Late last year I’ve bought my first HDR capable monitor for my PC and got interested in HDR photography. Not the fake multi-exposure tone mapping into SDR, but proper HDR with DCI-P3 wide colour gamut and high brightness. Just like our mobile phones take photos for years now.
HDR photography is very new and there’s not much information about it yet. Thankfully, Greg Benz have compiled everything he knows on the topic and it was a very helpful reading.
Another issue is RAW processing. Adobe Lightroom is the only RAW processing software capable of HDR at the moment, and if you don’t like it or don’t use it for whatever reason then you’re out of luck. Most gallery and cataloguing apps don’t support HDR either. The best way to share your HDR work right now is to use Instagram.
With that said, I went for a walk to Richmond Park in London on a bit gloomy autumn day with my camera and took some shots. After some trial and error I think I managed to produce a few HDR photos which look OK. And started working on a small open source gallery generator with HDR support (that’s still a work in progress).
Please enjoy Richmond Park in HDR while I’m working on the gallery :)