Getting The HDR Look: Local Contrast Enhancement
Channel: Homebrew HDR
Date: 2021-05-28

Shooting in a staged environment with super high contrast or some spectacular location in bright sun is one thing, but how to we bring out more normal video?  How can we make a scene look on video more like it felt to see?  One method is by using the way we see contrast and saturation to enhance the visual impact of video.  Here I go through what enhanced local contrast is and what lies behind it.  The same effects can be done using layers or with plugins but I break it down using custom video processing scripts step by step.

This video was shot on the Fuji XT4 in Flog and processed into HDR then enhanced.