The first "SmugMug Corner" photographer interview of 2012, sponsored by SmugMug.com, features HDR-specialist Frank C. Grace from Massachusetts. We've got over a dozen photos below, along with a great read. If you love HDR photography, you'll really enjoy browsing through this one...

Today’s ‘Photoshop Monday’ Video Corner looks at the popular technique simply known as “HDR” (High Dynamic Range). HDR is a technique that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight. The tutorial today uses Adobe Photoshop CS3, but the techniques used should work in Adobe Photoshop CS2 through CS4, and can also be duplicated in some other image processing programs.

If you have ever wanted to improve your digital photography then you may want to consider learning about High Dynamic Range. If you have heard of this term in digital photography, but are not sure what it is, then keep reading because it will serious change the way you look at your digital photography images. What High Dynamic range does in your digital photography is simultaneously lighten your underexposed areas and darken your overexposed areas. Working with your Dynamic Range will aim to create digital photography images as your own eye would see them; even light all over the scene.