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I have had quite a few people of late asking me about HDR. The usual question is a straight forward “What is HDR?”. So, in an effort to explain this a little for those of you who visit this site, I though I should give a bit of an explanation.

HDR or High Dynamic Range Photography, in basic terms, is a technique where bracketing is used in a digital camera to take several (usually 3, though it can be more or less) images of varying exposure values. These images are then merged in software to produce a single final photo that has a high, often exaggerated dynamic range of colour and light.

In my case I have been experimenting with three images. One is at a normal or near normal exposure, one is over exposed and one is under exposed. The over exposed and under exposed shots are obtained by using the auto bracketing setting on the digital camera set to +2/-2 EV.

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