Black and White HDR Video Appears like An Artist’s Sketches Dropped at Life [Video]

Of the three HDR videos we’ve seen recently, here is some of the unusual. Several hundred photos were taken in black and white, and batch-processed together to create something you may almost see in an e-ink graphic novel.

Photographer Andy used a Sony a700 DSLR with a Sigma 10-20 lens and a black and white ND10 stop filter to capture the numerous hundreds of photos of a similar scene, that have been then put through Photomatix to create that HDR look that’s so popular nowadays.

To take 70 seconds of video, he normally takes around 700 photos using a Hahnel Giga T wireless remote, which allows him to installed exposures and other changes.

Describing his post-production method, Andy says:

” I take advantage of Photomatix batch processing to combine 2 shots to create the HDR, in theory this shouldn’t work as they’re an analogous exposure and offer no difference. I change the HDR settings and run a test shot through to determine what it seems like, changing settings to change the strength and colour of the HDR. After I’m happy I let it run with my pc it may take in to 30mins but can vary massively reckoning on size and number of shots.

Finally once all of the shots are processed I import them into quicktime using open image sequence, and then export the video with HD quality settings.”

He’s shot some amazing HDR photos and video around Wales, but my favorite should be the single of the road in Cardiff, below. [ Andyathlon via Photography Bay ]

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