Shooting Hand-Held HDR Shots

I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter that you don’t have to shoot your HDR shots on a tripod thanks to some advances in the HDR software that actually align your images and remove any “ghosting” that might happen from movement (and both work amazingly well). Now, whether you can get away with hand-holding really comes down to just one thing: how much light there is where you’re shooting. If you’re shooting outside in the day, it’s probably not going to be a problem, so just hold your camera steady and fire away. If you’re indoors, or it’s stormy out, or if it’s night, then it gets tricky. Now, I’ve hand-held five bracketed HDR shots inside a church, and they all came out pretty sharp. However, since I knew the light was low, I did ....