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The iPad is really starting to get around — not only is it in the car, but now it’s also embedded in a kitchen cabinet.

Alan Daly custom mounted the “magical” Apple device inside his kitchen cabinet.

The headphone jack funnels sound into a MIDI system for audio output duties, and apps like the Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List App [iTunes link] turn Daly’s kitchen cabinet into a modern day bottomless recipe book. Daly plans to use the Apple Remote App [iTunes link] to tap into the home’s main music library once Apple updates it to support landscape mode.

Check out the video of the installation below and let us know what you think. Are you be interested in an iPad kitchen centerpiece? Where will we see Apple’s tablet pop up next?

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Class registration deadline is Thursday March 25th so don’t delay!

A friend of mine in California has been training people on how to build amazing websites for many years. It doesn’t matter if you are a rookie or have some background in graphics or web design, Christina takes you through the basics to advanced a little at a time over 10 weeks! Plus you get a demo website to mess around with.

She only offers her class in spring and fall and the deadline to register is this Thursday, March 25th.

This  is an online class but instructor led and recorded if you cannot make a weekly class. There are handout materials and guides and a demo website for you to test and practice. There are 8 modules to the course and a couple bonus weeks so the entire training takes place a couple hours a week over 10 weeks.

Christina has a conference call on Wednesday you can listen to by phone or computer. The details and more descriptions are here:

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Date: Wednesday March 24th
Time: 4:00pm Eastern/ 3:00pm Central/ 1:00pm Pacific
Duration: 60-70 minutes
Registration Details:

http://cyberinnovation.com/websiteworkshop_preview

Note you can listen on your computer, or the phone
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Seems a bit surreal but this weekend I disconnected our home telephone handsets. Recently we canceled service or disconnected our home phone number….. who would have predicted that? We’ve had this phone number for over 20 years.

I remember not long ago the long distance telephone price wars. Our monthly phone bills would range from $50-100 and the “Friends and Family” rate per minute was lower than other options.

Then we started getting free nationwide long distance with our mobile phones and now everyone in our family has a mobile phone! Now we pay 2-3 times what we used to pay but the phones are now personal to the individual.

Remember the days of calling a house to ask if someone was there. Or leaving a message hoping they’d get it and call back. Remember talking or hanging on the phone with a friend in school and really saying nothing but to hear your parents or siblings tell you to get off the phone! It was so cool when my parents got call waiting so you could talk on the phone and answer if someone else called!

Oh and remember the answering machine so people could leave a message when you were gone! Remember a family member erasing your message and not writing it down It was frustrating at the time but another memory of the past as we all have our own personal answering machine today and if you delete your own message it’s no one’s fault but your own!

In the past phones were for the family and connected to the household, today they are connected to the person and I’ll tell my grand kids about this someday. Heck I’m going to box up home phones and bring them out in another 10-20 years and share this story.

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This is an amazing idea:

A roll up laptop that you carry under your arm!

Check out the video here:

I don’t know if this is just conceptual or in process? Looks extremely detailed to be just an idea but who knows?

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I’m both a photographer and web designer so I use Lightroom, Photoshop CS4 and Bridge almost daily.

I love Photoshop but when it comes to photography, I think, hands down Lightroom is your best choice for importing, managing, editing and exporting your photos.
It doesn’t matter what type of digital camera you have.
It doesn’t matter what type of  computer you have.
It doesn’t matter if you print at home, at a retailer or upload online.

Maybe you want to build a book of photos or a website or export to Facebook, Picassa, Flickr or others? You can copyright and/or watermark and make your color, curves, sharpening adjustments inside of Lightroom without the complexity of Photoshop!

I’m sure I’ll hear from the super advance CS4 techies will say you can do more in CS4 but for 90% of the world Lightroom will cover everything you need! I only use CS4 for advanced photo editing or being creative with a poster/flyer or color blends.

RAW Rules!

As Rick Sammon says “RAW RULES” so always shoot RAW. Cameras are basically small computers. When you take a photo it’s taken in a RAW format. If your camera is set to JPG, the camera then adjusts/color corrects and compresses your image into a JPG format. This is why an advertised 10mb camera shoots 6-7mb images!

I have too much money and time invested in taking my photos so don’t let your camera convert and compress your images into a JPG! Set your camera to RAW format. Yes the images are larger but the results are so much better!

