Please see my HDR test page for more info on how to see these enhanced images (view on Chrome with an M1 or later MacBook Pro for best results).
Please see my HDR test page to determine if you are seeing HDR (view on Chrome with an M1 or later MacBook Pro for best results).
Jabi Sanz uses HDR here to help enhance the sky color and contrast, and ensuring the foreground is not as bright as the light source in the image (which we often must do when editing SDR landscapes to compress the tonal range).
Suhail uses HDR to help accentuate natural lit portraits, including shooting directly into the setting sun.
William Frohne has used HDR in a variety of interesting ways. Aurora images nearly always look incredible in HDR as they include highlight color and gradients which get sacrificed when compressing to SDR (at least without making shadow details far too dark). In addition, William has used a drone to light paint this foreground, which creates unique art and a way to appreciate the cold scene. The foreground would be very hard to interpret as an unlit silhouette and his approach gives a sense of the harsh but beautiful conditions in this scene.
Kenny LeRose’s lightning jumps right off the screen, with a natural glow only possible with HDR.
In his second image, he used HDR to show color and detail in the clouds, which helps keep natural balance of tones (as the sky should be much brighter than the foreground it illuminates).
Scott Osborn’s sky feels like the alpine glow you’d see in person, and the water color and detail is so much more engaging.
Guillermo Alarcon has numerous images taken around Tokyo showing the natural glow of lanterns or neon signs like this. Notice how sense of depth the HDR creates where it casts colored light on the subject’s face, vs the SDR where the color is washed out.
