Now we can use Lightroom for HDR Photography or Camera Raw to do the actual merging. In the past, I would use Photoshop Merge to HDR or Photomatix (still great options). You can do a minimum of 2 and much more, usually never more than 7 or 9 are ever needed.Īt this point the photos are merged together. Hold down the shutter button and allow the camera to capture all the frames. Most cameras can be set up to shoot this automatically by using AEB (Auto Exposure Bracket) mode. This means shooting the same thing but with different settings to capture the darkest shadow detail and the brightest highlight detail on separate photos. To get around this we “bracket” our photos. The camera still falls short of being able to capture all the detail that you can see. HDR explanation for beginnersĬameras are getting better and RAW has opened up the ability to capture a much wider dynamic range than was possible in the past. A photograph that is said to have a wider dynamic range is able to capture more of the shadows and highlights at the same time. A small dynamic range will allow perfect capture of shadow, but lose all the detail in highlights, or vice versa. Dynamic range is the amount of details that can be captured in the shadows and in the highlights at the same time. When you want your photographs to encompass more of what you see, that is called dynamic range.
mp is just pixel dimensions, nothing more. If you need to print larger, or crop in tighter than your camera allows, you need more megapixels. Megapixels give you a larger image, but that doesn’t means it’s better, just larger. While a lot of people are still chasing megapixels, the real innovation is in dynamic range. If you haven’t looked at it before, or it’s been a while, there really has been an evolution in this technology. I am a huge fan of HDR and have been for quite a while now (about 10 years). If you are new to High Dynamic Range Photography, AKA HDR Photography, see the very popular, detailed tutorial I have written on it here: Colin Smith’s HDR Tutorial. Lightroom 6/CC gave us the ability to merge HDR photos together directly from within Lightroom. A lot of people didn’t realize that we can now to the same thing in Camera Raw.
In the past, we have merged our photos in Photoshop using Merge to HDR. New in Photoshop CC 2015 release is the ability to merge bracketed photos together in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw).
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