It's been super windy and cold outside with a lot of rain on top of it all; so it's time to “try something new.” I was reading an article on AHDR the other day. With my limited knowledge of photography, I decided to give it a try. Here is me trying something new ….
1). Read the article I am referring to here for background … https://photographylife.com/ahdr-averaged-high-dynamic-range#duration-to...
2). CAMERA SETTINGS:
Canon 90D
Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX
ISO400
F/2.8
1/25
40mm
Exposure Meter: -2.0
Center-Weighted Average
3). PHOTOS
Photo 1: Before averaging 8 photos that are stacked and converted to smart object
Photo 2: After averaging the above smart object (Layer > Smart Objects> Stack Mode > Mean)
Photo 3: Closeup of the above before & after
Photo 4: Just ONE of the original photos edited
Photo 5: The averaged photo edited with the same settings used in photo 4
Photo 6: Closeup of edited versions – a single original vs AHDR
4). LESSON
I'm new to all of this sort of thing, and I was also a little hasty in the process – just wanting to get the general idea at this point. I'm not even sure I did everything correctly. All that being said, I am surprised by the reduction of noise as the article stated. You might need to click on the closeup images to see the differences. I do think I probably should've boosted the exposure in post processing a lot more. Also I did not do any noise or sharpness adjusting at any point.
Is Average HDR something that you all do regularly?
Let me know what you experts all think about this process.
Hope your year is beginning well!
Thanks for posting Jenny. Given your last comparison the AHDR result does show a lot less noise.
I've never used AHDR but have meddled with HDR some years ago when trying to deal with contrasty shots where shadow-highlight exposure was outside the range of the camera.
The process sounds promising. I'd really like to see results from images that have areas of deep shadows to see how they are improved.
Thanks for sharing - I guess that makes you our AHDR guru now unless anyone else steps up!