HDR is an abbreviation for High Dynamic Range photography.
Most camera sensors can only process so much information in the scene and usually either the brighter or the darker highlights are lost in an image.
HDR photography is a technique where you take a series of exposures of the same scene and later combine them using software programs like Adobe PhotoShop.
Look at the sample HDR image below by mescon.
The resulting HDR photo is more closer to the way our eyes see a scene and so appears very rich in detail. But, you have to be careful with this technique as you can easily over do some aspects of it and end up with an image that looks unreal.
Flickr user Leviathor has put together an excellent step by step tutorial to enhance photos into a HDR photograph.
There are professional tools like the Photomatix Pro
The Definitive Guide to Realistic High Dynamic Range Images
I know what I am going to do this coming New Year’s weekend with my Canon Rebel T1i.
Few good HDR Photography books
- Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Digital Photography
- The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists +DVD
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