Don’t delete images on the camera

Another pet peeve of mine: I never make a decision to delete a photo from the LCD on the back of the camera. Sure I use the LCD to view the histogram but you can adjust exposure, white balance, levels, curves and more after you import to your computer so whey delete an image too early?  I feel too many people are spending too much time looking down at the LCD when you should be looking up for better photos! If you need to delete them later do it from your monitor!

My workflow in Lightroom works like this:

Before importing into Lightroom you have to setup Camera Calibration presets in LR to match your camera. I shoot Canon so there are camera calibration settings in the camera like “Faithful, Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral” and others. It doesn’t matter which one you use just make sure you match them up in Lightroom! This will improve your images and reduce your workflow time! The calibration presets for all major camera manufacturers are included in the RAW plugin included in LR. The problem is they aren’t applied automatically to the photos during import.

Create Camera Calibration Presets first

So the first step is to open Lightroom and go to the Develop Module and choose an image you have imported previously. In the right panel of LR go down to Camera Calibration and click next to profile and choose the first Camera Camera Calibration setting.

Next go to the left panel and click the “+” icon next to presets and name your preset to match the Camera Calibration profile you choose previously like “Camera Standard.” Be sure to uncheck all the boxes EXCEPT “Calibration” and click “Create.” You have now created a preset to apply to new photos when you import them. I generally have my camera in “Camera Standard” mode so when I import them I use that preset. You’ll find the colors and white balance will be more accurate and save you time in post processing!

Now do this again for all the Camera Calibration settings so you’ll have a preset for each.

Importing Photos

Now we are ready to import into Lightroom! Click back to the Library module and connect your camera or memory card to your USB cable. Some systems will automatically open Lightroom, others we need to choose “Import” in the lower right corner of the left panel in the Library Module

In the Import photos dialog box choose the Camera Calibration preset from above that we created.

I suggest you use one master catalog for keyword consistently and ease of finding photos. If your catalog gets too big you can export groups to external catalogs and then delete from the master catalog but I don’t suggest this! I know some people to export each year to a separate catalog which may work. I’ve also heard about wedding photographers who create a catalog for each wedding and this too makes sense but I’m an everyday photographer!

In the import dialog box I choose a folder and I do use a base folder for the current year like 2009. I put all the folders of images by date in that annual year folder and change this at the end of each year. The LR import then puts the images in a folder with the date taken like 2009-09-10 and this is fine for me. I’m not a big fan of naming folders, I search more by keywords and collections but this is your ultimate preference.

There’s so many options in Lightroom this is why it’s so popular but also why so many people are confused with which direction to go.

Under Information to Apply you choose your develop settings or preset you created earlier. If your camera is set to Camera Standard choose the matching preset here to save yourself a lot of time when you start to develop your images AND get the image exposure and white balance set like they were when you took them

Next choose your Metadata and if you haven’t created a setting yet be sure and do that. I don’t care if you are just getting started be sure you put your name and information in the photos so you get credit for the work you have done!

Next I put something in the keywords folder. Adding keywords is tedious but extremely important! So to lessen the work later at least put the location by city, state, etc. Don’t worry about using a date as that is already part of the photo data in the camera. Keywords are words you’ll search for these photos. I don’t like using “Bob’s birthday” as that is a description of the event. Rather use the keyword People>Bob, birthday as individual keywords. Once you import the photos you can keyword images individually or by groups later.

I leave file names as they are from the camera, I’ll change the file names later in my development process.

Click import and take a break to give Lightroom some time to import the photos and create the preview files.

Image Processing

So at this point your photos have been imported, the camera calibration is set, you have some keywords and now you have to go through the images and find the rejects. In the Library Module open the image in full view and use the right arrow key to look at the photo then click to the next photo and so on. If it’s a reject photo (out  of focus, nothing to salvage) use your left finger to press the “X” key and it will be grayed out and marked for delete later.

The goal here is SPEED. I like to get my brain focused on one process at a time and move through the group of images I’m working on a few times. So first pass look at them closely and get rid of any out of focus or useless photos.

