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For those of you not in the loop, HDR is High Dynamic Range, a photographic technique that drastically increases the dynamic lighting range in an image. Most cameras (almost all, if not all) cameras have a significantly limited dynamic range compared to the human eye. This means that the brightest brights and the darkest darks are far inferior in an photograph than you actually perceive through your eyes. HDR tries to bring this to reality, by synthetically producing a higher-than-normal dynamic range by comparing sets of over and underexposed images and producing a composite image. This process almost overlaps sets of images on each other while attempting to broaden the dynamic range of the final photo.

So, I tried this with my lovely Nikon DSLR. My outdoor pictures were not that great because the wind made it hard to capture a consistent image, though my indoor delicious cookie photo did much better.

Check out the original “proper” exposure:

And the HDR:

Notice the dramatic increase in the level of detail in the HDR image compared to the original.

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