OM System OM-1 - High Dynamic Range Photography Expert Guide 

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And again I say: never had a great tutorials like yours full of tips to a better photography

Thomas - again, great work. You express yourself exceedingly well. Your tutorials are informative and thorough. Thanks for sharing your expertise with everyone!

Thank you Thomas. Very well explained. You've really helped me understand my OM1.

Wieder einmal eine hervorragende Arbeit 👍🏻

Arguably, the best insights into HDR ever, many thanks...

Bought the PDF guide sheet and am also very happy to donate to show my appreciation for your work and study of this camera platform, to help us all get the best out of it, Thomas. To help us conquer high dynamic ranges, especially with the professional method using Affinity Photo (which I also use and recommend) is brilliant and very helpful. I consider what you are providing to be very worthwhile and valuable, particularly seeing how well Affinity Photo does the HDR tone-mapping, as you demonstrated. Although post-processing is to be avoided...I think artistically it can be justified when the software is doing just a 'mechanical' process ( not offering chances to intervene or adjust ) and, thus, we can preserve the purity of the concept of getting it 'right in camera' ; just using HDR and Tone Mapping to overcome a technical limitation of the hardware but still putting the onus on the photographer to get the images, in all other aspects 'correct' when the shutter button is pressed. The reference tables of dynamic range expansion mapped to HDR bracketing settings is , as you can expect , very useful because it gives a framework within which the guessing is much reduced and the science can be used instead. Please keep up this very useful research and explanation of this platform...it will benefit hundreds and possibly thousands of photographers. Thank you again, Thomas.... David from Glasgow

Thank you Thomas. You gave a perfect explanation as how to use HDR to extent the available dynamic range of the camera.

Thank you Thomas. This requires study, practice and then mulling over how I want to incorporate these options into my life. Then I can try to master a part of what you have explained so well. The challenge -apart from personal effort- is to find the need for HDR frequently enough to get in a lot of practice. I’ll just have to get outside at noon. :-)

thank you for another excellent video ... great work

Great video once again!

Typically I will listen to you, follow along and try stuff with you talking, camera in hand...NOT so much in this video! I took notes like I was back in school!! Great work, great points, great topic. I picked up a new strategy today for HDR capture. Thank you!

Wow! Amazing video as usual! Thank you so much! I've used hdr1 quite a bit, especially in previous olympus camera models... I don't use it as much with the om1 because the hand held hi-res already increases the dynamic range of the photos, and delivers one raw high resolution image... I have to compare exposure braketing with the hi-res in high contrasting scenes to see if the gains are significant in realistic terms. Again thank you so much for these wonderful videos.

Today is my second viewing of this video. After the first viewing I tried in-camera HDR with my OM-1 and it opened up a whole new world for me. I want to become very proficient with using the in-camera HDR1 and HDR2 settings for travel photography, but I also want to learn to do the manual tone mapping as you demonstrate here. Your videos have done, and are doing, more for my photography than any other source on the Internet. Thank you so much, Thomas.

HDR Quick Ref table: good job Thomas!

Thank you for your job!Really really helpful!👍🏻😃

thanks thomas from holland,very helpful,buying om1 tomorrow

Great detail! I've used HDR1 on the EM1 Mark ii and will explore it further on my new OM1.

Thank You very much that was very helpful. I learnt a lot.

Very interested in this topic. I'll try to make this session live! Live chat can be really engaging and fun. Looking forward to it.

Thank you very much. I’ll see what I can do with my OM D1 iii. This camera had a short life, because of the sale to OM Systems, which got the real improvements. The limited dynamic range bothers me a lot in my style of photography, so your help is very welcome.

Excellent guide.