Key wording your images

On the next pass, I go back to the first photo from this group and change my “brain” over to keywords and Facebook. I press G to go into grid mode in Library module. I then select images and Shift-Click a group of photos or Ctrl-click individual photos and then apply keywords. I think about who, what, where, when and why. I know this is time consuming but it pays off later. When I need to find a photo later or create a book of photos for a friends birthday party I can find them very easy!

Stars and Colors

As you go through your photos you may find some really good images. Some photos will just stand out. Great composition, colors a great smile or action shot. As I see the photos I give them a one star rating and it’s easy. Simply select the photo and press the number “1” on your keyboard. Later when I want to work on star photos I can filter all my photos and then give the best ones 2 stars and keep narrowing them down.

Don’t give your photos a 5 star right away, you have no way to narrow them down later!

I wasn’t sure what the color labels were intended for but one day I had an epiphany! This is how I can keep track of my images I will sell as stock, or Facebook images or the HDR images I’ve created. Confused? Read the next section

Facebook Photos

I have a number of friends on Facebook and I never post a photo to embarrass anyone but I do take a lot of photos at events. People love seeing pictures of themselves online and it’s a great way to promote yourself as a photographer!  To make this process simple I use the color ratings. So as I’m clicking photos to add keywords of friends I then press number  “9” and a blue rating is applied to the photo. Later I can create a filter and find these images and export directly to Facebook with a plugin from Jeffrey Friedl.

Stars are for my best photos and I add one star or press the 1 key for coming back later to make my star photos better! My first goal after each photo shoot is to move through all the images efficiently to remove the rejects and complete the corrections to then upload to my website, send to my client or ??

Develop Module

Next I move over to the develop module and go back to the first image. I press the J key to turn on the clipping mask and the image will show in red and blue which areas of the photo are over or under exposed.

I won’t be able to detail the image correction process here but now I change/adjust exposure, brightness, levels, curves and more. I crop and cut images down to the best!

I love using the Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation sliders!

Finally when all the photos are ready for export I highlight them all in the Library Module and press F2 to rename the files with a name keeping in mind keywords or SEO so people can find my images online easier.

Again I’m going over my workflow here and not a tutorial on how to edit photos in Lightroom!

Time to Export, Print, Go to Web

I now have my images renamed, with keywords, cropped, cut, corrected and now it’s time to export.

I export using the SmugMug Plugin from Jeffrey Friedl. He also has a Metadata Wrangler that allows me to include the Meta I want and remove what I don’t want. The image shows the most current list of plugins Jeffrey offers. His plugins are awesome!

If you don’t want to export to an online gallery and prefer to just have hi-res images you can export to your local hard drive. Next take the hi-res JPG files to put them  on a CD or DVD and give to your friends or clients.

Posting to your blog

Finally I pick one favorite image in the group I have shot. Next I export to a JPG file with the longest edge 300 pixels in length and quality set to 96dpi. This keeps the size of the image down so it loads fast and I can upload to my blog, write comments about the event and refer visitors to my SmugMug site to purchase images!

Examples: My Blog http://blog.bobfoto.com and my SmugMug site http://www.BobFoto.com

Summary

It’s taken years for me to get this far! I remember many people asking about workflow and it’s tough to write the detail needed to fully explain your workflow process. I also think other photographers don’t want to share their process, I’m not sure why? I will continue to improve and hone my workflow over time.

If you have any questions or comments post them here!

Are you looking for more detail? I’ve started writing a book and expanding the workflow process above with more details and expanded explanations. If you would be interested in buying a copy email Bob@INEVO.com and we’ll let you know when they are ready!

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Saturday morning I slept in (as much as I can anymore). When I got up and looked at my email there was an invite to join Google Voice!

I had been waiting for many weeks as I was not a Grand Central customer but heard great things about the service! Google purchased Grand Central over a year ago and went to work on upgrading and improving their voice services.

Use my Gmail account or my Google Apps Email Account?

The first thing you do is click the link in the email invitation from Google and you are taken to the Google Voice login. Here you are prompted to login with your existing Gmail account. First I wasn’t sure if I should use my free Gmail account or my Google Apps account? I decided to go ahead using Gmail and was happy when I found out Google Voice is not part of Google Apps yet. (Google Apps allows organizations to host their email and domains with Google and also get shared calendars, documents and more. So you have all the Gmail features but with a custom domain name). Had I used the Google Apps account I wouldn’t be able to see the Google Apps contact list which is my list of friends and family and phone numbers in sync with my iTouch and Blackberry!

