“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. A word of caution: HDR will use more memory than standard picture-taking.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: Turn on HDR from the iPhone's standard camera application by simply sliding the HDR toggle. If you're unhappy with the results, the iPhone actually saves two images: the HDR version and the shot it would have taken without the feature. While the final product is rarely perfect, it's often much better than the original – with no extra work required. The third goes for the mid-tones, much like the non-HDR photo.Īfter it snaps all three photos, the iPhone tries to identify the best aspects of each shot and stitches them into a single image. One captures the bright spots, such as the sky. One shot is tuned for dark areas, such as the flowers in the image above. Each image uses a different exposure level. With HDR on, a phone will snap three photos in rapid succession. But HDR tries to fix the image as it's being taken. The flowers seem lost in shadow.Ī professional could repair this image with editing. The brick walkway looks great, but the camera lost a lot of detail in the bright and dark areas. The left photo was taken without “high dynamic range,” or HDR. This leads to problems when dealing with harsh light and heavy shadow. As convenient as smartphone photography may be, there’s one key weakness: Few phones offer exposure settings.

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