For years I'd seen 'painting'-like pictures, with colors seeping through the frame, with detail in the light and dark parts of the photos, and I'd always wondered 'How, how, HOW is it possible for a camera to capture all that vividness, so much contrast, exactly as our eye would see it, so perfectly, digitally?'
The answer, it turns out, is right there at our fingertips, in a fantastic but often overlooked camera-feature : HDR.
High Dynamic Range.
HDR is the magic-trick that combines three different clicks, of the same scene, taken in a short burst - each at a different exposure-level (low, normal, high), and then merging the best portions of those three images into a final, 'seen-through-the-eye'-like portrait.
And the amazing part - we each have our own personal magician prepared to dazzle us with this HDR wizardy - our camera.
Happy 'HDR' Photographing!!
And 'A Happy, Happy New Year!!!'