How do I takie HDR photos on a Nikon d80?

[Fatandre]

How do I takie HDR photos on a Nikon d80? Need some help with that

[motocaddy]

my eyes hurt from the mention of HDR.

[PDubbs20AE]

This can be done in a number of ways. I could just be a douche and tell you to google it because it is easy enough to find. I won't though.

Method one.

Mount the D80 on a tripod. You really want to do this, like really really.
Make sure your camera isn't in Auto mode, set it to P,S,A or M. I prefer M, but any of these will work just fine.
Take a picture of your subject.
Now change the exposure setting of your camera from 0 (this is what it should be on) and bring it up to 2.
Take the same picture with the exposure changed.
Change the exposure to -2.
Take the same image again with the exposure changed.

You now have three images. Go into your preferred editing software (I use Photoshop to edit images, but for HDR I tend to go with Photomatix Pro 3) and look for a Merge to HDR option.

Select the three photos of the same subject with the differing exposures and generate the HDR image. Voila, you are done.

Method Two.

Find the bracketing mode on your camera. In the menus somewhere you should be able to set the bracketing feature to a set exposure difference.
Essentially if bracketing mode is enabled, you usually will take one picture as a meter, then one underexposed and then one overexposed.
Take these three images and follow the above method in software.



Personally I don't like HDR stuff. Usually people just grab lots of images with all sorts of exposures and just blow the look of the subject out of proportion.

What I do like is having ADR (Adaptive Dynamic Range) on my D7000. All Nikon second generation DSLRs (the D80 is 1st gen) have this and it is called active D-lighting. This produces vivid color saturated vibrant images that I love for landscapes and the like.

Hope this helped.