Digital sensors are not even close to perfect Three photographs were used to create this stunning HDR image of Moraine Lake in Banff National Park. Many scenes, especially at dusk and dawn have so much variation in the amount of light throughout an image that it can be impossible to capture everything.

Photographers use HDR techniques when a single exposure can’t capture all of the tones in a scene. HDR Photography is a technique that combines photographs at different exposures and combines them to capture the complete tonal range of the scene. It’s used by architecture photographers, product photographers, astrophotographers, and even fine art landscape photographers.

When you take a photo with Instagram to make a story, it automatically applies some form of HDR processing on every photo you take.

If you’ve used any of the major phones over the last 4 years, they’re all using HDR automatically. Just type Bad HDR into Google for an unnecessary refresher on what 2008 looked like.īut HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photography is coming back. On internet forums everywhere, it’s the technique used to create jarring, overly sharpened, vivid photographic nightmares. HDR photography has gotten a bad rap since the very beginning of digital photography.

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