HDR from a single RAW

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Title	Author	Replies	Latest Post
Another go...any feedback?	benlowther	9	18 hours ago
Finally some resuts I'm looking for	KrazyBee	4	5 days ago
there is not enough dynamic range in these photos to construct a useful HDR image	delwynrut	9	6 days ago
.Raw HDR CS2 & CS3 users. Tone mapping plug in from PHOTOmatix	h.fry	0	2 weeks ago
does this qualify?	kevwil	6	2 weeks ago
My latest effort	benlowther	1	3 weeks ago

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About HDR from a single RAW

To get the best from HDR (High Dynamic Range) images one should really plan ahead and use bracketed exposures right from the camera.

Sometimes however this is not possible, such as in action shots, or perhaps you merely wish to rescue a shot that has under or overexposed areas that can't be corrected by other means. If you shoot in RAW, as I do, you can create bracketed exposures from a single RAW file and use these to produce HDR images. Perhaps not as good as HDRs planned and executed from start to finish but certainly good enough to rescue a shot you like that suffers from exposure problems.

The talented lightpainter has shown, with this image, that it is even possible to produce a good HDR image when all you have to work from is a single JPEG.

This group is for those HDR images that you have produced from a single photograph you have taken, whether RAW, TIFF or JPEG. Photographs by other people that you have tone mapped are NOT welcome, and may be deleted without warning.

While I'm not a supporter of groups requiring posted images to have specific tags, I am using the tag hdr:single_raw for my own photos, so if you would like to use a tag to identify your shots, perhaps use that so we all use a common tag.

Please try and keep your posting down to 3 per day and don't post series of similar photos (put them in a set and post just one from the set instead). It is obviously difficult to police whether images posted here actually belong so I will give you the benefit of the doubt. If do delete any postings I will do so without warning or notification, but you are welcome to query a deletion if you wish.