Next I walked through the setup of my voice account and was sent the authorization code by email and logged in. The first time I logged into Google Voice I had to choose my phone number. This is the main reason you want a Google voice number! You want a phone number you can give to friends, family and clients so you don’t have to give our your mobile phones, office phones or home phones. Give them one Google Voice number and route the callers by who they are! Living in a small Midwest town I was concerned I wouldn’t be able to get a local area code prefix but was happy to find it was available. I suspect Google has phone numbers available in all parts of the US?

I searched for numerous phone number combos to mean something but found the first 4 digits (prefix and first number) were locked so I found the best, most memorable number and moved ahead.

Unlimited Custom Greetings for all your groups or contacts!

Next I recorded my first greeting. It was easy intuitive and walked me through each step. You can create unlimited greetings for work clients group, friends group, family group etc. You can have fun and create a greeting and assign it to an individual and say some crazy things!

Configure your Phone Devices

Next I was prompted to configure my mobile phone number. I entered my mobile phone number and then given a verification code. Google Voice called my number and I entered the code to verify I own the number and I was setup. You can then add a home phone, office phone or as many phones as you like.

Time for Testing

At this point the basic service was setup and I called my Google Voice number and it rang into my cell phone. The caller ID was passed through so I had no idea I was getting a call via Google Voice. Next I left a voice message and hung up. About a minute later my mobile phone had a text message with a transcribed copy of my voice mail! Not a notice to dial in and listen to the message but the actual voicemail spelled out!

No longer do you need multiple voice mail inboxes! Have everyone call your Google voice number and if you don’t answer it will take a message and store it online to listen to later and transcribe and send you an email! Amazing! Remember you can create unlimited greetings and assign them to different contacts or groups of contacts in my address book! I could create a custom greeting for my wife, kids or people from my office or ???

Website Call Me Widgets!

Next I found the “web widgets area” and created a “Call Me” widget. A widget is a few lines of code to create a web page gadget for your sidebar. I placed the first one on our web development site http://CyberInnovation.com and gave it a test. Now someone visiting your site can click the widget, enter their phone number, check a box to hide their call back number if they prefer and click connect. Google now calls you and the web site visitor and we are connected.

If I don’t answer they get my voice mail transcribed to text and sent to my phone. How beautiful!

The Big Picture summary!

Think about people/organizations who have multiple websites and multiple businesses. They can now can use Google Voice to create custom greetings on each website and aggregate them to one phone number!

Non-profit organizations whose phone numbers change as board members change will now be able to get a single phone number for the organization.

As people cancel their land lines and email their friends/family about their new mobile phone numbers, they can now send a single number out for a replacement and route by contacts!

We’ve known for years the world of technology and IP telephony would overtake the days of hard wire phones and land lines, but now we can see it happening right in front of us!

Any questions call us 319-775-0045 and give Google Voice a try!

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Recently I gave a presentation to our local photography club on how to shoot HDR Photography and inside the presentation was a section on the importance of using RAW image format. Not only is RAW important with HDR but RAW image format gives the photographer so much more control over their image color/exposure corrections.

View the presentation outline with some photos below or you can download a copy of the presentation in PDF format here: HDR Photography & RAW Presentation – Web

Download the resource sheet and links here: HDR Presentation – Resource Sheet

Bob Randklev

http://CyberInnovation.com

http://BobFoto.com

Bob@CyberInnovation.com

Today’s Presentation Goals

· Understanding HDR Photography

• Who, What, Where, When, Why

· Understanding RAW Image format

• Who, What, Where, When, Why

· Giving you the tools/ideas to go create HDR

What is HDR?

· High Dynamic Range = HDR (HDRI)

· Your eyes & brain can view more than the camera

· HDR is combining/ merging/blending multiple shots of the same scene into one final photo

· Take the best parts of each image to create a final image

When to take HDR?

· High contrast compositions

· Sunrise or sunset with shadows

· Mid-day shots!

· Architecture, landscapes, objects

· Items which generally don’t move

· Interior shots with sunlit windows

· Not for high motion shots

· Advanced HDR fixes with Photoshop

How to take HDR photos

· Tripod is almost a requirement!

