ABSTRACT
The digital darkroom—Lightroom and Photoshop—is where photographers can check, rescue, enhance and play with their exposures. It's also were photographers can create high dynamic range (HDR) images and play with plug-ins. Photoshop and Lightroom offer HDR processing though Photomatix is more powerful when it comes to working with very high contrast scenes. Basically, the wider the dynamic/contrast range, the more pictures are needed to create an HDR image. A red filter darkens a blue sky and makes white clouds more prominent in the image. HDR was needed to capture the wide dynamic range of the scene from the deep shadows to the bright sky. Hand-held images can be hard for HDR programs to align but that is improving as HDR programs, Photoshop and Lightroom are updated. In Photoshop, photographer has the same Show Highlight Clipping and Show Shadow Clipping triangles in the Camera RAW window and in the Camera RAW filter.
