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Working with brackets - Aurora HDR Tutorial
From the course: Learning Aurora HDR 2018
Working with brackets
- If you talk to an experienced photographer, you may hear them use the word brackets. What happens here, is a photographer will often take several photos of the same scene with slightly different camera settings. Now this was done in the old days just for safety to make sure that as you shot a scene you didn't perhaps miss some of the key details. But over time, as software tools evolved, people started realizing that they can combine these multiple exposures together to get the perfect image. Now in the old days, both in the dark room and in early digital tools, people would look at parts of a photo. Maybe latching on to the sky to pull that part out and then developing the mountain one way and the foreground another way. And then compositing those images back together. I find that when I'm shooting, there are ideal times to shoot. You might have thought about shooting at sunrise or during golden hour. Of course, that might mean you've only got two good hours to shoot each day. And…
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