{"id":9958,"date":"2012-10-24T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=9958"},"modified":"2022-03-10T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:36:15","slug":"beyond-ettr-hdr-tonemapping-32-bit-in-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9958\/beyond-ettr-hdr-tonemapping-32-bit-in-lightroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond ETTR &#038; HDR Tonemapping \u2013 32 Bit In Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/32bitLightroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9960\" title=\"32bitLightroom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/32bitLightroom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arctic-images.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image by Ragnar th Sigurdsson.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To one degree or another, we&#8217;ve all been underexposing our digital photographs, even if we&#8217;ve been exposing to the right (ETTR).\u00a0Imagine a day when every \u0192-stop had as much data as the lightest \u0192-stop. It&#8217;s here now. Here&#8217;s how.<\/p>\n<p>Make a series of bracketed exposures where each \u0192-stop in a scene is placed in the far right of the histogram or recorded with half the data in a single digital file.\u00a0Combine all the exposures into a single 32-bit file using either the Merge To HDR Pro feature in Adobe Bridge\/Photoshop or Lightroom.\u00a0Save or import this 32-bit file into Lightroom (4 or higher) and apply adjustments with its Develop module to avoid many common tone-mapping artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>You may be surprised to find that you\u2019ll benefit from using this technique even for images with significantly more restrained dynamic ranges.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalphotopro.com\/revolution\/beyond-ettr-and-hdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read more on Digital Photo Pro.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/workshops\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Ragnar th Sigurdsson. To one degree or another, we&#8217;ve all been underexposing our digital photographs, even if we&#8217;ve been exposing to the right (ETTR).\u00a0Imagine a day when every \u0192-stop had as much data as the lightest \u0192-stop. It&#8217;s here now. Here&#8217;s how. 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