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Hi,

With the goal of applying the "Merge to HDR" function in Photoshop CS2,
I'm confused about how to shoot subject matter containing motion, i.e.
birds flying, water moving, etc.

I thought that in order to properly use HDR that you have to bracket
the subject matter several different times, so obviously the camera
should be on a tripod or held steady. So how do these HDR geniuses use
this cool HDR feature when their original photos can't possibly be
identical when aligned in the HDR feature?

Thanks in advance for any info.

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> Hi,
>
> With the goal of applying the "Merge to HDR" function in
> Photoshop CS2, I'm confused about how to shoot subject
> matter containing motion, i.e. birds flying, water moving, etc.

It only works easy with stationary subjects.

However, if there is a lot of motion involved, you could take multiple
images at each exposure time and blend them into 'stationary' images.
If there is not much light, you could also use looong exposure times,
as they will blur any significant motion.

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Bart

"Bart van der Wolf" <> wrote in message
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One more thing. If the software is programmed as it should, it may
already do a decent job in comparing and blending features between
exposure times. That would be facilitated by relatively small
differences between the various exposure times. Photoshop IMHO seems
to need some more work, before it's there.

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Bart