

Since blues will often be darker than the other areas of your image, and more dark = the more noise when brightened. This means that Blue sections have to be enhanced or amplified to be exposed correctly compared to the reds and greens. Watch your blues! Digital camera sensors have a strange quirk about them where they are about 50% less sensitive to Blue Channel light than Red and Green.
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This means very subtle differences from exposure to exposure, but we’ll have a lot better information in the selection of RAW files for Aurora HDR software to work with. Typically we’ll shoot at least 5 in these situations and we’ll set the EV to +/- 1 step. This means in a lower light or very high contrast situation, you’ll want to shoot more than just 3 exposures.
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You’ll want to shoot enough brackets at as low an ISO as possible to properly capture every detail in the scene. Shooting a scene with 3 brackets at 100 ISO will leave you with a much cleaner image than when shot at 400 or higher. But keep in mind, using long exposures will also generate noise. Use a tripod, and try to get as clean a shot as possible. The most important trick here is to reduce your ISO to as low a level as possible. Here are two HDR photos with much noise in the sky: And, since HDR is all about enhancing those details, you get what you get! It’s confusing, but tone Mapping will often take little bits of grain and stray light, and treat them as fine details. However, when merged, the darker or noisy areas of the image will start stacking and will “grow” in relative ISO in multiples. Using 3 brackets that are 400 ISO each on their own, we'll get pretty clean images. So if you’ve got a few high ISO brackets, the resulting HDR image is going to be exponentially noisier than your starting points.

So how does this apply to HDR images? The very nature of Tone Mapping and HDR tends to amplify existing noise in your image. Simply put, the higher your ISO, the stronger the presence of noise in your image. Noise is nearly unavoidable in digital photography unless you’ve got the absolute perfect lighting conditions and you can use the absolute lowest ISO setting on your camera possible! This is due to the sensor design of digital cameras, and in bad light or high ISO situations, will leave you with grainy or strangely colored dots and patches throughout your whole photograph.
