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HDR with RAW

Started Feb 6, 2020 | Questions thread
PeterPentax
PeterPentax Senior Member • Posts: 1,131
Re: Who wants 'HDRness'?
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timo wrote:

I am not sure why anyone would want the 'HDR look' - that usually means that something has been overdone. If the camera is already capturing the full dynamic range of a scene in one shot, surely a natural-looking 'HDR' shot shouldn't look any different.

This has probably been pointed out already, but Lightroom is one of the easiest possible ways of achieving HDR. Just fire off three bracketed shots, and LR blends them in moments, including alignment - and will save them as a DNG image. Much more control than doing it in the camera.

I use LR to do a HDR merge from bracketed shots. I think it works well.

As far as HDR "look", if it is overdone and looks unnatural then I don't like it. HDR merge either in camera or in software is very useful in a high DR scene like an interior shot but with a window showing a bright scene outside.

What we see with our eyes and what a single camera exposure can capture are two very different things. Our eyes compensate automatically and very quickly, the camera cannot in a single frame. So when you use terms like "natural looking", you have to allow for the fact that a single capture may not be "natural".

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