Visual Photo Guide » nikon http://www.visualphotoguide.com Photography for the rest of us. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:41:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to Take an HDR Photo with a Nikon D50 or Similar Digital SLR Camera (Video) http://www.visualphotoguide.com/how-to-take-hdr-photos-video/ http://www.visualphotoguide.com/how-to-take-hdr-photos-video/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:43:05 +0000 Markus http://www.visualphotoguide.com/how-to-take-hdr-photos-video/ 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 :)

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