The HDRI Handbook

The HDRI Handbook reveals the secrets behind High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI). Once Hollywood's best kept secret, this cutting-edge imaging technology is a method to digitally capture and edit all light in a scene. It represents a quantum leap in imaging technology, as revolutionary as the leap from black & white to color imaging. HDRI is the final step that places digital ahead of analog.

Included here is everything you need to build a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable you to become really creative with HDRI. This book is packed with practical hints and tips, software evaluations, workshops, and hands-on tutorials. A new breed of community-driven HDR software is included on the companion DVD, so that you can hit the ground running.

Whether you are a photographer, CG artist, compositor, or cinematographer, this book is sure to enlighten you. Topics include:

- Understanding the foundation of HDRI
- Tools for a High Dynamic Range Workflow
- How to capture HDR images: today and tomorrow
- Tone mapping for creating superior prints
- HDR image processing and compositing
- Shooting and stitching HDR panoramas
- Image-based lighting and CG rendering
- World premiere of Picturenaut and SmartIBL
- Creative uses and unconventional applications

Companion website at www.hdrlabs.com

Zielgruppe:

• - Photographers
• - Designers
• - 3D artists

Autor / Autorin:

Christian Bloch, Computer Graphic Artist bei EdenFX in Hollywood, zweimaliger Gewinner des begehrten Emmy Award in USA, gelernter Ingenieur für Medientechnik an der HWTK Leipzig.