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Bracketing

Taking the same shot at a series of different exposures with the intention of choosing the best one later or merging them together to create an HDR image. Most cameras offer an auto exposure bracketing option. You choose the bracketing interval (the difference between the exposures, typically 1EV) and the number of frames (usually 3, sometimes 5 or even 7). Some cameras offer other types of bracketing, e.g. white balance bracketing or even focus bracketing.

How I use merged HDR stacks as ’super-negatives’

April 26, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom and Capture One offer HDR tools with a difference. They don’t create wild and exaggerated HDR effects. Instead, they create what I would call DNG ‘super-negatives’ with extended dynamic range that you can then exploit however you like.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Bits and bit depth, Bracketing, DNG, Dynamic range, HDR

How to use HDR merge in Capture One 22 – and how well does it work?

April 1, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Capture One 22 brings an HDR merge feature that quickly combines several exposures into a single fully editable DNG file with extended dynamic range. But how well does it work?

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, TutorialsTagged With: Bracketing, Capture One, HDR

HDR can work wonders on interiors: this is a church in Porto in Aurora HDR

November 7, 2020 by Rod Lawton

HDR can work wonders on interiors. HDR is not just for high-contrast outdoor scenes or extended dynamic range photography. It can also give interiors a unique, rich and dramatic look.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, Featured, IdeasTagged With: 16-bit image, Aurora HDR (Skylum), Bracketing, HDR

Lightroom HDR: how the HDR Merge tool works

April 24, 2019 by Rod Lawton

Lightroom HDR merge

The Lightroom HDR merge option has been around for a while, so how does it work and how does it compare to a dedicated HDR tool?

Filed Under: Lightroom, TutorialsTagged With: Bracketing, HDR, Lightroom Classic (Adobe)

Aurora HDR review

April 21, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

Aurora HDR 2019

Verdict: 4.5 stars Aurora HDR 2019 can create dense, wild and dramatic HDR effects, natural-looking images, and anything in between, and with out the ‘glow’ effects and other artefacts that plague other HDR tools. It also goes way further, with local adjustments, even image layers and masks. Brilliant.

Filed Under: Aurora HDR, ReviewsTagged With: Aurora HDR (Skylum), Bracketing, HDR

How HDR works: exposure bracketing, merging, tone mapping and effects

January 4, 2019 by Life after Photoshop

How HDR works

HDR is a technique for photographing extra high contrast scenes, but how does it work and do you really need to shoot several exposures?

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, GeneralTagged With: Aurora HDR (Skylum), Bracketing, HDR

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