Prepping your camera and taking HDR, bracketed exposures

A while back on the blog I did a text narrative on how to adjust your camera to bracket exposures. A lot of feedback and comments came from that set of posts, including requests to actually show it with visuals. Rather than do a whole series of screen captures showing how I set and adjusted for each frame, I decided to capture a video of it. I show both methods - the first using the AEB feature of most SLR cameras, and then the manual approach with my Canon 40D. Comments and feedback are welcome and appreciated

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HDR
• bracketing
• steps
• settings
• Canon
• photography
• tips
• tricks
• tutorials

[achalk4]

only one suggestion I want to add here. for hdr you should use aperture priority instead of shutter priority because the depth of field will be totally messed up when you merge your images.

[CanonBlogger]

@achalk4 Yeah, I made this video without considering the effects on dof in post production. Oh well, at least the principle holds! LOL

[CanonBlogger]

Yah - up to the part where I got it completely backwards i front of a global audience! LOL

[CanonBlogger]

Now see, this is why one should never communicate when over-tired. pardon my brain, it's operating on about 1 hour of sleep over the past 2 days and I am apparently becoming dyslexic - my bad! LOL (And thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow!) *grin* (Psst...I did rtfm, how embarrassing is that? LOL)

[CanonBlogger]

Heh, I've gotten enough feedback that I am considering retracting the whole idea of taking HDR shots by changing aperture...

But if YOu are in Av (for BileMonkey) you ARE changing the aperture not the shutter. If you want shutter to be the only thing changing, you should be in Tv

[CanonBlogger]

According to who? Why? Seems a rather blanket statement without any supporting evidence. Sure, most keep aperture constant, but changing aperture and adjusting shutter is another way to go - think outside the box my friend...

[lkj17]

very helpful

[sintheahh]

Every body thinks that they should give their 2 cents about what they find wrong about this video, i wonder if they put up any videos in which they did a better job?

Hey guys cannon blogger isnt trying to write a bible here.

Bottom line, you helped my navigate thru the menu a bit better, and im planning on playing around with the different settings to find what way i think works best. I would recommend learning that way, its much more rewarding in the end.

[dougiefresh66]

thanks , could never figure this out til now ...I sold my 40 for a 60D, but never did HDR or bracketing until this year , thanks

[JeremyRami]

Thanks now am understood

[LEXPIX]

Cool. Gotta love auto bracketing.

[dd2465]

i have a canon mark iv and this was a great help, had to alter a few things but it helped finding the auto bracketing system for me! Thank you tons and great vid!

[mysteryliner]

because the reason you buy an SLR is so YOU can chose the composition, YOU select the depth.

and like ~BileMonkey~ said because if you compose 3 shots, one with f 2.8(background out of focus) one semi-in focus and one at f 12 (background huge focus) you let your software do it's thing and you get. blur+semi blur+ no blur... All in one.

You think your outside the box my friend but your in the box.

[mikeysphotography]

awesome video thanks canonblogger