Assessing the competency of high dynamic range technique in Architectural Photography

Abstract

In photography field although there are number of categories, the category of architectural photography takes a unique place among the other categories because in architectural photography the abiotic subjects are represented as an artistic way. However, when capturing architectural subjects, photographers face many problems such as lighting issues, lack of dynamic range etc. that eventually reduce the quality of the photograph. Although the technique of High Dynamic Range (HDR) is introduced to minimize the above problems in other photography categories, in architectural photography this technique is not widely used because of some hollow sentiments of architectural photographers. By conducting the questionnaire, it was identified that most of the architectural photographers are not aware about the benefits of the HDR technique. Also, from the practical session it was observed that the architectural HDR photographs are more useful than the ordinary photographs because in HDR photographs the colour depth, dynamic range and the details of the architectural structures are well captured than the ordinary photographs. The results of this study proves that the HDR technique is suitable to capture the architectural photographs because it helps to resolve the problems which photographers face mainly due to the lack of dynamic range.