HDRI是High-Dynamic Range (HDR) image的缩写,就是为了解决这个问题而发明出来的,简单说,HDRI是一种亮度范围非常广的图像,它比其它格式的图像有着更大亮度的数据贮存,而且它记录亮度的方式与传统的图片不同,不是用非线性的方式将亮度信息压缩到8bit或16bit的颜色空间内,而是用直接对应的方式记录亮度信息,它可以说记录了图片环境中的照明信息,因此我们可以使用这种图像来“照亮”场景。有很多HDRI文件是以全景图的形式提供的,我们也可以用它做环境背景来产生反射与折射。这里强调一下HDRI与全景图有本质的区别,全景图指的是包含了360度范围场景的普通图象,可以是JPG格式,BMP格式,TGA格式等等,属于Low-Dynamic Range Radiance Image,它并不带有光照信息。
The HDRI Handbook Rocky Nook
High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists
Contributing Authors: Uwe Steinmüller, Dieter Bethke, Bernhard Vogl
The HDRI Handbook reveals the secrets behind High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI). This cutting-edge imaging technology is a method to digitally capture and edit all light in a scene. It represents a quantum leap in imaging technology, as revolutionary as the leap from Black & White to Color imaging. If you are serious about photography, you will renrencg.cn find that HDRI is the final step that places digital ahead of analog. The old problem of over- and underexposure in analog photography, which was never fully solved, is elegantly bypassed here. A huge variety of subjects can now be photographed for the first time ever.
HDRI emerged from the movie industry, and was once Hollywood’s best kept secret. It is now a mature technology available to everyone. The only problem was that it was poorly documented…until now. The HDRI Handbook is the manual that was missing.
Many questions remain open even for the hip CG artists that have been using HDRI for years. This is where The HDRI Handbook comes in. Included here is everything you need to build a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable you to become really creative with HDRI. This book is packed with practical hints and tips, software evaluations, workshops, and hands-on tutorials. A new breed of community driven HDR software is included on the companion DVD, so you can hit the ground running. Whether you are a photographer, CG artist, compositor, or cinematographer, this book is sure to enlighten you.
详细内容包括:
Topics include:
• Understanding the foundation of HDRI
• Tools for a High Dynamic Range Workflow
• How to capture HDR images: today and tomorrow
• Tone mapping for creating superior prints
• HDR Image processing and compositing
• Shooting and stitching HDR panoramas
• Image based lighting and CG rendering
• World premiere of Picturenaut and Smart IBL
• Creative uses and unconventional applications