Can’t I just take one image in RAW mode and use Adobe Camera RAW to generate my three or more bracketed images for HDR merge?
Sure, you could do that… as long as you don’t mind the majority of your resulting HDR images looking like crap. I know I will catch a lot of flak for that statement but I will make up for it a little bit by saying that I have seen some great results from single RAW HDR images. However, the majority of those were post processed in Photoshop to a large degree to make them much better than they were coming out of the tone mapping process. The fact of the matter is that using a single image to create multiple exposures in Camera RAW does not result in a true high dynamic range image. This argument goes back and forth and I really don’t care to get involved with it too much since mathematics and physics do not lie and that is what I use to make up my mind. Any image generated from a single image is NOT HDR. It is a fake HDR since there is no true high dynamic range! But I will say that the end result is what matters… if a single RAW HDR looks great then it worked! I am just stating that the
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