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Shooting HDR with a D-3200 is that possible?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 485380" data-attributes="member: 16749"><p>The D3200 doesn't have any intrinsic HDR capabilities. You need to manually produce a set of images at different exposure levels, and then use an external software program to produce an HDR image therefrom.</p><p></p><p> The software that I use for this purpose is <a href="http://research.microsoft.com:8082/en-us/downloads/da1b7a10-a0e5-4aef-bf7b-78ad5c575d0c/" target="_blank">Geodesic High-Dynamic-Range Photography Tool</a> (hereafter referred to as “GeoHDR” for short)—which is free from Microsoft's web site. It requires the 64-bit version of Windows 7 or higher.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> I will let you in on a bit of a secret.</p><p></p><p> Others will tell you that you need to take three separate pictures, at different exposure settings; and since the D3200 does not have any automated bracketing, you'll have to do it all manually. Some times, this may be true, anyway, depending on how much dynamic range there is in the scene that you're photographing.</p><p></p><p> The secret is that the D3200's sensor has a much wider dynamic range than can be reproduced in .JPG files, and that the “raw” .NEF files contain this full dynamic range. There may be some program out there that can produce a decent HDR image directly from a single .NEF file, but I haven't found it.</p><p></p><p> GeoHDR, unfortunately, won't read .NEF files. As far as I know, it will only accept .JPG files as input.</p><p></p><p> But in the camera, you can produce .JPG files at different exposure values, from a single .NEF file.</p><p></p><p> Make sure you have your <em>“Image Quality”</em> set to either <em>“NEF (RAW)”</em> or to <em>“NEF (RAW) + JPEG fine”</em>, so that when you take a picture, a .NEF file will be produced, containing the full dynamic range of the sensor.</p><p></p><p> After you've taken a picture that you want to HDR, go to the <em>“NEF (RAW) processing”</em> feature. Set the exposure compensation as low as you need to to make sure that no highlight details are lost. You can go down as much as two stops. Tweak other settings therein to your liking, and <em>EXE</em>cute that process.</p><p></p><p> Do the <em>“NEF (RAW) processing”</em> thing again, this time producing an image exposed somewhere in the middle.</p><p></p><p> Do it a third time, producing an image with the exposure boosted as high as you need to make sure that nothing is lost in the shadows.</p><p></p><p> Now, from having taken just one picture, you have the three .JPG files to feed into GeoHDR; containing, between them, more dynamic range than can be contained in one .JPG file.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 485380, member: 16749"] The D3200 doesn't have any intrinsic HDR capabilities. You need to manually produce a set of images at different exposure levels, and then use an external software program to produce an HDR image therefrom. The software that I use for this purpose is [url="http://research.microsoft.com:8082/en-us/downloads/da1b7a10-a0e5-4aef-bf7b-78ad5c575d0c/"]Geodesic High-Dynamic-Range Photography Tool[/url] (hereafter referred to as “GeoHDR” for short)—which is free from Microsoft's web site. It requires the 64-bit version of Windows 7 or higher. I will let you in on a bit of a secret. Others will tell you that you need to take three separate pictures, at different exposure settings; and since the D3200 does not have any automated bracketing, you'll have to do it all manually. Some times, this may be true, anyway, depending on how much dynamic range there is in the scene that you're photographing. The secret is that the D3200's sensor has a much wider dynamic range than can be reproduced in .JPG files, and that the “raw” .NEF files contain this full dynamic range. There may be some program out there that can produce a decent HDR image directly from a single .NEF file, but I haven't found it. GeoHDR, unfortunately, won't read .NEF files. As far as I know, it will only accept .JPG files as input. But in the camera, you can produce .JPG files at different exposure values, from a single .NEF file. Make sure you have your [I]“Image Quality”[/I] set to either [I]“NEF (RAW)”[/I] or to [I]“NEF (RAW) + JPEG fine”[/I], so that when you take a picture, a .NEF file will be produced, containing the full dynamic range of the sensor. After you've taken a picture that you want to HDR, go to the [I]“NEF (RAW) processing”[/I] feature. Set the exposure compensation as low as you need to to make sure that no highlight details are lost. You can go down as much as two stops. Tweak other settings therein to your liking, and [I]EXE[/I]cute that process. Do the [I]“NEF (RAW) processing”[/I] thing again, this time producing an image exposed somewhere in the middle. Do it a third time, producing an image with the exposure boosted as high as you need to make sure that nothing is lost in the shadows. Now, from having taken just one picture, you have the three .JPG files to feed into GeoHDR; containing, between them, more dynamic range than can be contained in one .JPG file. [/QUOTE]
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