Jan 27
High dynamic range (HDR) imaging lets you capture brighter brights (the view outside your window) and darker darks (a black cat sleeping on a white bedspread) in one viewable image. You do it by taking bracketed exposures of the same scene – underexposed, normally exposed, overexposed – and then merging them with software that takes the best of each image. Adobe Photoshop includes an HDR tool. If you get hooked, as I have, you may want to look at a tool such as Unified Color PhotoStudio, $149 direct, used to make the image above. Most HDR software merges and remaps the images so you see a greater contrast range but there still is a difference in how believable the image is, based on the quality of the software and the user.
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