I don't like HDR in general. I deeply appreciated Thomas' lessons about ND and High Resolution as the best way to NOT use HDR. And I obtained interesting results. But in some cases, multiple shots are required. Ad ex.: shots inside a room with windows

Большое спасибо вам за этот урок. Очень полезная информация👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

this was by far the best and most succinct discussion on how to maximize performance of the mirrorless cameras we love. And the reference sheet you designed is brilliant. My own methods arrived through the past couple of decades and earlier in film work when I frequently came up against scenes like sunsets over beaches. With the modern cameras I use the highlights and shadows indicators, setting the range in camera to 5 for shadows and 250 for highlights. Then I just adjust exposure until it looks like I'm about in the middle between the highs and lows, and test how many stops by dialing the EVF compensation two, three, or five stops each way to see what will compensate to cover the range properly and that's how I know what to set the HDR mode to cover that number of stops. Thanks for clarifying how to make the EVF/LCD display a better idea of the dynamic range. I'd never thought of that. I've made custom monochrome settings to get black and white the way I like and to see in the view finder what I want to happen. It just never occurred to me to expand the dynamic range of the view finder for handling high dynamic range scenes. You're really helping the community and some of these tips would apply to other mirrorless cameras I'd expect.

Really good advice and insteresting details on the built-in HDR modes and tone mapping capabilities integrated into the OM-!. For me all this informati,n will trigger off a much more thorough investigation of my own Sony camera.

Great work Thomas, excellent tutorial! Especially for my landscape photography with the OM-1, - which became my new and only system two months ago (!), - it is crucial to exploit the full dynamic range of the camera - if necessary with the aid of HDR. Your lecture is a great help to achieve the best possible results in every situation. Well done, chapeau!

excellent explanation. Thanks

Let me add my thanks for this. I have been shooting Olympus for years, although hardly any HDR, but this was the first time I have heard of that HDR Quick Ref guide, let alone hearing an explanation of how to use it. Makes me wonder what else I've missed.

Many thanks for another enlightening (ahem!) clip, Thomas. While I have already spent a little time on the HDR settings in my camera, the detail you gave me was quite new very valuable, as was the walk-through on using and setting HDR. Given that I tend to do more landscape photography than any other, this will serve me well, given that landscapes often have a wide dynamic range. Musing about the OM-1 and its feature set, I can't help but think that OMS/Olympus have applied a great deal of thought to make the camera as versatile and capable as possible. I wonder if other manufacturers have applied such a depth of thought to their products? I'm not sure if you're planning a look at the "digital teleconverter" setting, but I was astonished when I tried it - I was expecting to get a simple reduced-pixel-count image, but it produced a full 20MP image that seemed quite _sharp._

Thank you Thomas. I was not satisfied with my HDR results. I have purchased your excellent chart and will use your recommendations to improve my HDR photography.

I look forward to this. I have HDR settings set up for C4, but I have not used them yet. I am confident that your presentation will help me get it right the first time. Well, perhaps almost right after a bit of practice!

Compelling video as usual. I kept thinking of Adams's Zone System as I watched: establish the darkest and lightest values in the image, use a spot meter to establish an exposure setting, then adjust your development time to fit your negative density range to the range of the scene. The difference here is that bracketed exposures take the place of adjusting your development time.

I like your tie. Very good videos, by the way.

Thx for the detailed analysis and explanations. I would have loved to see real world photos in the examples and the concluding remarks.. When should one not use / use HDR in real world. Theory is good, actual field examples are better... thx, stavros

What a great contribution and how well explained.👏👏👏 A detail that surprised me in the OM5 (I don't know if it is the same in the OM1) is that when shooting in HDR mode and there is a moving subject, it will appear frozen in the final photo (both in the HDR JPG and in the file RAW, although they do not match).🤔

Very very interesting argument: it's what I would read about. Some months ago, during an Olympus meeting organized by "Micro 4/3 Italia" the speaker magnified Photomatix software to manage HDR pictures, even with subject in motion. I wait for Thomas' lesson with enthusiasm. Sergio from Milano

I’ve been having fun trying out HDR 1 and 2, and all of the other computational modes. Figuring out when to use each of them and just experimenting. That also made me go back to JPG after trying out raw. I felt like raw was a bit overkill for me.

