What is HDR Photography and How Does it Make Better Photos

HDR photography has become more and more popular among various groups of people. Everywhere we look, we see photographers posting the result of their experiments with HDR photos. It encourages us to create a few of our own HDR photos. But how do we go about creating really interesting high dynamic range photography?

HDR photography is surprisingly easy to create. It simply involves capturing multiple images at different exposures using the right camera settings. Your shutter speed choices are important when you are doing HDR photography because you need to capture many images at different exposure settings. You can use auto exposure bracketing for this most effectively when making HDR photos. After capturing multiple images you need to do some HDR processing to produce a final HDR image. This can be done with dedicated HDR software.

The HDR photography technique involves taking at least three photos of the same high contrast scene in order to create one HDR image. Creating HDR pictures in this way requires the use of a good tripod for making the bracketed exposures. Creating HDR images at different exposures while hand holding your camera will not provide good enough results for HDR photography. Each photo for the HDR image must be precisely the same composition, otherwise you will see a ghosting effect once the HDR processing is completed.

What is HDR Photography?

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range . HDR Photography is a composite of two or more images of the same scene that are taken at different exposures. They are then combined together in order to create one perfectly exposed HDR image.

HDR photography is primarily dependent on post-processing tools. This is because HDR photography is very difficult to get everything perfectly exposed in one single image. Just like anything else in photography, there is more than one way to create HDR images. You could simply shoot RAW images and then adjust them to create an HDR images. This would be an alternative to making several images of the same scene and then combine everything together. This is what multiple image HDR photography is all about.

So when you are setting up to create HDR photos, you must concentrate on the final HDR image. You can do this by manually setting your camera or by using the HDR mode, if you camera has this. Then, once you have your set of images for your HDR photograph, you must combine them using software or an app like Aurora HDR.

Why is HDR Photography So Popular?

The main reason HDR photography is popular is because a digital camera is not capable of recording such a wide dynamic range of tone in a single frame as the human eye can see. Dynamic range is about how the camera can record the darkest and brightest areas in a composition. Currently, even the most advanced digital cameras do not record a full dynamic range in high contrast scenes.

By making multiple exposures, with either manual or automatic exposure bracketing, the HDR process is possible. Because the images taken at varying exposure values are them combined into a single final image, the tone mapping features in software allow for a more complete dynamic range to be visible in the final image.