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HOW TO CREATE BEAUTIFUL HDR PHOTOS

HDR allows photographers to combine images, allowing you to bring out the full dynamic range of an image from shadows to highlights. It’s useful in a number of situations but tends to have a ‘love it or loathe it’ reaction tied to it – images can look overly surreal and unrealistic.

This is fine if you’re going for a deliberate fantastical look to your images but care needs to be taken if you want natural looking shots.

In this article we’ll look at how to create HDR images and the technical skills you will need.

WHAT IS HDR?

High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography is a post production technique whereby multiple exposures of the same scene are combined into one image. The idea is

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