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The decisive moment – Banish the bracketing blues with HDR from video with HDRinstant
Blog post — Events, Trips and Activities
September 2021
Press release: The decisive moment – Banish the bracketing blues with HDR from video with HDRinstant
Breakthrough solution from HDRinstant creates effortless HDR stills from video files
22th of September, 2021 – HDR has become an essential tool for photographers seeking to capture exposures in challenging lighting but it’s not always a practical technique in the real world. Effectively bracketing shots to avoid issues like ghosting requires a tripod, and even the best technique can be frustrated by movement: People, clouds or trees in the frame can all present near impossible barriers to success – and you can forget fast-moving subjects! Now, a new tool banishes the bracketing blues by taking a radically different approach to HDR. Using breakthrough technology, HDRinstant allows for high dynamic range images to be captured from high resolution videos, stacking frames extracted from video to produce noise free images with outstanding dynamic range. Capturing the decisive moment has never been so effortless.
HDRinstant from HDRlog is the brainchild of Dr Jacques Joffre. As one of the co-founders of HDR innovators HDRsoft, the company behind Photomatix, Jacques Joffre is one of the pioneers of HDR photography. In 2012, he developed and patented a new HDR technology using video, founding HDRlog and developed HDRinstant over the past nine years. The launch of HDRinstant version 4, which is available as a standalone application and Adobe Lightroom Plugin for Windows and Mac, is the first mainstream release. It features a sleek new user interface for effortless ease of use, increased performance thanks to GPU support and a broad range of highly effective tone-mapping algorithms and presets for full creative control.
Breakthrough solution from HDRinstant creates effortless HDR stills from video files
22th of September, 2021 – HDR has become an essential tool for photographers seeking to capture exposures in challenging lighting but it’s not always a practical technique in the real world. Effectively bracketing shots to avoid issues like ghosting requires a tripod, and even the best technique can be frustrated by movement: People, clouds or trees in the frame can all present near impossible barriers to success – and you can forget fast-moving subjects! Now, a new tool banishes the bracketing blues by taking a radically different approach to HDR. Using breakthrough technology, HDRinstant allows for high dynamic range images to be captured from high resolution videos, stacking frames extracted from video to produce noise free images with outstanding dynamic range. Capturing the decisive moment has never been so effortless.
HDRinstant from HDRlog is the brainchild of Dr Jacques Joffre. As one of the co-founders of HDR innovators HDRsoft, the company behind Photomatix, Jacques Joffre is one of the pioneers of HDR photography. In 2012, he developed and patented a new HDR technology using video, founding HDRlog and developed HDRinstant over the past nine years. The launch of HDRinstant version 4, which is available as a standalone application and Adobe Lightroom Plugin for Windows and Mac, is the first mainstream release. It features a sleek new user interface for effortless ease of use, increased performance thanks to GPU support and a broad range of highly effective tone-mapping algorithms and presets for full creative control.
Don’t bracket for HDR – shoot video!
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Don’t bracket for HDR – shoot video!
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An innovative stacking image technology
Unlike traditional HDR, which requires multiple different exposures of darker and brighter areas to effectively capture the full dynamic range of a scene, HDRinstant uses multiple frames of video, to create a HDR from equally exposed images, which are stacked together to increase the dynamic range artificially but without noise. Thanks to powerful “anti-ghosting” capabilities, it’s not necessary to film using a tripod – camera shake is compensated for – and even scenes with movement can be used.
An innovative stacking image technology
Unlike traditional HDR, which requires multiple different exposures of darker and brighter areas to effectively capture the full dynamic range of a scene, HDRinstant uses multiple frames of video, to create a HDR from equally exposed images, which are stacked together to increase the dynamic range artificially but without noise. Thanks to powerful “anti-ghosting” capabilities, it’s not necessary to film using a tripod – camera shake is compensated for – and even scenes with movement can be used.
Freeze the action or dreamy long exposures? It’s up to you
Freeze the action or dreamy long exposures? It’s up to you
Professional control and effortless ease of use
HDRinstant 4 also introduces the ability to view the metadata of video files, while a new histogram feature provides at-a-glance understanding of exposure. For computers with a dedicated GPU, it is possible for users to select this more powerful processing option to ensure faster results. Similarly, users can select how many frames to use to balance processing speed and quality, fine-tuning settings according to preference. To help even the most demanding users ensure optimal results, there is a zoom feature to help examine and select the best frame of video, while a new comparison feature (available in the standalone version only) lets users compare the results with the original frame – a great way to see the effect of HDRinstant’s dramatic noise reduction abilities.
Professional control and effortless ease of use
HDRinstant 4 also introduces the ability to view the metadata of video files, while a new histogram feature provides at-a-glance understanding of exposure. For computers with a dedicated GPU, it is possible for users to select this more powerful processing option to ensure faster results. Similarly, users can select how many frames to use to balance processing speed and quality, fine-tuning settings according to preference. To help even the most demanding users ensure optimal results, there is a zoom feature to help examine and select the best frame of video, while a new comparison feature (available in the standalone version only) lets users compare the results with the original frame – a great way to see the effect of HDRinstant’s dramatic noise reduction abilities.
About HDRlog
The company was founded by CEO Jacques Joffre, one of the pioneers of HDR technology. After co-founding Photomatix in the early 2000’s, Joffre, a former research professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier and astrophotography enthusiast, developed and patented a breakthrough solution to overcome the constraints of bracketing, using video to process moving subjects in HDR. HDRlog was founded in 2013 to pursue the development of the solution. The first product, a plug-in version of HDRinstant was launched in January 2014. Following several years of development, the company launched its first mainstream release of HDRinstant in 2021.
About HDRlog
HDRlog develops innovative software solutions that unlock new creative possibilities for photographers and videographers.
The company was founded by CEO Jacques Joffre, one of the pioneers of HDR technology. After co-founding Photomatix in the early 2000’s, Joffre, a former research professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier and astrophotography enthusiast, developed and patented a breakthrough solution to overcome the constraints of bracketing, using video to process moving subjects in HDR. HDRlog was founded in 2013 to pursue the development of the solution. The first product, a plug-in version of HDRinstant was launched in January 2014. Following several years of development, the company launched its first mainstream release of HDRinstant in 2021.