How to use Merge to HDR in Lightroom
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Channel: Robin Whalley · 2016 · Howto & Style
✅ FREE 6 Steps to Shooting Beautiful Landscape: https://geni.us/Robin_Whalley_FreeBook The recent addition of a Merge to HDR (High Dynamic Range) feature in Lightroom enables you to combine multiple photos taken with different exposures into a single HDR image. The resulting HDR image will have a higher dynamic range than any of the single images alone. OTHER BOOKS Make photo editing easy with my books and courses: https://lenscraft.co.uk/books-by-robin-whalley/ Other features of the Merge to HDR option include the resulting image being generated as a 32-bit image which is saved as a DNG file. This helps to maintain the maximum image quality throughout the HDR processing. The resulting HDR DNG file is also added to the Lightroom Catalogue making the management of merged images very simple. If you are a nature or landscape photographer, you will find the processed HDR image to be very natural in appearance and display none of the typical HDR tone mapping characteristics. Images in the sequence of photos being merged should ideally have identical framing and have no moving elements. Lightroom will though make a remarkably good HDR merge from images where this isn’t the case. You should also ensure the image set to be merged includes an image exposed for the Highlights as well as one exposed for the shadows. How many images you include within your HDR sequence will depend on the dynamic range to be captured. #robinwhalley #lenscraft #lenscraftphotography
