Keep in mind that if there’s movement your camera shutter speed will need to be fast. The important thing is to balance the increase in detail with a realistic view of the scene.īacklit or high contrast scenes can benefit from using HDR as well. That’s one of the greatest benefits of HDR-the additional details. Just like with interiors, when it’s not possible to get the correct exposure in the sky and in the terrain at the same time, combining several exposures into one can have much better results.
If it’s bright and sunny outside the camera will either expose correctly for the shadows and blow out the highlights, or expose correctly for the highlights and lose details in the shadows.Īnother scenario where HDR photography works well is landscapes. One of the best uses for HDR is for photographing architecture, especially interiors. By using HDR in post processing, we can create an image with more detail in both the highlights and the shadows and that is much closer to what the eye sees. When we look at something, our eyes see a much wider range of light and dark than a camera can capture. What is HDR or High Dynamic Range? Dynamic Range is the variation from the brightest highlights to the darkest shadows in a scene. But if you take those sliders too far it can make the highlights gray and the shadows noisy.Īnother solution to the problem is to create an HDR image. With the shadow slider you can lighten the shadows to get more detail.
You can use the highlight slider to take down the highlights and bring back some detail.
Software like Lightroom is able to do a lot when it comes to fixing a photo that is either over or under-exposed.