STEP BY STEP: HOW TO OBTAIN A SUCCESSFUL HDR IMAGE
by Nikon D610, 16-35mm, three bracketed
Jul 07, 2018
2 minutes
HDR is a technique with one foot firmly in shooting and the other in editing. The two are inextricably linked and can't be separated. Well, that's not entirely true because some cameras can shoot HDR images in-camera, but the results there are inferior to taking a more manual approach.
There are amerging images, it merges them into a single new DNG file. This DNG is larger than a standard raw file from your camera because it contains all the image data from each exposure, which basically means you can push and pull exposure, shadows, highlights and more to extract as much detail as necessary.
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