DavefromCt
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Most of you know about this but for those who don't....Our eyes have a great range in seeing lights and darks but when we try to photograph something such as a room with a bright window and shadowy room, depending on different factors you will probably get a nice photo of the window but the rest of the room will appear dark, or you might get the room nicely lit but the bright window will come out overpowering. Anyway, in this example of HDR (Hight Dynamic Range) I set my camera to automatically take 3 shots at different meter settings. If you don't have that feature you can do it manually. Then I combined the 3 photos in a program (in this case Photomatix....cost me $39 for the essentials) and you can pick from several choices what the final image will look like and even fine tune it and in this case came out pretty good. It's a room upstairs that the cats hang out in. Very bright sunlight was coming through the window. Here are the two separate shots then the combination. Sometimes you really need to do this like when you have a bright sky and shadowy landscape and you want both to be exposed well. Hope you don't mind this little bit of info but I think it's interesting.
![](http://www.ephotobay.com/image/1window.jpg)
![](http://www.ephotobay.com/image/2room.jpg)
![](http://www.ephotobay.com/image/3hdr.jpg)
![](http://www.ephotobay.com/image/1window.jpg)
![](http://www.ephotobay.com/image/2room.jpg)
![](http://www.ephotobay.com/image/3hdr.jpg)