More HDR

So I've been working more with creating HDR Images. HDR Stands for High Dynamic Range. It starts with taking a series of photos of the same composition (3min-7or 9 max) with varying exposures. Bracketing on the camera helps, but sometimes you have to manually set things on the camera to get things perfect. You want to capture a range of images from almost completely dark to totally blown out. Having a tripod is essential since you have some long exposures and each image needs to be an exactly the same as the previous. Any movement (of the camera of subject matter) will throw the final image off, so people or moving objects are almost impossible (unless your subject is very very patient). Once you have the images on the computer, you then import then into Photoshop through the merge HDR pulldown in the automation selection in the File menu. This makes a 32 bit image, whicg is a much higher range of tonal values in the channels. Instead of only 255 ranges of brightness for each Red, Green, and Blue Channel, you have thousands. This isn't going to be visibly different from other images, but the level of manipulation and detail you are able to pull out from the various exposure ranges is dramatic. With that being said, each image is different as well as each desired outcome, so that's why mention there is a lot of manipulation as well.