HDR in Lightroom - Explained! - Camera Settings - How to Merge - How to Edit

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is a technique that allows you to capture a wide range of tone, colour and detail in your photos. HDR images are visually striking and bring out the full beauty of a scene. And in combination with Lightroom, HDR photography helps get perfect, vibrant exposures every time.

Adobe Lightroom provides powerful tools to create HDR images effortlessly. In this blog, we'll walk you through the process of creating stunning HDR images in Lightroom, from shoot to edit, what HDR is, and why you should try it.

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[michaelroberts]

His Lightroom course greatly benefited my photography.

[interdec]

HDR gives many opportunities to expand the dynamic range of your camera. Personally, I think the sky is darkened too much in this image making the whole image feel rather muddy and I’d have taken a less is more approach, enhancing the sky detail but not darkening it so much. That apart, what a great video, with an excellent description and explanation of what hdr actually is!

[chrisingram]

What a journey lightroom is. Many thanks for the guidance.

[interdec]

It’s worth mentioning that the three (or five) exposures should be achieved by varying the shutter speed, and not the aperture. The reason for that is changing the aperture will also change the depth of focus, making it more difficult to merge the images in some cases, especially those with a shallower depth of field.

[kingkcheifre]

This Lightroom demonstration has helped my real estate photography career take off! Thank you so much! What an in depth lesson! You certainly earned my sub and I’m now considering your course!

[janetyrer]

This is great! Really helpful. Definitely going to try this

[stanc]

Thank You! Very well put together video

[stephenbetts]

I am one of your newest students at TSOP Marc, and I am blown away by your teaching techniques, this HDR explanation is top drawer mate.

[LauMagroTheFrenchKOInection]

Love the way you explain things. Very good.

[benontheroadnl]

What a great video! Thank you! I subscribed

[marktaylor]

Best explanation of the reasons to use HDR that I've come across 👏👏👏. Thanks Marc, very much appreciated, now to set the auto bracketing function and try it out.

[by.othman]

fabulous content, as always... much appreciated

[petereliassen]

what about basically muliply the noise with every extra picture you use for hdr ?

[photographybylieven]

Thank you sir for such amazing and extremely helpful content!

[PaulSpurgeon-bwet]

Great video and a good exclamation of HDR. Thank you.

[jameshogg]

Great Info and very helpful. If I set the HDR Limit box to full rather than 4 do I get a potential to visualise 5 stops overexposed?
Thanks

[carolbell]

Thanks.... Have learnt a lot. Have taken shots in HDR of scenes with animals (I live on the boarder of Kruger in S. Africa) and have never known what to do when or if the animal moves. Another important lesson is degrading my photos with highlights and shadows. Am really trying to use curves a lot more and its taking a lot of practice.

[lindastewart]

Thanks for explaining how this works. Just purchased a Canon 6D mark II and have since saw countless videos saying how awful the dynamic range is so hopefully trying this technique will work 🤞🏻

[chrispeacock]

With these tutorials they should specify Lightroom or Lightroom Classic.

[edomn]

Great explainer and walkthrough! Curious how you feel this interacts with Lightroom's new HDR exporting tools/gain maps, etc. Seems like you'd have to create two edits, one for SDR and one for HDR displays, and the HDR file will be automatically tone-mapped down to SDR for those kinds of displays.

Is there a way to have the two 'best' edits export into a single file so regardless of display you'd end up with the best possible version of the image being displayed? Seems like we're in that middle 'growing pains' point with these technologies!