a) Location

Think about where you want to make your snapshots and what you want to photograph. For your first try I would recommend to choose a simple living room before you try an exterior shot. You should get ready with your cam and software. For this study I´ve choosen a simple possibility, that means, the final shot should record the environment and a 3d object.

b) White Balance

Before you start shooting your first images, you should make a white balance. How to do that, you should read in your manual of your camera. For that, use the white board.

c) Setup your tripod, the spheres and your camera

Put the camera on your tripod. On the same height and 1 meter in front of your camera, you position the linkage with the silver reflection sphere. Your camera shows direclty to the sphere (front view). Now put the camera 1 meter in front of your sphere, and watch out that you will get the same height as the sphere. You should see the whole sphere on your camera. For that, select the right zoom. Now get sure, that you can make the photo with your remote control, and that you have activated your automatic modus. So you can see if your sphere is 100% sharp and correct on your photograph.

If this photograph is perfekt, choose on your camera the best pixel solution. Now change your modus to manual, and choose for each photo a different shutter speed. The basics about photography you should know. If the shutter speed is longer, more light comes on the image, and so it will get much brighter. If the shutter speed is too long, you run in danger to get distortions on your image. To avoid that, you use the tripod. Of course, you have to see the shutterspeed dependent to the f-stops. The f-stop defines the radius of the hole to the lens.

For your HDR-Images it´s enough if you make 6 to 8 images. What does this mean for the praxis ? Make your first image, with a very long shutter speed, as instance 10 seconds. You will see, that the image get extrem bright. And you should know, that a good HDR Image has a bride range or even a high range of light information, that gets from bright to dark. So don´t get confused about that, it´s okay. Important are the different shutter speeds and there unit steps between. In the praxis I could see, that it is very good if you have 4 steps between your shutter speed range. As instance, 10 seconds for your first image, and the second shot you make with 4 seconds, and so on.

Take a look on the images which will show you excatly the values.

Wichtig sind nun die Zeitabstände, in der Du Deine Folgen fotografierst. In der Praxis hat sich gezeigt, dass Du sehr gute Ergebnisse bekommst, wenn Du die Verschlußzeit in Vierer-Schritten veränderst. Also 1. Bildaufnahme mit 10 Sekunden Verschlußzeit, 2. Bildaufnahme um 4 Verschlußzeiten Deiner Kamera kürzer. In unserem Falle waren es dann exakt 4 Sekunden. Hier die Aufstellung der Verschlusszeiten und die dazugehörigen Bildergebnisse.

	13mm F 4.5 1/1250		13mm F 4.5 1/80
	13mm F 4.5 1/500		13mm F 4.5 1/30
	13mm F 4.5 1/200
			13mm F 4.5 1/13