Introduction

It’s pretty safe to say that HDR photography is in full bloom. Your iPhone has an HDR picture mode. Google offers HDR filters to pictures uploaded to Google+. There are filters from various companies emulating HDR effects, offering to give you “that HDR look” that you are looking for. With so much HDR imagery available, I feel like the number of people who are interested in the technique has increased since we last spoke. It made me want to go back and think about the relevance of what I had written previously.

When I wrote the first version of this book, I really set out to debunk the entire idea that HDR was this overly complex dark art that few could really master. The fact of the matter is that making an HDR file is actually ...

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