Secret techniques behind our HDR photography

"Realistic HDR" e-book review

Yes, we did it!

Our recent e-book, "Realistic HDR"  for Landscape and Architectural Photographers has been released:

HDR by Alex Koloskov:  www.realistichdrbook.com

This e-book was hightly anticipated and expected by many photographers.
We have created this book based on our own experience. All of our research has been done on the Internet using free sources such as photography forums and blogs. The rest has been learned by our own experimentation, a trial and error approach.

HDR by Alex Koloskov:  www.realistichdrbook.com 

Fact:  We were one of the first photography studios to use HDR techniques for commercial architectural photography in the Atlanta metro area.

A few things about HDR photography we believe in:

There isn’t a single-exposure HDR photograph. You can call it “HDR”,“Tonal Contrast” or “Tone Mapping”, but a single exposure image has nothing to do with HDR photography. Many people process RAW images with bright overexposed or dark underexposed areas through Photomatix and call them HDR; technically this still isn’t an HDR image by definition.

Realistic HDR book by Alex Kolsokov and Genia Larionova

We’ve tried to make this book as simple and effective as possible, soyou won’t find any theoretical information about the science behind HDR processing in this book.
There are many good online resources exists and we’veincluded some in our suggested for reading links at the end of this book. What we will show you is how we create our realistic style of

HDR by Alex Koloskov:  www.realistichdrbook.com

This e-book is for people who:

  • like bright, colorful, crisp, but realistic looking images;
  • want to learn how to avoid making blurry, ghost-filled, over-saturated HDR images;
  • are interested to learn how we do our HDR photos (G+ portfolio);
  • are looking for the practical application of HDR;
  • are wanting to start creating HDR photos the right away, without spending much time to learn the chemistry behind the process;
  • not only want to create good looking HDR images for the web, but also hi resolution images full of details ready for large prints;
  • are interested on how HDR can be used in commercial architectural and real estate photography.

What you will receive:

  1. 84 pages e-book in Adobe PDF format.
  2. Original RAW images which were used as an examples in the book.
  3. Layered PSD files of the processed images.
  4. 30 day no question asked money back guarantee.

What you will not receive:

  1. Access to a magic button “Make my image nice” :-)

HDR by Alex Koloskov:  www.realistichdrbook.com

Sounds interesting?

Go and take a look, may be this is exactly what you have been looking for: Buy The Book at RealisticHDRBook.com

Comments

A bit pricey for an 84 page e-book

Alex Koloskov
Pixiq Expert

Richard,
Stack of 500 white paper sheets cost about $8. I believe in quality v.s quantity:-)

Just out of interest, where are the "Original RAW images which were used as an examples in the book" and the "Layered PSD files of the processed images"? They aren't in the PDF download.

Alex Koloskov
Pixiq Expert

Paul,
They are: there are links in the end of PDF book, pointing to the files on our server. Source files weight about 800Mb, so it was no way to include them in e-book.

Got them, thanks! I missed the links and then had to deactivate Trust Manager in FoXit Pro to get the links to work. All good. Thank you.

Alex Koloskov
Pixiq Expert

Great!
if you have any question in a future, feel free to post them in "Discuss it" page on http://www.realistichdrbook.com/ , I am checking it much more often:-)
Also, if you decide to share your own HDR, there is a "Submit HDR" page, where you can post them. And if they will be good, you'll be featured in Showcase!

Thank you!

Tim

If nothing else, major kudos for setting the record straight about "single-shot HDR". That term makes me spit.

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