What They’re Not Telling You About HDR

If you’ve done any research on shooting and processing HDR images, you probably know that you have to shoot bracketed photos, and then you need some program to combine those bracketed photos into one single image (like Photomatix Pro, or Photoshop’s built-in HDR Pro, or whatever). But, a lot of folks are disappointed once they’ve combined their bracketed frames into one HDR image, because they say, “My shots really don’t look like the ones I see on the web and in books. What am I doing wrong?” It’s not that they’re doing something wrong, it’s just that there’s something the pros do that few are willing to talk about. They take their compiled HDR images into Photoshop and do quite a lot of post-processing there, tweaking everything from the....