The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

26. CREATING HDR IMAGES

AS WONDERFUL AS our cameras are, there are times when the camera will not be able to capture the entire range of light values in a scene with one single shot. If you try to expose for a beautiful background in a scene, chances are you’re going to underexpose the shot to get all of the saturated colors. When you do that, you’ll notice that the foreground elements, or anything that happens to be behind the light source, turn out really dark. If you try to expose for the foreground elements, you’re likely going to overexpose the sky, and you’ll lose all of the color you’re intending to capture in the picture.

In situations ...