In our efforts to stay at the leading edge of technology, HOMEpanorama now uses High Dynamic Range imaging in high-contrast shots, such as indoor shots with bright windows, backlit shots of buildings or sunlit exterior shots with lots of shadows from trees.

In traditional photography, it’s difficult to set the exposure correctly for situations like these: either you set it for the bright windows and the interior is too dark, or you set it for the dark interior and the windows are blown out. The often-used fix for this problem is to shoot both exposures, and then use Photoshop to tediously replace the blown-out windows with the properly-exposed windows, which can work but has varying results.

With HDR software we can take three exposures of the same room (under-, over- and properly-exposed). HDR software can then take the three shots and combine them into a file that has all of the information of the three exposures, and then apply a “tonal-map” to bring out the detail in all areas of the shot.

The following image is the result of that process:

It was created by combining these exposures: