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    HDR IN MONOCHROME

    Nov 27, 2020 3 minutes

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    High-dynamic-range photos are usually associated with bold colors and eye-popping images, and less so with black-and-white images. So if the colors are part of the draw of HDR, why use it in your mono shots?

    HDR is about expanding the dynamic range of a photo to encompass the brightest and darkest parts of a scene, and this can be just as useful for monochrome images, which are all about tonality. In fact, with black-and-white HDRs we have a few advantages. The lack of color leads to a subtler HDR treatment. What’s more, several of the traits of

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