South Carolina’s Magnolia Gardens is home to a colorful river bridge. In this video, professional shooter Tony Sweet shows you how to capture this bridge through mirroring. You will learn how to make an HDR image from multiple exposures and how to create the mirror image in editing.
In the HDR format, Tony shoots five exposures at different settings, framing the half of the bridge that includes azalea flowers. In editing, he processes the five exposures into a single HDR image. To create the mirror image, he doubles the size of the canvas and flips the original photograph horizontally so that the two compositions mirror each other, resulting in a beautiful bridge panorama.
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
