Single photo processed to HDR vs multiple photo bracketed in camera the processed?
rmeyer7 wrote: The idea behind HDR is that your final image contains more dynamic range than a camera is capable of recording in a single image. (Thus the name, High Dynamic Range.)
You can recover a lot of details from shadow and highlight areas and process a photo to have the look that many HDR photos seem to have (overcooked, where it looks more like a special effect than an accurate representation of the scene or subject you photographed), but that doesn't mean you have an HDR photo. You're still working within the boundaries of what the camera was capable of capturing in a single exposure.
But if you have more source photos to work with, at various levels of exposure, you've got more actual dynamic range. And if you use HDR processing the way it should be used -- without the ridiculously cartoonish effects that are common with HDR -- your end result can simply be an accurate representation of what you shot, with the full spectrum of light that your eye was able to see. That's a lot more dynamic range than a single exposure could have contained, and that's why it really qualifies as an HDR image.
Clearly stated,. including the qualitative remarks on general HDR vulgarities!
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