Thanks!

¡Gracias!

Great video like usual! Would you recommend leaving those custom picture settings on all the time even outside shooting hdr? And do you feel there are any downsides to this? Thanks

You have the om-1, I have one, you have affinity photo, I have one 😄 I have used HDR1 or HDR2 in vacation, a bit of curve to correct HDR2 and the photo is perfect ! (using it from e-m5 II) thank you

You’re a master class

Well done Thomas, this is the most detailed HDR commentary I have seen

Thomas, thank you for the great explanation about HDR with Olympus, this was great, I use Olympus OMD EM1 MKIII, is the HDR Bracketing - Overview Table applies also to my camera? Thanks

You clearly enjoy the OM-1 - and I am considering it - Can you please tell me how the camera performs for noise levels when using high ISO whilst having to crop as we often have to do for wildlife? Thanks

I always wait for his new video, now a reference point for someone like me who has this fantastic camera for just over 2 weeks, I tried this function quickly and I noticed that it is very performing. Unfortunately I have to report 3 events of complete locking of the camera, when I bought it I did update but I had these problems, any suggestions? Thank you very much.

You're definitely smart, and you know the OM1 inside and out. Ill need ro sit down and watch these tutorials while holding my camera probably... a good 5x before i "kinda" understand. I normally listen to your videos as I drive at work so you can imagine im listening like "wtf is he saying!?". I mean my style of photography is RAW/Manual and sometimes I can pretend im the ultimate badass using the focus stacking option. I guess thats why I was drawn to the Em5-1 and look at Leica or Ricoh with more passion. I just want to aim the camera and take a photo. I have never used video either in the 4 olympus and OM1 cameras ive owned. Wish I could forfeit the video for more image stats lol

Thanks for the tutorial I want to know that if I shoot 7 photos with 2 EV showing 12+ dynamic range and took only required files during editing??

Excellence

Danke für das sehr interessante Video und die Erklärungen. Gleich mal ausprobiert und es funktioniert. Ändert sich bei der Fotografie in der Nacht dabei etwas? Oder ermittelt man die HDR Einstellung genau so? Gruß aus dem hohen Norden von Jens

Excellent video! But I'm wondering about the basis of your calculation of the dynamic range of the scene. 10-4 means 6 stops of expansion. Ok, but why 4? I'm not sure where that value came from.

If I want my model to be clear, with perfect sunset background. Should I then spot meter on her with s-af and then move the camera while holding shutter till I shoot? I like to keep the model and sun in each side of the frame.

Hello Thomas , one question, in what place do you put focus point for base exposure?

Still waiting for the one-stop combination of HighRes Shoot + Bracketing to get 80 MP with full dynamic range. Doing it manually is possible but error prone and slow. Obvious, the functionallity is there (also in the EM1 Series) but these parts of the software are not connected yet. Still hoping on a firmware update to deliver this functionallity.

Thanks Thomas, HDR in OM Workspace is posible?

What happen if the value of DR Scene in lower of 4 so the subtraction 0f 4 give as negative result?Also if the DR Expansion is odd number ,lets say and when we divide 5/2 the result is 2.5 which shutter speed we select?

The jpg is the hdr photo on om system right? On Panasonic g9 mark 1 you can choose color profile and sharpening etc for in~camera hdr. Sadly this option is not available on g9 mark 2.

Thanks for this video! Why don't you have the Telegram?

Just bought the pdf guide sheet.

Hallo, auch wenn mich das Thema weniger interessiert (fotografiere in erster Linie Wildlife), fand ich das Video doch äußerst lehrreich. Es ist immer wieder bemerkenswert was mit dieser Kamera möglich ist. Dass das Video sehr gut gemacht war, muss ich wohl nicht mehr erwähnen (hab`s doch gemacht🤣).

Did you even look at the left side of the camera? Why waste time on one more button? 🤔

Thanks!