"Your book looks like just what the doctor ordered."

• What is the Dynamic Range?
• What was an Exposure Value again?
• How do EV spans convert to that contrast ratio?
• Isn’t Dynamic Range some audio unit?
• Ah - bit depth! So 32 bit images are HDRI, right?
• Now tell me, what is HDRI then?

• Adaptation
• Nonlinear Response
• Locale Adaptation

• The chemistry that makes it work
• Where the chemistry is flawed
• How about analog post processing?
• What’s wrong with digital?

• The death of the Cathode Ray Tube
• On into a bright future

• The Good and the Bad
• And the Ugly
• Where is our saviour?
• OK, so does it make sense to shoot in RAW format?
• But does it make sense to archive my RAW pictures?

• How to file a film negative
• Unfortunately Uncompressed

• A big dumb space eater

• Whatever you want it to be
• Has all the features, but none of them reliable
• What it’s good for.

• Accidentally founding HDRI
• The magical 4th channel
• More range than we’d ever need.
• So, when should we use this format, then?

• Made to match human perception
• Using TIFF LogLuv in practice

• 16 is the new 32
• Compression and features

• The Story of ERI
• The Way of FJPEG
• The Future of JPEG-HDR

• Comparison Table
• Size matters!
• Conclusion

• Mac OSX Tiger
• HDRView
• EXRdisplay
• Jahplayer
• Adobe Bridge
• Irfanview
• XNView
• Comparison Table

• HDRShop
• Picturenaut
• Photosphere
• Photomatix
• FDR Tools
• Comparison Table

• Photoshop CS3
• Photogenics
• Artizen HDR
• Cinepaint
• Pixel
• Comparison Table
• Forgotten someone?

• After Effects
• Digital Fusion
• Combustion
• Shake
• Nuke

• The Problem: Getting a better minimum signal
• Time-to-Saturation
• Logarithmic CMOS Sensors
• Digital Pixel Sensor / HDRC
• Spatially Varying Exposure
• SuperCCD SR

• A word on analog
• What is in your backpack?
• Camera settings
• Shooting Brackets
• Autobracketing
• Handheld capture
• Tripod capture
• Tethered shooting
• Dealing with Ghosts

• What the camera response curve is about
• Does that really work from just looking at the final images?
• Gamma or self-calibration or predetermined curve, that is the question!
• Shooting a reference sequence
• HDR Shop: grandpa let’s you look at his camera curve
• Calibration today

• Aligning exposures
• Inspection time
• Isn’t it all the same?
• Batch me up, Photomatix
• Using RAW images instead

• Don’t throw it all away yet!
• Basic cleanup
• White balancing
• Perspective correction and framing
• Sharpening
• Selective Color Correction

• Back to normal

• Simple Exposure and Gamma
• Highlight Compression
• Picturenaut: Photoreceptor
• Photoshop: Equalize Histogram

• Photoshop: Local Adaptation
• Photomatix: Detail Enhancer
• FDRTools: Compressor
• ArtizenHDR: Lock06 / Fattal

• Manual Dodge and Burn in Photoshop

• True-tone mapping
• New impressionism
• Texture extraction

• Capturing more dynamic range
• Our personal road to HDR
• Four Sample Workflows
• Generating HDR images
• Tone Mapping

• Architecture Shots
• Night Shots
• Panorama Landscape
• Dramatized Tone Mapping
• Painterly Style

• Blocking light: day for night workshop
• Understanding the color picker
• Painting with light
• Color grading with Levels

• Motion Blur
• Glow and Bleeding

• Field Of View
• Yaw, Pitch and Roll

• Spherical Map / Latitude-Longitude / Equirectangular
• Cubic Map / Horizontal Cross / Vertical Cross
• Angular Map / Lightprobe
• Fun Projections
• Comparison Table

• Spherocam HDR
• Panoscan

• But that’s not really 360°, is it?
• Got balls?
• Ball on a stick

• Merge to HDR
• Unwrapping your balls
• Problem areas

• Aligning the layers
• Combine the good parts.
• Bake it down
• Getting rid of the pinching hole
• Wrapping it all up

Basic Premises:

• Sectors must overlap!
• Turn around the Nodal Point!
• Shoot consistent exposures!

• Camera
• Tripod
• Lens
• Fisheye lenses
• Panoramic heads

• First axis
• Second axis
• Fisheye lenses and the nodal point

• How many sectors do we need?
• The routine rule of thumb: Don't part anything!

• Camera Settings
• A) MDR workflow:
• B) HDR workflow:
• Now shoot as fast you can!

• What way to go?
• Get organized!

• Aligning the images
• What are those mysterious control points?
• Fixing vertical lines
• Fixing mismatched control points.
• Finishing the panorama
• Workflow alternatives

• Batch HDR merging
• Batch tone mapping with Picturenaut
• Stitching the tone mapped images with Hugin
• Misdealing the cards
• Some miscellaneous hints

• What’s that good for?
• Shooting fast like no other.
• Dewarp and be done.
• Rescuing a hurried shoot

• Comparison Table
• Which technique is the one is for you?

• Modern times

• Faking it all together
• Negative Lights
• Shadowmapping
• Textures and ramps

• Radiosity
• Photon-Tracing
• The basic premise of them all
• Handling the simulation
• Image Based Lighting: IBL

• The basic ingredients
• Where does the environment go?
• Eyeballing the camera
• Volunteers wanted
• What we really learned from this

• Why do my HDRI renderings turn out so dark?
• The root of the problem.
• A) Linear Workflow: Gamma out of LDR images!
• One step further
• B) Cheater’s Workflow: Gamma into HDR images!

• Keep your render buffers!
• Tweaking Reflections
• Ambient Occlusion - a pass like a poem
• Deeper and deeper
• Finishing touches

• Why are my HDRI renderings so noisy?
• Reflections
• Background
• Bigger backgrounds
• How to handle a ball
• Looking at the sun

• Introducing the one button solution
• A universal pipeline tool
• Creating and editing sIBL sets

• LightGen
• Better lights
• LightBitch
• Ye good old spinning light trick
• What else is cool about these light domes?

• Grabbing a light
• Pimp my light!

• Thanks!