A system (300; 330) comprising: an image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) configured to capture images, an angular rate sensor (316; 344) that is attached to the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) and configured to measure changes in orientation of the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242), and a processing apparatus (312; 362) configured to: receive a short exposure image that was captured using the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242); receive a long exposure image that was captured using the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242), wherein the long exposure image was captured with a longer exposure time than the short exposure image; receive an angular rate measurement captured using the angular rate sensor (316; 344) during exposure of the long exposure image; determining a blur metric for an image portion based on the angular rate measurement, wherein the image portion is a block of one or more pixels that corresponds to less than a whole image, and the blur metric is proportional to a distance of the one or more pixels of the image portion from an axis of rotation for a rotation of the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) reflected in the angular rate measurement; and determine, based on the blur metric, whether to apply high dynamic range processing to the image portion of the short exposure image and the long exposure image. an image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) configured to capture images, an angular rate sensor (316; 344) that is attached to the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) and configured to measure changes in orientation of the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242), and a processing apparatus (312; 362) configured to: receive a short exposure image that was captured using the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242); receive a long exposure image that was captured using the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242), wherein the long exposure image was captured with a longer exposure time than the short exposure image; receive an angular rate measurement captured using the angular rate sensor (316; 344) during exposure of the long exposure image; determining a blur metric for an image portion based on the angular rate measurement, wherein the image portion is a block of one or more pixels that corresponds to less than a whole image, and the blur metric is proportional to a distance of the one or more pixels of the image portion from an axis of rotation for a rotation of the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) reflected in the angular rate measurement; and determine, based on the blur metric, whether to apply high dynamic range processing to the image portion of the short exposure image and the long exposure image. receive a short exposure image that was captured using the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242); receive a long exposure image that was captured using the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242), wherein the long exposure image was captured with a longer exposure time than the short exposure image; receive an angular rate measurement captured using the angular rate sensor (316; 344) during exposure of the long exposure image; determining a blur metric for an image portion based on the angular rate measurement, wherein the image portion is a block of one or more pixels that corresponds to less than a whole image, and the blur metric is proportional to a distance of the one or more pixels of the image portion from an axis of rotation for a rotation of the image sensor (314; 342; 240, 242) reflected in the angular rate measurement; and determine, based on the blur metric, whether to apply high dynamic range processing to the image portion of the short exposure image and the long exposure image.