What is HDR Video An Overview Of High Dynamic Range Video. I have a friend who is deeply into photography. So one day he starts asking me about HDR High dynamic range video. I frankly am at a loss having only a passing acquaintance with photography in general its one of those hobbies I would like to do, but havent the time or money to be serious. So I started reading up on it. Then I found out that you can do HDR video and I thought well isnt that something. Actually, there might have been some form of vulgarity in my thoughts, which I will spare you from. HDR, high dynamic range imaging, is a set of techniques that allow for some pretty fantastic images. When I mean fantastic I mean both in the wow factor as well as in unrealistic because it takes a series of photos, and combined them into something the human wouldnt normally see. Of course if something like this can be accomplished with digital images, it was only a matter of time before it would be applied to video. 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Imagine taking the coolest pieces of an overexposed image and an underexposed image or a series of them and then weaving them together into something while still the same subject, a totally different result. On the Wikipedia page for HDR you can see a 3 and 4 image result. In speaking with my friend, he stated that he uses 5 7 images and his camera can put them all together automatically. Essentially it all depends on the light intensity and has been around since 1. Since then it has been evolving and is now available in some mid to high range digital SLR cameras. Dynamic range is measured in EV, exposure value, between differences in the brightest and darkest areas of a photograph. An EV unit is a doubling of the amount of light coming from something. Theres a whole lot of math behind it and its all explained elsewhere so I wont rehash that. The sun setting from Jested Mountain, Czech Republic by Petr Dohnal. Aside from looking different, HDR images store a lot of extra information about the amount of light reflecting, luminance, of objects in the photo. Usually all of those values arent able to be shown on a standard computer monitor or photographic paper. Now you know what that Merge to HDR function is in your Photoshop menu if youve got CS2 or higher. The two images on the right are by that friend of mine I mentioned. Theyre used with his permission to show you some of the capabilities of HDR. He generally uses 5 7 exposures if I remember correctly and bracketing see Wiki page. Theyre pretty spiffy Id say. Hey Petr, made ya famous Well, sort of. How Does HDR Apply To Video Well, at present it doesnt quite yet. But if you read my Reel weekend article and saw the super cool dual lens 3. D camcorder, you know that it could rapidly be applied to video. In fact, thanks to a group of clever individuals, it has. Soviet Montage Productions, reported by Engadget, used two Canon EOS 5. D Mark II DSLRs and a beam splitter so that each camera saw the exact same image from the exact same angle as opposed to 3. D video where you need that offset of the cameras to get the depth. Im trying to get a hold of those guys for an interview about their video and technique. I dont know that this is the first HDR video but it might be the first made in this fashion see end for others. Essentially, from what can be gathered, the two cameras were set up differently. One was underexposed while the other was overexposed and both were pointed at the same subject matter. Now that would generally cause a visual offset, hence the beam splitter which allowed both lenses to see the exact same image. Its pretty fancy stuff and any sort of digital video camera thats going to do this would either have to be set up to take 6. I imagine or have a similar setup to the Soviet Montage one where it would have two separate imaging processing units that feed off of the same image. Pretty Little Liars Season 5 Episode 8 Free. My setup would probably create some funky ghosting effects so there doesnt seem to be any way to do it without two lenses. The Future Is HDR Video In 3. D Since Im in a prognosticating mood, I thought I would extrapolate this out to the future and include the current hot trend in multimedia entertainment, 3. D. Since 3. D is using two lenses already, to get the 3. D offset, you would then have to have four lenses for an HDR 3. D setup unless you get the double quick underover exposure I talked about before. So you would then have left under and over exposures and right under and over exposures and that would give you a massively cool hyper realistic HDR 3. D video. Now, both the left and the right would have to have beam splitters so that the underover exposure processing units got the exact same information. Whew That sounds like a beast of a camera. But really, I cant wait for someone to build one so we can see what HDR 3. D looks like. Its gonna be frickin awesome I bet. Thats A Wrap Youll notice, I called it hyper realistic. And I mean that in the more than realistic sense as, to my eyes anyway, HDR images look doctored or unnatural. Now I know people say that HDR is meant to view images the way the scenes really were, but I just dont see it that way. Our eyes cant do over and under exposure at the same time so I dont truly believe that we see in an HDR range. In fact, most digital cameras dumb down the visual information to a human eye level. So that means, to me anyway, that standard digital cameras, with no special or post processing, are creating images like we see the world. HDR is just a really cool way for us to see things we see every day. It all has a sort of fantasy feel to it when I view images and that video, for me anyway. Perhaps my view of the world is just tinted by other things. After writing this article, I found the video below as well, it was published 5 months ago it seems by Matthew Gorveatte. Theres no information on how he did it. It only mentions his new HDR HD video camera. It looks more like some sort of trick than real HDR but again, its just my opinion.