High Dynamic Range Photography

A camera’s sensor can only detect and record a limited amount of range of light – it can only record an image that is mid-tone brightness balanced.

For example, you maybe taking a photo of a person or a building with the sun at the background. You may want to overexpose the camera settings so the person or building becomes brighter with details.  Problem is, the background behind the person/building becomes overly overexposed, or washed out or too bright.  The converse is true:  If you wanted to take a photo that you are able to see the background with details with the person in the foreground, you would have to underexpose the camera settings such that the background is able to be seen.  The problem would be that the foreground’s subject (person/building) would become too dark.

The answer to this is High Dynamic Range Photography, where different exposure of photos are taken at a standpoint and then it is manually put together in a photo editing program.  Our website features a wealth of examples pertaining to the outcome of HDR Photography.