From the course: Lightroom and Photoshop: Black and White Photography

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HDR for black and white

HDR for black and white

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HDR for black and white

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- [Narrator] Okay, the next thing I'd like to talk about is HDR or high dynamic range and, for that, we've got a number of relatively small JPEGs here that are taken at different exposures so if I hit the space bar, I'm going to get a full-screen preview. This one, I've shot really dark and that gives me some of the detail in the sky. As I arrow to the right, I'm going to see that, gets a little bit brighter and one of the problems with a cityscape is that people are moving through the image, and so what I want to do is I want to combine these and make a better exposure, something more like what my eye sees. Now, historically this is something that was done in Photoshop and, normally, people think about doing this with color images but it's very effective for black and white images and it can be done in a way that's really tasteful so, here's how it works. I just select the images I want by Shift + Clicking. Those are the…

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