· You have to take 3 or more photos of the same composition

o Under exposed, correct exposure, Over-Exposed

o Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights

· Understanding the histogram is required or

· You have to understand exposure bracketing

HDR Gear

· Digital SLR is almost a requirement

o Point/shoot or range finder cameras generally don’t have

o Manual Mode

o Histogram…. ????

o AEB bracketing (Auto Exposure Bracketing)…. ????

o RAW format…???

· Tripod and a cable/wireless shutter release

· (Optional) Adobe Lightroom

· Photomatix HDR software

· Computer with some horsepower (XP or Vista)

How I shoot HDR

· Set my camera in manual mode

· Lock my ISO (take off auto)

· Setup your tripod, camera & cable release

· Take first corrected exposure and look at histogram

Understanding Histograms

· Histogram is all of the pixels in the photo

· If the image is a perfect bell, little need for HDR

· Generally the left and right sides will crop off

· Next Step: “Roll shutter wheel” or take our shutter speed down one full stop

Shadows -Step down 1-3 stops

· Roll your wheel to change shutter down one stop

· Take another photo, look at the histogram

· Roll down another stop, look at the histogram

· Continue until trailing edge is in the mid tones of the histogram

· You now have all the images for the shadows now we do the same for highlights

Highlights – Step up 1-3 stops

· Roll wheel back to first exposure and then roll up one full stop and take a photo

· Look at the histogram

· If you took 3 shots under exposed you’ll need 3 shots over exposed

o The first shot is a balanced shot per the camera

· Compose the first image and don’t look at any others… look at the histogram!

Photo shoot summary

· Now have 3-7 photos over/under exposed

· Import them to a folder on your computer

· DO NOT crop cut or edit the images in any way!

· Install and start up Photomatix

· Lightroom users can select the images and right click to export to Photomatix

HDR via Bracketing

· Easier way of getting multiple images

· Results may be less but still a good way to start

· May be an option for point/shoot or range finder cameras

· Setup bracketing in your camera settings,

o Click the shutter 3-5 times

o Results are 3-5 images over/middle/under exposed

Single image HDR

Pros

· HDR from one image

· Create virtual copies of a RAW image

· Change exposure plus/minus 1-2 stops

· Merge images in Photomatix

Cons

· Not suggested

· Lower quality

· Original RAW image may not have details needed

· IF you have an old image may be your only option?

RAW format vs. jpg

· All cameras shoot RAW (proprietary format)

o From point-shoot to SLR’s

· Cameras are computers

o Cameras process, color correct and compress RAW images into JPG files

· Why a 10mb camera creates 5mb JPG’s

· JPG – 256 shades of gray

· 12 bit RAW – 4,096 shades

· 14 bit RAW – 16,384 shades

RAW RULES!

Why would you let your camera do that?

· I prefer to see my images RAW and then AFTER my corrections convert to JPG

· I’ve spent a lot of $$ on my gear, time to take the photo, setup, software that I’m not going to let my camera compress and process my photos!

· I have RAW images from years ago that I thought were great but now with what I’ve learned in Photoshop I can go back and make them better!

Objections to RAW

· RAW images are bigger so you need bigger:

o Memory cards in the camera

o Bigger hard drives in your computer

o Faster USB 2.0 to transfer

o More computer memory to load

· Consumer – Prosumer – Professional

o Your gear, computer, cameras must match

“RAW creates an extra step” I don’t know where the extra step is?

· Take a photo

· Import from memory card to computer

· Manage in Lightroom, Photoshop or Picasa

· Crop/edit/color correct

· Export to printer, web, Facebook, Twitter etc.

The extra step must have something to do with multiple programs out of the camera box?

Adobe DNG format

· DNG stand for Digital Negative

· Adobe standard being adopted over the past few years

· RAW format from Canon, Nikon, Leica and others is proprietary

· DNG is universal to all

· Convert RAW to DNG and save around 25% disk space

Questions on RAW?

First photo

· First
“Center Exposure Shot”

· “Balanced Exposure”

1 stop under ….. 2 stops under

1 stop over……. 2 stops over

Lightroom users

· From within Lightroom choose the first image then shift-click the last image to choose the group

· Right click and export to Photomatix

· This automates the create HDR process and takes you right to tone mapping

Next choose your settings

· Generate HDR

· Go directly to Tone Mapping

· Align Images

· Auto re-import

· Stack

· Name

· 16 bit – TIFF

HDR image will look rough!

