Lighting is one of the most challenging aspects of photography. Get it right and your pictures come alive, get it wrong and they can appear dull and lifeless.

As camera sensors are less sensitive to light than our eyes, it’s tough to recreate exactly what we see. This is especially true under difficult lighting, such as bright midday sun, backlit subjects, or hazy afternoons.

Does that mean you can’t take great pictures under these conditions? No, but it does mean a little more work, and Aurora HDR can help.

The importance of dynamic range

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Camera sensors have limited dynamic range, so when you expose for your subject, you’re choosing which light to favour. If you want to bring out shadow detail, for example, you have to increase the exposure, sacrificing highlights; if you want more highlight detail, you have to reduce the exposure, sacrificing shadows. Tough lighting only makes these trade-offs worse.

Photographers get around this problem by exposure bracketing – the practice of taking multiple shots of the same subject at different exposures, then combining them to create an image with a high dynamic range (HDR). Done carefully and with the right software, you can transform a flat, uninteresting image into one full of vibrance and realism.

How Aurora makes HDR easy

Aurora HDR takes the principles of HDR and applies them to both multiple and single images using a sophisticated tone mapping engine. The results are incredibly realistic, and you have control over the level and manner in which HDR is applied using simple sliders that anyone, regardless of experience, can master.

Aurora HDR was created with Trey Ratcliff , one of the best HDR photographers in the world, and it really shows. Aside from being extremely user friendly, Aurora HDR includes several powerful tools to pull greater depth, detail, and clarity from your photos.

From correcting vignetting and chromatic aberration to dodge and burn for selective HDR application, Aurora HDR is a cut above many other programs in the market today.

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Why use Aurora HDR?

If you’ve never done it before, HDR photography is tricky to get right. Too much processing and your images lose realism, too little and you lose detail. Aurora gives you full control of HDR enhancement so you can quickly set the right level for all your images, saving those that might’ve ended up in the trash, and there’s a useful history panel if you get a bit heavy-handed and need to reverse your changes.

In short, Aurora HDR is the perfect application for learning how to create amazing HDR photos. Download Aurora HDR now for $10 off the usual price of $99 – just enter the code SOFTONIC at checkout .

Difficult lighting shouldn’t get in the way of great pictures. Download Aurora today and master the art of HDR yourself.

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