range.
See all of the videos in our Visual Artistry Course:
- Visual Artistry—Course Preview
- Using Long Exposure to Photograph Water
- HDR Photography: Capturing a Water Scene
- Close-Up Photography: Capturing the Details of Shells
- Photographing Scenery with Multiple Exposures
- Black and White Conversion
- Capturing the Beauty of Downtown Charleston
- Infrared Photography: Tips on Shooting and Editing
- How to Mirror an Image Using Photoshop
- How to Photomerge to Create a Panoramic Image
- Creating a Digital Sandwich
- Capturing Unique Shots in Drayton Cellar
- Capturing HDR Images at Drayton
- Capturing and Editing Infrared Images
- Mirroring Images at Magnolia Gardens
- Photographing Charleston Gallery
- Drayton Hall: Stitching and Merging Photos
- Assembling a Digital Sandwich at Magnolia Gardens
- Photographing Trees with Multiple Exposures