Tone Mapped image

Tone Adjustments in Photomatix

· I change very little in Photomatix

· Use Photoshop for levels/color correction

· I suggest you don’t change anything at first to test and experiment

· To the right is the softer more “life” like HDR

· To the left is more “grunge” like HDR

· I make my levels/curves adjustments in Photoshop

Creating the HDR in Photomatix

1. Open Photomatix

2. Click generate HDR

3. Choose the 3-7 RAW or JPG images we took previously

4. Merges best pixels together to create RAW HDR

5. Won’t look too good yet!

6. Save the HDR file but it’s big!

7. Try different tone mapping from here!

Photomatix – Stand Alone

Choose file

1. Browse to choose files

2. RAW or JPG

Set your options

Final Image

· After image processing is complete you can crop/cut, color correct etc..

· Advanced editing in Photoshop:

o Replace fluffy sky with single layer

o Replace moving flag in wind

o Replace water layer

Final Images

Summary of HDR Process

1. Shoot 3-7 images 1 -2 stops apart

2. Tripod mounted (no movement)

3. RAW format

4. Import into Lightroom / Photoshop

5. Highlight images/export to Photomatix

6. Create HDR and save as TIFF back in LR

7. Stack all your images together in LR

8. Advanced editing in LR or Photoshop

HDR Resources Photography Resource Links:

Photomatix HDR Software: $99 (15% off link below)
Purchase HDR Software here: http://bit.ly/lapc15 enter bobfoto15 to get 15% discount
Trial Download: http://bit.ly/lapc-demo try HDR software for free and purchase later
Adobe Lightroom: $299 Photoshop Elements: $89

http://Adobe.com
NAPP – National Association of Photoshop Professionals – $120 annually
http://bit.ly/CyberNAPP
Adobe Photoshop CS4: $99 downloads only:
www.easy-software-store.com
Online Photography and software training: $25 per month
http://Lynda.com
Resources on High Dynamic Range photography
http://www.hdrsoft.com/resources/index.html

› References
FAQ on HDR images for photography
List of Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) settings by camera model.
› Online articles and tutorials
HDR and Tonemapping: Series of articles on HDR imaging techniques for photographers.  HDR Tutorial from artist Trey Ratcliff.
Beginner’s Guide to HDR
RAW HDR Processing: Using HDR techniques with a single RAW file (note: for most scenes, it is still highly recommended to take more than one exposure).
Photomatix Pro tutorial by Ferrell McCollough, author of the “Complete guide to High Dynamic Range digital photography” book.
How to create ‘High Dynamic Range’ images using Photomatix by Pete Carr.
Tone Mapping in Photomatix and other HDR tutorials.
High Dynamic Range digital photography: Well documented article published in the Royal Photographic Society Journal, November 2006.
HDR Landscape Photography Tutorial: very comprehensive article covering both theoretical and practical aspects of HDR photography.
› DVD/Video
HDR Mastery: Ben Willmore’s online class made into a DVD, showing step-by-step how to master HDR imaging.
HDR and Photoshop: Colin Smith’s guide to the world of HDR – 2 1/2 hours video of HDR and Photoshop CS3 Training.
HDR Photography Made Easy: Tony Sweet shows all the steps in capturing and processing HDR images.
› Books
Complete guide to High Dynamic Range digital photography by Ferrell McCollough: beautifully illustrated and practically oriented guide, including many technical advices you will not find anywhere else.
Mastering HDR Photography by Michael Freeman: well documented and researched book, covering essential elements of HDR and tonemapping, illustrating theory with practical examples, and including case studies.
The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists by Christian Bloch.
› Equipment
Promote Control: advanced bracketing control for DSLRs. Particularly useful for HDR time-lapse and for cameras that have limited bracketing options.
› Mailing list
HDR-photo list: discussions on High Dynamic Range photography, from capture of HDR scenes, to processing, display and tone mapping of HDR images.
HDR Software Yahoo Group: group designed to help photographers and graphic designers understand and either share their knowledge or gain knowledge from others in the use HDR Software

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