Trey Ratcliff’s Complete HDR Tutorial: Countless Techniques Explored

There are over 10 hours of detailed video instruction in the course. It is aimed first at beginners but there is plenty of intermediate and advanced material too. I edit a ton of photos in every possible situation: Indoor, Outdoor, Sunrise, Sunset, Mid-Day, Mixed Indoor-Outdoor, Action, Movement, People, Nature & Landscape, Architectural, Travel, and more. There are many hours of high-production quality video as you watch me set up in these conditions, and then many more hours of screen capture, as you see me edit the photos you just saw captured in the field.

Even better, you get all of my RAW files! So you can follow along, step-by-step, and see exactly how I do each and every move.

What’s covered during the 10+ hours of instruction?

Thoughts on HDR and it’s role in photography
Setting up your Camera!
Basics of HDR
Light Levels, noticing HDR situations
More Lighting in HDR + Composition
Sunrise HDR + Noise Reduction
Movement + HDR
Composition + Shadows + Sky
Wide and narrow composition for landscapes
High Action Single RAW HDR
Path, Halo Prevention, Sky from multiple parts
Extreme HDR
Low Light HDR
Interior HDR with special texturizing tricks
Manual Panoramic HDR
Evening HDR with steadiness, reflections
Indoor/Outdoor HDR
Movement in delicate HDR situation
Extreme Noise Reduction in Photoshop
HDR Experimentation and violent recomposition

What do I need to get started?

All you really need is this video course. You can get demo versions of the software I use, so that shouldn’t be an issue. During the course I use Photomatix, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop and the Nik Collection.