HDR means High Dynamic Range. Unlike the human eye, your camera sensors are limited on the amount of dynamic range that it can record. Basically, Dynamic range is the varying degree of light you can record at specific camera settings. For example:in normal photographyif you expose to capture a bright orange sunset, then the landscape in the forground will be solid black; or if you expose for the forground then the sunset will be blown out. So. High Dynamic Range photography is when you take multiple exposures of the same image at different exposure levels and then combine those images with special software. Thisallows you to see the darker details of the foreground without losing thebright rich colors of the example sunset.----With all of that said, this technique takes practice. If you are interested in learning more there are several websites that can help----including this one. I would suggest visting the Photomatix website at http://www.hdrsoft.com/ this is the software that many people use for thier HDR photography. It also has a trial download available and a much better explaination of HDR than the one I provided.


By the way, the only stupid question is the one that isn't asked. My guess is that almost everyone on this forum has asked the same question at least once in thier photography career, so you keep asking questions.


Good luck,


Bob