HDR Photography Use (Part 1)

When thinking of high dynamic range photography, many imagine an elaborate, highly saturated photo of unrealistic nature. This may be of good use to some artists, but for most photographers not so much. The essence of HDR's abilities is to take a scene with very contrasting exposure needs and output the best of each situation. No saturation about it. That means you can take several differently exposed photos which are each "correct" for some portion of a photograph and put them together into one, creating a photograph depicting total ideal exposure. The HDR revolution provides a way to solve the same problem photographers have had from the beginning: what exposure will give the best possible balance? Keep in mind that we have always had a method of adding excessive saturation. Try it by going with a tripod and taking some shots with easy and difficult exposure scenes. The best software may be Adobe Photoshop CS5 or free solutions such as Photomatix Basic or another found through a quick Google search.