Take Picture Mark Made Easy

Take picture mark

hey everybody thanks for tuning in today in this video I'm going to show you how to make an HDR image with the Canon 5d Mark for in-camera no need for any extra software or hardware this is a really cool feature of the Canon 5d Mark 4 it's kind of like the HDR image option on say an iPhone whereby you have a little button you can tap and you take a picture and it takes a couple of different exposures smashes them all together and voila you got an HDR image right there same thing with the 5d Mark 4 you don't need your computer don't need any extra software it's all done in camera there's a few different settings and options that you can choose from we're gonna look at what those are today and by the time you're done watching this video hopefully you will be able to take an HDR image in camera with a 5d Mark 4 on your own without further ado let's get right to it first of all go to the menu and make sure that you've got your selector over here set to photo rather than video mode if you're in video mode you won't see some of these options HDR mode being one of them so if you don't see the HDR mode make sure that you're set to photo mode over here from here we'll go to the red camera menu page three all the way at the bottom you'll see an option that says HDR mode and right now it says disable HDR which means HDR isn't selected well tap that and then we've got five options to set the first option is to set the dynamic range and also basically turn on the HDR mode so I'll tap this and we've got then four options auto plus or minus 1 plus or minus 2 plus or minus 3 what this does is it tells the camera how wide of a bracket it will set for the three photos that's going to take which will eventually merge into the HDR image Auto will automatically choose how wide that bracket will be you can set it to one two or three so it will be one exposure value two or three outside of a normal exposure value so if you want to adjust that manually you can set one two or three or Auto letting camera choose what that bracketing range should be I typically set it to auto to let the camera choose what that will be in a given light environment that I'm in the next option is the effect option we tap that we'll see four options plus the natural now these art options what they do is they basically will adjust the brightness the saturation the tone of the photo based on a certain preset criteria I'm not going to go into detail on those right here but if you want post up a comment below and I'll be happy to answer questions you may have about that I typically leave this in natural mode so I'm going to select natural next option is the continuous HDR or one shot only this option decides whether all these settings here are going to go away and disappear after one shot or one photo or if it's going to stay in HDR mode indefinitely so if you set it to one shot only after take one photo it's going to revert back to non HDR photo shooting if you have it set to every shot it will stay in HDR mode indefinitely until you come back to this menu and disable HDR mode for right now I'm going to set it to one shot only the fourth option is the auto image align now here's the basic deal on this if you're using a handheld if you're taking a handheld photo you want to set this to enable if you're using a tripod you'll want to set it to disable what this does is if you're shooting handheld there might be a little bit more camera shake and it's going to auto align those images for you if you have it set to enable when you're using a tripod the camera assumes that there's not much camera shake if any going on so it doesn't need to align anything in its computer in the brains of the camera so it will just overlay those images to make the HDR so when you're shooting handheld enable on a tripod disable I'll just set it to disable for the moment or I'm sorry enable for the moment and then the last option is whether or not you want to save your source images or the three images that are used to create the final HDR image if you say all images is going to save the three images that it uses to create the final HDR image if you say HDR only it's only going to save the fourth and HDM are fine HDR final image I usually like to have it set to all images because then I can go back and see what the three exposure the bracketed exposure photos look like and I might use those for various purposes so I'll set that to all images from here we're all set and we can go ahead and exit the menu and exit the menu and now we're ready to shoot now right now right in front of me here I've just got a white wall with a painting on it so there's really not a whole lot going on here and the room is rather dim at this point in time in the day so when I shoot right now it's not going to be an exciting photo but in just a minute we'll go outside and actually shoot some HDR outside and you'll get a little bit better of a feel for this but let me show you what this is going to look like right here right now so I'm ready to shoot my HDR photo I'm going to compose and get everything set the way I want and then I'm just going to press the shutter button up here and you'll hear the camera take three photos so have a listen so you heard to take three photos you see the red light is on here it means it's thinking it's processing in just a second this will disappear and we'll see our resulting HDR image so if we press the play button here that's what our final HDR image looks like now if we use the scroll wheel and scroll back that was the overexposed or kind of high exposure value there is the low exposure value and there's the kind of middle value one so it's those three photos the middle below and the high that the camera combines to make the HDR image here so you can see this is not a very exciting image here let's go outside and see some real photos in real life all right here we are inside of Lightroom to compare what our HDR source images look like compared to the final image so I've got four images down here in the preview part of the window and up here we've got two images side-by-side to compare the image on the left is our final HDR image in the image currently on the right is the standard exposed image so you can see the standard image it's a little bit dark up in the corners here and the Sun is a little bit overblown but when you compare it to what our final image looks like we get a little bit more blue from the sky compared to the standard exposure that darkness in the corners and kind of on the side of the house here comes back into play so you can see the standard versus the finished HDR image here if we look at the other two images because remember each of these HDR photos has three images it's got the standard exposure the under and then the overexposed here's what the overexposed or I'm sorry underexposed looks like and the overexposed complied with this combined with the standard gives us the HDR now you can see on the right side of the screen that there's a little bit of a size difference or you see it looks like it kind of zooms in over here and that's because we had this set to align images so it had to do in camera a little bit of a lining of those images because each of these shots here we're all here held each of them is just slightly ever so slightly misaligned if you will and so it has to be aligning and it has to kind of crop them a little bit so that's image number one right there and here's image number two again on the left-hand side of the screen you'll see that reference image this is what our final image looks like with the HDR image all smashed together on the right-hand side this is our standard exposures so you can see the brick over here is a little bit darker than it is on our final image the tree the orange and yellow of the leaves are just a little bit less vibrant if you will then the the leaves over here same thing with the sky we get just a smidge more blue there then we have in our standard exposed image there so as we said before there's three images going in to make this final image over here so we've got our standard on the right-hand side now let's look at our underexposed obviously much more dark around the edges and the leaves are kind of a slightly different color there and our overexposed this is where we're gonna get in our final image in our HDR image the details for this dark stuff over here so obviously the tree is overblown here but over here in the corner kind of the dark areas this is where the detail is going to come out in our final image there and when we do the final smash together if you will you'll see that there's a slight change and it kind of zooms in a little bit again that's because in camera it had to align those images slightly because I did this I shot this image handheld so there was just a little bit of a lining needed between the three different exposures so there you have it boom Canon 5d Mark for HDR magic hope you liked the 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