HDR Photography: Starting and Ending in Lightroom
- Preparing Your Images for Success
- Poring Over the Picture
- Poring Over the Picture
- Preparing Images in Lightroom
- Adjusting Images in Lightroom
- Basic HDR Theory
- Chapter 4 Assignments
Preparing Your Images for Success
Once you’ve captured your images, it’s time to perform magic on the computer. Modern HDR programs shave hours off the time it used to take a photographer to manually blend images in Photoshop, and days off the time it took to achieve similar results in the darkroom. There are many HDR programs, and they all operate a little differently. All, however, can produce both surreal and realistic results. The surreal look is relatively easy to achieve without any coaching; creating a realistic image is more of a challenge. In this chapter, I show you how to prepare your images for the HDR process using Adobe Lightroom. In the next chapter, I delve into creating HDR photos using Lightroom and Photomatix.