This is my first instructional photography video, so please excuse the camera shake. In this video, I’m showing you how to setup your camera to take the 3 differently exposed shots you will need to create an HDR photo.

In the video the steps are:

Set the dial to “P” “A” (aperture priority - per Helmut’s comment)

P setting on Nikon D50

Go to “Menu”, Settings (pencil on the left), and scroll down to #12 (BKT Set), press the dial right, Go down to AE & Flash, press the dial right, Select 2.0 Step, and press the dial right “OK”.

Bracket setting 12 Bracket set AE & Flash 2 step

Now you will see a BKT setting on your top LCD panel that looks like this:

BKT bracket setting

Take 3 photos (each little black bar disappears once you take them in turn). Voila - you have the photos you need for your HDR.

The 3 consecutive photos taken from the shot in the video are here:

HDR -2

HDR 0

HDR +2

Each one is taken with a different exposure setting - the EV Steps. Once you combine them all in HDR processing software (I use Photomatix) and tweak the settings, the resulting photo should look like this:

Combined HDR

Maybe next time I’ll take a photo of something more exciting than some garbage cans and a driveway :)