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HDR Photography Isn't About Misleading Advertising
HDR is High Dynamic Range photography.  There are a number of real estate related sites that have mentioned HDR, some criticizing it as over-enhancement of images that mislead the viewer who will see something very different when they actually visit a home.  While there are a great many things you can do with HDR software to enhance and even change a photo dramatically, I use it for the range of exposures that gives me better interior shots.  You know the problems with lighting, and shooting toward bright windows.  Those problems go away with HDR.
Basically, HDR is taking three or more shots across a spread of exposures, most commonly 1 stop on each side of the normal exposure.  So, the center shot is normal, one shot is darker and the other lighter, as -1, 0, +1.  The darker exposure shot will allow a better view through that bright window, with the interior going very dark.  The brighter shot will bring out the darker areas of the interior, but the window will be blown out.  It's the merging of the three with software that makes an HDR image and one that lets the photo show more like what the human eye sees. ... more

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