{"id":533,"date":"2010-09-12T23:13:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2010-09-12T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:13:34","slug":"high-dynamic-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/high-dynamic-range\/","title":{"rendered":"High Dynamic Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m impressed with the new &#8220;high dynamic range&#8221; (HDR) photography feature in iOS 4.1 for iPhone 4. The feature basically takes three versions of the image in quick succession, each using a different light setting. Software then combines the three photos using image processing algorithms. The goal is to avoid washed-out bright areas and dark, almost-black shadowed areas.<\/p>\n<p>I took the picture below with HDR turned on. I did not use a tripod, did not set anything manually, and did no post-processing other than cropping. (Click it to see full resolution.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Seattle-HDR.jpg\" alt=\"Seattle skyline using iPhone with HDR\" title=\"Seattle skyline using iPhone with HDR\" width=\"470\" height=\"258\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Seattle-HDR.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Seattle-HDR-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plain, non-HDR version of the image looked pretty good too, but everything was more washed out, especially the buildings and sky. The trees were a bit brighter but didn&#8217;t look as rich. I think the HDR version looks astonishingly professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m impressed with the new &#8220;high dynamic range&#8221; (HDR) photography feature in iOS 4.1 for iPhone 4. The feature basically takes three versions of the image in quick succession, each using a different light setting. Software then combines the three photos using image processing algorithms. The goal is to avoid washed-out bright areas and dark, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/high-dynamic-range\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Dynamic Range&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}