The process of HDR before and after at the Palace Theatre

Today we had the opportunity to go to the Palace Theatre to take some pictures that could potentially be used to promote the Theatre now that the building is being renovated. We took this opportunity to try out our HDR skills manually. At the start of the day I didn't know how to shoot a HDR image manually because we had only done a manual way of HDR on Camera Raw never using a camera. We had to use our light meter that is inside the camera to get the correct exposure and then change to either 1 or 2 stops up or down. To be able to gt a HDR image I learnt that I needed to use a tripod because otherwise my pictures would have been wobbly and wouldn't create a suuccessful image. These pictures show the three different exposures that you need to take in order to get a HDR image.

The image above is an image that has been taken with an incorrect exposure of -2 stops. This image was taken at a shuuter speed of 15 seconds. This image looks like it is more overposed as the image is darker.

The image above is an image that has been taken with the correct exposure which has been taken with a shutter speed of 8 seconds. You can see that images are more balanced out in this picture.

The image above was taken with an incorrect exposure of +2 stops. This image has been taken with a shutter speed of 2 seconds. In this image I can clearly see that this image is too bright and too over exposed.

Once I had merged all three images together I got one image with all the colours balanced out. I am really happy with how the image has turned out because even though the colours have been balanced out, the detail is still in the picture. Once I had made my HDR image I looked at the image to see if it needed any editing and the only thing that I could notice was that my image needed to be straightned a little bit.