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I haven't done one with a slow shutter yet...I'll have to try that out this weekend to confirm.

I hadn't thought that maybe part of the sound is the shutter opening and closing. It sounded quite like a normal, full shutter actuation, but three of them. The slow shutter should let me hear it slowed down a bit to verify.

It would be cool if it does three. Heck, I wish we could have it adjustable to shoot from 2 to 10 frames, user-selectable! :)

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Like happiness, photography is often better created than pursued.
 
i like them also , but to confirm thsi is on a 550? And if so what were you using before the 550?
 
Thanks! That gallery of 13 images is all a550 in-camera HDR. I was with the a350 for about a year, but the noise in that drove me to the a550. I'm happy with it.
 
It is a gimmick ... nothing more and nothing less. A really usefull HDR function would have been if the sensor was read a couple of time before the end of the shutter opening e.g. a read out 1/250s and 1/60. - so in total the shutter speed is 1/60s. Now you have 1/60s and 1/250s plus processing, writting etc in between and all the chance that an object moved.

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Perhaps it is a gimmick, though I didn't buy the camera for that feature. So far -- in the 10 days that I've used it -- it has been a pretty good option for longer exposure shots over a second, where a simple RAW capture couldn't pick up the huge disparity in lighting. Many of my shots involve motion anyway, so I'm not concerned with movement as much. Plus, I don't see me using it for quick exposures, but it's there if I want it. But I applaud the purist in you, no doubt :)

Chris
 
KEITH-C said:
Very interesting application of in-camera HDR. It would be nice to know this came about by accident or the user worked out in advance that such shots might be possible.
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I wish I could say I had all this planned from the start, but that's not entirely true. The shot with me ghosting on the pier was the result of an accident. I was playing around with the HDR function for long exposures, not knowing what I would expect. My first attempts got screwed up -- trails of me and really you couldn't tell it was a person. So I lengthened the shutter to 2 secs (which I assumed was 4 secs. in the second HDR shot) and entered the frame quickly as the second exposure was going on and stood still at that spot. I was surprised at the final result ... happily :)
 
I'm in the process of writing some books ... but that seems to get pushed out more and more. The book I did publish is from 2006 based on Hartford, Connecticut ... my early work, if you will. As I look back, nothing special, but a start nonetheless.
 
alternatives other than the usual software base HDR? You seems to be a HDR expert and I am assuming you have good HDR shots to share and if yes, mind letting me know how much time did you spend generating it? Just wanting to know for reference since it was quite some time when I played with the 1st release of Photomatix and I didn't quite like the effort/time required. Maybe latest tools are different now and I haven't tried again. Any new software recommendation? Thanks.

For me, built-in HDR while not great, not bad either and saves me several steps in capturing and PP, less time in my PC and more time outside unless the wife will take out that extra time saved :).
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Like happiness, photography is often better created than pursued.
 
Very nice; I mean composition perspective. You have got an eye.

Ramin
 
you complained about the noise on the a350 .. agree. but were you doing hdr on the a350 or is it the 550 that has started that for you?
 
I like the shots very much. Thanks for sharing. I don't own the 550 but I suppose I could do a similar thing with the A700 and photomatix. Take a single long exposure shot in RAW and create a pseudo HDR by making three TIFF images from the RAW image and merging them in Photomatix.

George
 
Yes HDR can be achieved in software but it is very convenient to have it as an in-camera feature. Sony have been very clever in building in image alignment into the Jpeg processing algorithm which although not perfect ,when image components are moving , does seem to work quite well. The use of a tripod could mean that this function could be extended over more than two frames & maybe this will appear in future cameras in a more sophisticated mode.
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I stayed away from HDR because I didn't like the overporcessed look a lot of HDRs have -- unnatural blues, halos, etc. I'm also not very patient with post work, so I convinced myself HDR would require a lot of time in post, so I didn't attempt it. I was going to get the a550 regardless of the HDR feature, but one morning I was just trying it out and liked the results, and thought to apply to my longer exposure stuff and I liked the subtle differences of the HDR output. RAW is still my first choice, but I'll try auto HDR just to compare in each situation.
 
Hey Gil! Gimmick or not, whatever they call it, it does work, you're right!

Just to be clear, I am no HDR expert. To be honest, I just started shooting HDR with the a550. Like you, I don't like the time and effort that goes into post work HDR, so I shied away from it for a long time. The a550 came along and I tried auto HDR one morning and I liked it. So I'll keep experimenting with it along with RAW images. So I have no recommendations other than to try the HDR function along with shooting in RAW, which you already know, so my apologies of being no help in this regard ;)

Chris
 
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