However, HDR has received bad press due to the unreal results that can be obtained with it. The launch of HDR software like Photomatix and the features progressively added to Photoshop have made this somewhat easier – no need for masks or manual blending. In the early days of digital, this was little more than making an exposure for the sky, and another for the ground and merging them in Photoshop – often with mixed results. Combining several exposures in post processing will recover the highlight and shadow detail. There are many situations when this will not be enough, resulting in blown highlights and shadows dominated by noise. (Though it is in reality actually rather more difficult to extract the full range). Digital cameras have a come a long way in the past ten years, and now a RAW file from a full frame camera can have a 12 stop exposure range.
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