Advanced Topics
An exploratory learning guide
To Do
- Create an image using a “stitching” technique (Brenizer, panorama)
- Create an exposure technique image (HDR, time stacking, focus stacking, ETTR)
- Create a composite image (composite portrait, double exposure)
- Reflect on what you learned by exploring these various techniques.
Technique Guides
Stitching Techniques
Stitching techniques involve the use of multiple images combined to form a much larger images. Panoramas are the most common example, but as Ryan Brenizer demonstrates, the technique can be used for other purposes.
Panoramas
Brenzier Portraits
Exposure Techniques
Exposure techniques involve the use of either multiple exposures combined into one image, or intentionally altering your exposure from something beyond “correct” to produce a more optimal image. HDR is the most well-known example of an exposure technique.
HDR
Time Stacking
Focus Stacking
ETTR
Composite Images
A composite image is two or more images combined to create a new image. Many portraits today utilize this technique– the person and the background are shot at different times and combined together– but this is one of the oldest “advanced techniques” that photography has.
Composite Portraits
Double Exposures
Other Kinds of Composites
