HDR – High Dynamic Range

Lets use an example.  You’re in a large kitchen with at one end a lovely large bright window, looking out onto the greenery outside.  Inside it’s fairly light, but there is also a lot of light streaming through the window. You take out your camera, and take a shot.

Chances are you’ll get one of two things happen. 1; you have a shot in which the windows are completely blown out with a white haze, but the inside looks OK, or 2; a shot in which the outside is clearly visible but inside the room is dark.

This happens because unlike your eyes, a camera cannot distinguish between extreme light and dark, and has to just deal with one at a time. Most photographers will just find a happy medium and adjust the ISO, Exposure and aperture settings to deal with light the best he can.

HDR is a great way of dealing with this, giving great results. It involves taking a number of shots of the same scene, but in varying exposures. This will give you a range of shots, each one giving you a different exposure and showing the varying degrees of light in the room and outside. These shots can then be merged together into a single photo giving you an end result that shows all the highlights in the room.

We use HDR techniques as standard in our tours, we don’t charge extra for them.

Get in touch with us on 0845 301 0865 to discuss how we can produce a fantastic HDR virtual tour for your location.