Hydra

One-click HDR editing for all – too good to be true?

- Dave Stevenson

Digital cameras – whether that’s the iPhone or an expensive DSLR – have a problem. Compared to the human eye, the amount of dynamic range they can capture is very limited. Dynamic range is the range of brightness, between total shadow and very bright highlight, present in an image.

High dynamic range photography, or HDR for short, offers a possible solution. Photographers take a series of images from the same position, varying the exposure of each one so that the first shot captures the darkest details in the frame, and the last shot captures the very brightest elements. These images are then merged – a process that Hydra is dedicated to.