Is HDR Photography the Best Way to Create Stunning Images?
On a clear blue sky day, with the sun at your back, it is fairly easy to capture good images. Some cameras do it better than others because the tonal range is not always identical across the range of cameras. HDR photography has been around for some time now and is slowly growing in popularity, although some purist prefers to work in raw. If however you are faced with wanting to get a really good landscape on a cloudy or overcast day there are two ways to go about it. Set your digital camera to raw, if it has a raw mode, and process the image on your pc. If you want a more dramatic impact take several pictures and process them with HDR software. For the best, most dramatic results shoot in raw and then process with HDR software. So what exactly is HDR? High Dynamic Range imaging in a nutshell is a process where you take a minimum of three pictures, one perfectly exposed, one over exposed and one under exposed – usually by one stop. To ensure that each image overlaps perfectly your came
