The HDRI Handbook by Christian Bloch
March 26th, 2008
I’ve been reading Christian Bloch’s book, The HDRI Handbook, and finding it useful in learning HDR processing. Christian is a visual effects artist who works in Hollywood and has created effects for TV shows StarTrek, Invasion, Lost, as well as several movies. Christian’s book has a companion site at: www.hdrlabs.com/book. This site has some good information on HDR tools.
In addition to several good chapters on background and available software there are meaty chapters on HDR capture, Tone Mapping and HDR Image Processing.
Another great feature of this book is the amazing chapter on Shooting Panoramic HDR Images. This is one of the best descriptions of of shooting panoramas I’ve seen. It has extensive coverage of using PTgui Pro as well as other software.
Does anyone else have any favorite books on HDR?
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Chester Bullock March 26th, 2008 at 2:55 pm #
I read this book back in January and really found it to be worthwhile. Haven’t read any others, but am waiting for a firmware update to my Olympus E-510 to let me control EV bracketing better.
David Palermo March 26th, 2008 at 6:54 pm #
Yup, this is the best book out there on HDR right now.
David
Mike Martin March 26th, 2008 at 7:31 pm #
I found this book tooo technical and not enough practical. The best instruction I’ve seen is at:
http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_2.htm#whatisHDR
It is a bit dated now. Photomatix has changed and you don’t need separate sofware to manage RAW files.
Scott Pruett March 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am #
I agree w/ David.
Marek March 31st, 2008 at 9:40 pm #
I haven’t read any other books on HDR, but this one is definitely comprehensive.
Mike - it is a very technical book, but if you read it in sections then go back and refer to stuff you need later on it’s a bit easier to take in.
I learned a huge amount about HDR from the book and a large amount of the gaps in my knowledge have been filled. I now keep it as a reference book. I am confident about realistic HDR editing now and it doesn’t take very long any more either. It’s all about preparation when on-site.
Also, thanks to this website, as I found out about this book from here!