HDR FX Pro

ByMike Moffit

My dog Ziggy is my favorite subject to photograph and one of the best tips I can give for pet photography is to get the camera down to your subjects level. It gives your dog a chance to look directly into the camera instead of always looking up at you. I must admit that my husky build doesn’t always lend itself to quickly bending in half or dropping to the floor to capture a shot. A lot (most) of the time, I will simply drop my camera hand down as low as possible and start snapping pictures without ever looking to see what I am actually shooting.

I mean honestly, now that everything has moved to digital and there is no film to waste I don’t really care if I have thirty six bad shots to one good one. I simply delete the photographs I don’t want and work with the ones that I like. One of the problems that I do run into however since I am not really focusing on the subject is that a lot of the pictures come out darker than I would like. One of the apps that I like to use to lighten my photographs is HDR FX Pro.

I prefer to take photographs using the regular camera and then importing them into HDR FX Pro (or whichever app I am using) rather than taking the photograph using the App – this way I always have an original I can revert back to. HDR FX Pro seems to have been designed specifically for scenery photography but can be used with any subject. My favorite feature on this app is that once you have selected the photograph you wish to alter it is imported into the program and you are taken to a screen that allows you to see the the photograph side by side with different filters applied. HDR FX Pro also has a feature that allows you to revert back to the original photograph to see the changes at the filter you are applying makes to the shot.

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