![]() The camera can show the detail in the room, with the Window solid white, or the detail outside the window but everything in the room is black. The classic example is being in a dark room looking out on a brightly lit scene. Oh, if anyone reading this doesn't know what HDR is, it stands for "High Dynamic Range" and is usually used to combine differently exposed photographs of a scene to end up with an image capturing a greater range of brightness than the camera can. So remembering that it's a bit of a pain to register (unless you've done one of their tools before) but persevere and you'll get there. Oh and while I am doing a bit of a quick start guide don't forget to check out the manual, especially the stuff on Ghosting removal on page 58: - I'm assuming it's not the Pro version in the Gievaway Note that HDR Projects 4 has a lot of options and you may need to play around a bit to get a natural looking HDR, unless you fancy doing something with a more unnatural look (although some people are not fans of highly processed HDRs others like the effect). If you have Lightroom that also has built-in HDR support. exe to the desktop and go from there (although IIRC it just saves the result in a "standard" location rather than offering a choice). Note the Nik tool is a Plugins but you can just (on Windows) drag a link to the HDR Efex 2. Another free option is HDR Efex 2 which is part of the Nik Tools which were Google and are now DXO, but are available as a free download from (see link at top right). (Registering if you haven't done it for a Franzis tool before is also an adventure, but the tools are good IMHO.) I like their HDR tool (which you can easily use by taking three bracketed exposures, the correct one and typically ones at plus and minus two stops, allowing you to overcome the limited range of brightnesses cameras support in a single image) and think it is well worth installing. I really like the Franzis Projects tools and some are quite excellent (their B+W converter is the best I know and Sharpen Projects is again excellent once you get away from its default attempt), so I always try to see if I can help people get over the initial learning curve. ![]() I wrote this for the HDR Projects 3 Giveaway so I'll repeat it here, in case of use (with minor edits).
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