Tuesday, October 26, 2010

PRO HDR

Pro HDR is a tool suggested to me by my old roommate and friend, David Linder. It is an app that takes two separate pictures (a dark picture and a light picture) and combines them together.

"Thanks to Pro HDR, you no longer have to choose between a blown-out sky or a hopelessly dark foreground. Bringing high dynamic range photography to your iPhone, Pro HDR lets you capture an image exposed for the highlights and another exposed for the shadows. It then automatically aligns andblends the images, giving you a gorgeous HDR image up to 5 megapixels like nothing you've ever seen from such a tiny device."

How to use it:
There are three ways.
one: You can take two images you already have, one light, one dark, and combine those together.
two: You can use PRO HDR to take two pictures where it will prompt you to tap a light part of your image and a dark part of your image and it will then combine them.
three: you can choose the Auto HDR where it will find the light and dark parts and combine them all by itself, all you have to do is hold your phone steady.

Downsides: You have to have an incredibly steady hand in order to take a good shot, or lay your phone on something. For this app alone, I am considering buying the iphone tripod.

Upsides: I love how the pictures turn out! They are so vibrant and colorful. After the pictures combine, you have some settings that you can mess around with, such as saturation and contrast giving lots of customization to your photos.




All Pictures ©Staphon Arnold

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