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Off the leash: how to get more freedom with wireless tethering

Shooting tethered no longer means being confined to a set radius. With the emergence of wireless tethering, both studio and on-location photographers can now be closer to the action while maintaining a smooth workflow and close collaboration with clients and colleagues. What is Tethered Shooting? Shooting tethered is simply shooting with your camera connected to your computer so that the images taken are quickly imported into the editing software, where they are displayed in real-time. While shooting tethered, the photographer can change exposure, trigger, and compose through LiveView. This provides an environment for the photographer, a creative team, the subject, or the client to have great control over the output by seeing the images on a large screen and adjusting the shoot parameters on the fly. Many photographers work with tethered shooting as it also allows them to instantly organize their images and apply styles or sets of adjustments to better show a client a closer-to-finished result. Traditional tethering is done via USB cable between the camera and computer, and as a good quality cable …

Using HDR for architectural photography

While blending or merging several exposures into one final High Dynamic Range (HDR) image remains a popular creative option for landscape photographers over the years, its use in architectural and commercial shoots has some big benefits that are unique to the challenges of shooting these genres. In many scenarios, especially outdoors, photographers can normally rely on graduated filters to balance a scene by blocking large parts of the frame with a neutral density layer – evening up the brightness from the shadows to the highlights. But while this works well on large, sweeping horizons and foregrounds (i.e., landscape shooting), when it comes to making that process work for odd-shaped buildings and structures with various hotspots and dark areas, we’re often unable to use the same approach. And where using a filter isn’t an option, or where the sheer amount of “fill light” you’d need to balance the scene becomes prohibitive, that’s where Capture One’s HDR Merge function can now deliver the results you need. How It’s Used HDR Merge relies on you capturing two or …

HDR 101: Interior

How to Capture an Interior Space and All Its Charm by Christophe Bénard Despite the ongoing effort from camera manufacturers to increase the dynamic range of digital camera sensors, capturing the full range of tonal values in a scene remains a critical challenge for most photographers. But what is dynamic range exactly? In photography, dynamic range refers to a camera sensor’s ability to record details  both  in highlight and shadow areas. In other words,  dynamic range marks  the difference between the darkest and lightest tones in an image. The best sensor on the planet,  which is  the human eye  has an astonishing 21-stop dynamic range while the best cameras  available  today  can only  achieve approximately 15 stops. In order to broaden the range of contrast in a single image while maintaining details in both highlights and shadows, digital photographers, for years, have  relied  on a  post-processing technique called high dynamic range merging, also known as  HDR.  HDR  consists of digitally combining several images taken at different exposure levels by varying the shutter speed. Unfortunately, over the years …