The iPhone HDR feature is great for shooting high contrast scenes with dark shadows and bright highlights. HDR is perfect for landscape photography.
Landscape scenes are often high contrast, with the foreground much darker than the sky. The photo below was shot without HDR. The brighter parts of the sky are completely over-exposed. They appear pure white with no color or detail. The darker areas, such as the boat and plants in the foreground, appear slightly under-exposed. Now compare the above image to HDR version below. Using HDR has resulted in a perfectly lit photo with plenty of color and detail in both the foreground and the sky.
It can be used in other shooting situations with tricky lighting conditions. The examples below show how you can use HDR when photographing a shaded subject against a bright sky. If the shadows appear too dark or the highlights are too bright, switch on HDR in the Camera app. Knowing when to use it, and when not to use it, is key to capturing the best quality photos in different situations.
If you want to intentionally capture the high contrast nature of a scene, keep HDR switched off. This allows you to capture sharp HDR photos of moving subjects. If you have an older iPhone, be wary of using HDR when photographing moving subjects. This is especially important when shooting HDR photos in low light.
For best results, use an iPhone tripod and iPhone tripod mount. This ensures it remains perfectly still while capturing the multiple HDR exposures. Also, ensure Keep Normal Photo is switched on. This tells your iPhone to save a non-HDR version of the photo too.
If you have these options, choose On. Note that it takes slightly longer to capture an HDR photo than a regular one. This is because the camera has to capture three images at different exposures and combine them into a single photo.
Any movement would result in a blurred photo caused by camera shake. HDR is an amazing tool for helping you create better exposed photos.
It has a range of HDR shooting and editing options, allowing you to customize the final result. It has vibrant colors, and lots of detail in both the shadows and the highlights. For comparison, below are two photos of the same scene that were shot with the native Camera app. The difference between the two native camera photos is quite subtle.
The HDR photo has more detail in the bright areas of the sky, and slightly more detail in the shadows. It also produces vibrant colors that could normally only be achieved with a photo editing app.
The camera screen will appear as shown below. Tap the Menu icon three horizontal lines , then open Settings gear icon. Check the options are set up as shown below, then tap Done. Drag these boxes around to select which parts of the image you want to expose for, e. When you press the shutter button, the camera needs to take three separate photos at different exposures.
To avoid any blurring in the final image, hold your iPhone steady or mount it on a tripod. The example below shows what happens if you move your iPhone while the camera is taking the pictures.
When the app has captured and blended the three exposures, the resulting HDR image is displayed. The HDR effect can be overpowering to start with. The colors might look over-saturated, and the highlights may appear too dark or grainy.
First, if you have an iPhone X and earlier, you need to decide whether or not you want your iPhone to save just the HDR photo, or both the HDR photo and the normal photo. The pro of saving both is that you can review each and choose which you like the best. If you have an iPhone 8 or later, then your camera will automatically take HDR photos whenever possible unless you turn it off in Settings.
If your HDR setting appears to be on in the Camera viewfinder and you're still not seeing HDR photos in the Photos app, then your subject matter probably doesn't have enough contrast between light and shadow to make the HDR technique necessary. Try taking a picture of a tree against a clear sky, or out a window from a dark room into a bright outside, to make sure that HDR is working.
Once you take your picture:. Yes and no. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range regardless of whether you're talking about photographs or displays. As a photographic technique, HDR has been around since the early days of film. HDR displays, on the other hand, are an advanced technology that offers millions more colors than HD displays by literally shining more light, so the image is more vibrant and striking. You can take and view HDR Photos without an HDR display, and they'll still do a better job than normal photos of balancing light and dark.
HDR mode on the iPhone has improved since its introduction, but many photographers still say it isn't the best. This post originally appeared on Lifehacker in March It was updated on May 5, , June 12, , and Dec. Never ever ever ever ever — if you're a self-respecting DSLR user. UNLESS: You have illusions being a digital illustrator, then sure, go ahead, if you like wierd halos around everything.
The A. Life in General. Take a look at a crop of just that portion of the photo, and notice how the HDR version captured the texture of the snow and the house across the street. Before it was a button on the iPhone, HDR was a photographic technique for dealing with tricky lighting situations.
Having both bright spots and shadows in the same frame can make it tricky to capture a good image — often, either the bright parts will lack detail, or the shadowy parts will appear too dark, like in the examples below. In the first photo, the sky is washed out. In the second photo, the landmass is too dark to see any detail. HDR Photography solves this problem by taking several different versions of the photo in rapid succession, and merging them together into a single image.
Each version will be adjusted to a slightly different brightness — so your iPhone will take one photo for the shadowy parts, and one for the bright parts. Then it will merge the best elements of each of these photos together into a single photo that has vivid detail all the way through. Technically, the process is a little bit more complicated than this, of course.
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