This morning I went for a walk around Lake Ginninderra and while I was walking I started playing with the menu on my Sony α7S. While I was stepping through the shooting menu to change from timer (I’d be using the Sony for some food photography as work) to single shot my finger slipped and I noticed more options in this menu. I came across an option for continuous bracket exposure 0.3 EV. I also noticed I could change that to 3 or 5 shots and change the exposure increment from 0.3 to 0.5 to 0.7 to 1 to 2 EV.

Without much experience with this mode shot a few brackets with a view to combining the bracketed images for an HDR product.

This is what I ended up with this morning. I’ll keep playing with this on future walks.

After importing the images into Adobe Lightroom I then selected the bracketed images and went to the Photo menu and selected edit in Photoshop merge HDR. In Adobe Photoshop I selected 32-bit and remove ghosts. I then saved the image as a tiff and reopened the image in the development module of Lightroom. That’s when I did a little tweaking to the exposure, clarity and vibrance.

Do you use continuous bracket exposure?