The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom: 55 Photographic Principles You Need to Know by Rafael Concepcion

Author:Rafael Concepcion [Concepcion, Rafael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781681982731
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Published: 2017-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Figure 25.7 The Spot Removal Tool is great for removing marks or blemishes on portraits.

Figure 25.8 Before Spot Removal.

Figure 25.9 After Spot Removal.

26. CREATING HDR IMAGES

AS WONDERFUL AS our cameras are, there are times when the camera will not be able to capture the entire range of light values in a scene with one single shot. If you try to expose for a beautiful background in a scene, chances are you’re going to underexpose the shot to get all of the saturated colors. When you do that, you’ll notice that the foreground elements, or anything that happens to be behind the light source, turn out really dark. If you try to expose for the foreground elements, you’re likely going to overexpose the sky, and you’ll lose all of the color you’re intending to capture in the picture.

In situations like this, the solution is to take a series of pictures at different exposures, and then merge the images together to create a single image with a higher dynamic range. Up until very recently, Lightroom did not have the capacity to do this, but now it has a built-in HDR feature that works extremely well for producing really natural-looking HDR images.

When Adobe released this update, they said that one of the benefits of working with HDR in Lightroom is that you need fewer images to create the resulting HDR file. After some experimentation with the HDR feature in Lightroom, I can safely say that they are correct. You can get away with using about three images of varying exposures to create the final HDR file.

Locate the three images you wish to use in the filmstrip below the main workspace or in the Grid View mode, and Command-click each image to select it. Right-click on one of the images and select Photo Merge > HDR from the menu (Figure 26.1).

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