Exposure Bracketing in Photography - How to Shoot and Merge HDR Images

Exposure bracketing is a common technique used in landscape photography to help capture scenes with very high dynamic range. When you must capture the bright sky in contrast with a dark foreground, bracketing may be the way to go.

Bracketing is simple. You pick the number of images your camera takes and the stops difference (think brighter or darker) between the photos. Then, your camera will fire off multiple photos, changing the shutter speed between images to over or underexpose each photo. Lastly, you can bring these images into most photo editing software and combine them using the HDR (high dynamic range) feature.

Depending on your camera, you may not need this technique. Some of the newer camera sensors can capture very high dynamic range in one shot. This is still a relatively easy technique for older or less expensive cameras to improve the dynamic range in your images!

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[CryptikzChannel]

Thank you!!! I accidentally put my camera in this mode and was so confused

[orionhunter]

Real estate photographer here. I always recommend trying each of the bracket settings with the same scene so you find what number of shots and what ev gives you the most data to work with.

My hdr settings are always at 5 shots 0.7 EV apart, they work great for my camera and get more useful information than 3 shots at 2.0 EV.

[lee_michae]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, your shorts are the best on YouTube. So useful.

[gioseisa]

I think this is the crispiest YT Short I’ve seen! What are your export settings??

[TechnicalGamingChannel]

It’s important to lock focus before shooting a bracket to ensure you don’t get artifacts from focus breathing caused by the camera slightly moving the plane of focus every time it auto focuses. Most of the time it doesn’t matter, but when it does you’ll regret not having locked everything down first.

[stavrosk.]

Short, concise and very useful. Great job.

[KimberlyB]

Wowza !!!! Is that a Sony ? I NEVER knew that existed ..
Tysm 🙌🏼

[sajidhanif]

Watch yesterday find your channel and your videos very helpful & different from others creator they usually don't tell these things.

Now i known how to take HDR photo.

[davidlacziko]

That's awesome! I didn't know that!🤩

[aniket]

I love your content brother, you've taught me lot, thank you so much❤

[Lookism_]

Yo when I saw that last image I was like W 🤩🤑 fs bouta learn this then hopefully teach other too

[JaketheMotorhead]

Nice! I couldn't get it to work properly till this short!

[VangaurdLeader]

What kind of camera do you use?
I’ve been looking at some Sony’s like the A6400 and A6500
Are they worth the money nowadays for a relatively beginner photographer?

[willthetrucker]

Good thing you were able to get that shot before the arches collapsed!

[alphacreatorsmedia]

That’s good for real estate photography

[simonchoo]

Hi is this function not applied for apsc ? Thks for replying 😊

[warmoaran]

My Samsung compact from 2006 has Auto Exposure bracketing.. it should be common knowledge at this point (especially if you actually look at the menus.)

[robertdoyle]

My old camera the Sony A77 did it in the camera for you so you didn’t have to do in in a computer I loved that camera it had a lot of cool feathers that I wish my Sony A7R V had in it

[McQueen]

😮 I like to use the old fashioned Nikon F4 with old-fashioned 35mm

[superpotoo]

I think I’ve been to this exact location before! It’s in Utah, right? What’s it called?