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How to get the most from the Capture One High Dynamic Range controls

July 10, 2013 by Rod Lawton

03 Highlight enhancement

Capture One high dynamic range

This is looking much better now, but the increase in the Exposure has made the sky a lot lighter and paler than it was originally. I can counteract that by increasing the Highlight slider value – this darkens down the brightest parts of the picture without affecting the rest.

04 Improving the Clarity

Capture One high dynamic range

This has all worked pretty well, though one of the problems of compressing an image’s tonal range in this way is that it can make the picture look rather ‘flat’. It’s not Capture One’s fault – this is a side-effect of tonal compression in any program. But it is possible to counteract this with Capture One’s Clarity setting. This adds localised contrast to the scene, making objects stand out more clearly – it’s like sharpening, but over a much wider radius.

05 The end result

Capture One high dynamic range

And this is the final picture. The HDR effect is slightly exaggerated here, but I wanted to show just how effective Capture One Pro 7’s Dynamic Range controls really are.

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More Capture One tutorials

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Filed Under: Capture One, TutorialsTagged With: HDR, Highlight recovery, Shadow recovery

Life after Photoshop is owned and run by photographer and journalist Rod Lawton. Rod has been a photography journalist for nearly 40 years, starting out in film (obviously) but then migrating to digital. He has worked as a freelance journalist, technique editor and channel editor, and is now Group Reviews Editor on Digital Camera World. Life after Photoshop is a personal project started in 2013.

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