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Creating a High Dynamic Range Photograph using Raw files and Photomatix

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Every exposure we make is generally a compromise unless we are extremely lucking with the lighting conditions and we rarely are that lucky. Do we expose to get good shadow details underneath the Image 1, or do we accept the strong sky tones on Image 3? What we have tended to do is to go for a midway point as in Image 2 and then we have started our manipulation in Photoshop to darken some areas and lighten others. That takes time and some skill to be able to do that effectively. Come in HDR. With our three images below we shot Image 1 with a 1 stop over exposure, Image 2 at the standard exposure and Image 3 with a 1 stop under exposure.

Image 1	Image 2	Image 3

Using Photomatix software we can stitch all three images together as a HDR image and the result is what you can see below. HDR is almost definitely what we will be doing in the future, why not get up to date with the techniques now with this video. Unfortunately we cannot include our 3 starting images with this download because it increases the download file size too much.

Another HDR final image taken in Crete in bright sun conditions

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