HDR – High Dynamic Range photography is one the latest trends that is catching up with so many people. Our cameras cannot capture the a wide range of exposures like our eyes do. Tools required are Photoshop and Photomatix Pro. You can get the 30 day trail package of both these software in their respective websites.

Tip #1: When do you decide if you really have to make a HDR pic? If a scene that you are looking at has a dynamic range larger than your camera can capture. Simply put if you eyes goes just gaga over to adjust to different intensity of light and dark spots then its definitely a HDR scene.

Tip #2: Fixing Sky in HDR: Lot of times when working on pictures with Sky especially mid day sky, the sky turns out to be a strange color. This is mostly due to the Halo effect. In such cases move your Luminosity in your tone mapping towards the right or remix the tonemapped picture with your original exposure shot for the sky in Photoshop.

Tip # 3: Where should your white and black points be in Photomatix Tone Mapping? Move these two sliders right and left making sure your bell curve in the histogram does not run over the extreme points.