I have taken a lot of pictures of stained glass all over Europe, but Sainte-Chapelle in Paris has the most amazing glass of all. This is a three-frame HDR image, but in retrospect I should have done five or even seven frames because of the extreme contrast. The more contrast in a scene, the larger number of bracketed frames you need in the HDR composite assuming your goal is to show detail throughout the image. You can see in this picture that some of the shadows are completely black, and ideally there should be detail there. I used a 14mm for this image with an aperture of f/2.8 and ISO of 400. Again in retrospect, I should have used f/5.6 or f/8. Wide open apertures let in a lot of light, but they typically aren't as sharp as closing the lens down a couple of f/stops.
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Feb 20, 2017, 12:40:12 AM
Jim - Hi Daniel,
I used the in-camera HDR feature, but then in post-processing I put the RAW images together for the final hi res image.
Feb 19, 2017, 10:27:26 PM
Daniel A Reynaud - Hi Jim, just curious to know if you used an in camera 3 shots HDR, or if you actually shot 3 different frames yourself and then processed them with Photoshop. Being Photoshop illiterate... I rely in the HDR function built in my Alpha 77mk II. :)