How are HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photos Created
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HDR (high dynamic range) images are new and different than the JPEG's your camera takes. This is because they contain more light information from what would regularly be black shadows and white highlights. This allows the picture to be much more detailed and closer to reality than before.
The best HDR pictures have a wide range of light, from very dark to very light. The greater the difference between bright and dark, the more photos you must take to fill in the missing detail. It is also possible to use a single RAW photo from your camera. This is because RAW files have more light information than JPEG's.
The complicated part is that computer monitors, tvs, and printers are unable to display high dynamic range images. This is because they are unable to produce all the differences in light at once. What we do to solve this is called Tone Compression.
Tone Compression minimizes the light differences in the picture to focus on the important details and then save the image so that it can be viewed on a screen or printed. Fortunatly, there are two programs that allow us to create HDR photos and each does so very well but with different results.
We will teach you what programs to get and how to use them in our step-by-step guide to taking HDR photography.
