The HDRI Handbook 2.0: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists

The HDRI Handbook 2.0: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists
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Real estate and landscape photographers have adopted it as part of their regular workflow, it has become one of the hottest trends for ambitious amateurs and creative professionals alike, and the modern movie industry would be completely dysfunctional without it.Now The HDRI Handbook 2.0 redefines its own gold standard. Beginners will get a methodically solid introduction and advanced readers will be able to refine their technique to perfection.Topics include:- Understanding the foundation of HDRI- HDR softw
The deinitive book on HDRI. This is possibly the best book on digital photography that I have read to date. It is a technical book but not one that is obtuse. The first chapter gives a well crafted description of the limitations of digital cameras, sensors and the output (LDR images). From there a thorough discussion of the HDRI process with a descrption of most if not all the current HDRI software. There where hints here which improved my source images immediately. Merging a set of images into an HDR image is only the first st. THE essential guide to HDRI. This is not a new edition, but an entirely new book. Reflecting the latest information available as well as the author's even greater mastery of the subject, this has become the most informative guide I've ever seen to HDRI, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It's unbelievably meticulous in walking the reader through arcane techniques in Photoshop; the trial-and-error time I avoided in my next few images alone will more than pay for the book.It's also got a lot of useful information ab. Steady development that makes the book user friendly Clint Aust Centre Up until this book I had been trying to shoot HDR shots and found that my images were uninspiring. I used the book as a training program and steadily worked through the chapters and slowly my shots improved. The handbook lacks the razzmatazz of other HDR books that I purchased but in the end this is the one that served my need to learn the basics well before moving on to the sizzle. I am sure that a more experienced photographer could skip a chapter or two and still get good results. Some books that
His work has been rewarded with an Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Visual Effects Society Award.Bloch also holds an engineer's degree in multimedia technology. He lives and works in Hollywood, California. The HDRI Handbook was the successor to Bloch's diploma thesis, rewritten from the ground u
Years of research went into his diploma thesis about HDRI, which was honored in 2003 with the achievement award of the University of Applied Sciences Leipzig. His work has been rewarded with an Emmy Award as well as a nomination for the Visual Effects Society Award.Bloch also holds an engineer's degree in multimedia technology. He lives and works in Hollywood, California. About the AuthorChristian Bloch is a visual effects artist by trade and a photographer by passion. AntoXIII, from ParisProfessor Kirt Witte from the Sav