{"id":1979,"date":"2011-10-06T23:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2011-10-06T23:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:36:06","slug":"why-hdr-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Why HDR Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last one to share for the evening. This shot is an HDR Black and White that I did for my book “The HDR Book”\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/rchdr<\/a> – hope you check it out… <\/em><\/p>\n

Why HDR Black and White<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve been experimenting with the concept for a bit and made it a chapter for people to wrap their head around, but here’s the gist:<\/p>\n

Go back to something like The Zone System. Looking at from a 35,000 foot view – what was being said by Ansel Adams was “Lets take this area.. we will call this area\u00a0tree<\/em> and we will exposure it in a specific manner. See this part? This part is called\u00a0rock<\/em> and this will be exposed in this manner. See this? This is called\u00a0edge of mountain<\/em> and we will expose\u00a0this<\/em> part like so,,”<\/p>\n

Now, these things weren’t called Rock, Tree, and Edge of mountain – he just gave them numbers and called them “Zones”. So, basically – the guy was looking at an image and selectively adjusting (or toning) portions of it as he liked them.<\/p>\n

How different is this from what software does. When we run 5 brackets through HDR software, we move sliders around and things start looking\u00a0different<\/strong><\/em>. This\u00a0difference<\/em> is just software doing exactly the same thing. It’s looking at the file, and selecting areas, and toning them a specific way, based on the slider you’re jiggling.<\/p>\n

So.. what if you used all of the Hyper color result that you got in an HDR file, and then just used the\u00a0color<\/em> portion of it was a recipe for what goes black, what goes not so black, and what goes white. What happens then?<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you… cool things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last one to share for the evening. This shot is an HDR Black and White that I did…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-photography","8":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}