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This tutorial originally appeared in N-Photo, the monthly newsstand magazine for Nikon photographers. Affinity Photo 3-month trial and half-price offer until Ap(opens in new tab) About N-Photo magazine.Affinity Photo 1.8 review (opens in new tab).It’s best to use a tripod and cable release so the frames are in perfect alignment, but if you don’t have one you can get away with hand-holding – keep the camera as steady as possible and use a fast drive mode to shoot frames quickly. Here the contrast between sky and land is too great to be captured in a single frame, so we take a series of bracketed exposures. HDR photography begins in-camera by taking a set of exposures to record optimum detail in the brightest and darkest parts of a scene. When you’re happy, go to File > Export to export the image in a usable 8 or 16-bit format, like a JPEG or TIFF. We’ve removed some messy spots of sand in the foreground in our image. You can now finish off the image in the Photo persona. When you’re happy with your tone-mapping, hit Apply. (Image credit: James Paterson) (opens in new tab)

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