Editing to make photos look very high definition

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Hi everyone,

I keep saying photos (including photos taken at night) that look very very high definiiton, so high that you could almost think and AI made it. I don't seem to be able to replicatre the result with Lightroom. The equirement is probably much better than mine but am I missing any trick? Maybe Photoshop is a better tool for this?
 
Hello Camille.

Can you explain a little more what you mean? I'm just wondering exactly what you mean as if these pictures are online they may actually not be that high definition.
 
cfg said:
Hi everyone,

I keep saying photos (including photos taken at night) that look very very high definiiton, so high that you could almost think and AI made it. I don't seem to be able to replicatre the result with Lightroom. The equirement is probably much better than mine but am I missing any trick? Maybe Photoshop is a better tool for this?
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Why would you want to make a photograph look as if it was AI generated.
 
Buy a Canon 5D MK3 , You can do HDR in the menue options.
 
Eucris said:
Why would you want to make a photograph look as if it was AI generated.
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I'm more interested in understanding how to achieve maximum definition and use it appropriately, rather than doing it indiscriminately.
 
cfg said:
I'm more interested in understanding how to achieve maximum definition and use it appropriately, rather than doing it indiscriminately.
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I would guess either HDR specific software, or exposure blending.
Plenty of tube tutorials about on the subject.
 
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Thanks you all for your replies! I will find some specific example but tipically stock photos.
 
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cfg said:
Thanks you all for your replies! I will find some specific example but tipically stock photos.
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It would be helpful to provide a link so we can see what you mean, as @andrewc suggested. It's not clear whether you mean highly detailed, high contrast or high dynamic range (HDR).

I appreciate English may not be your first language, so please be patient with us as we try to understand. :)
 
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The first thought that springs to my mind is contrast - I was heavily influenced years ago by seeing the subjective effect of high definition/low contrast compared with low definition/high contrast. The higher contrast was clearly sharper... An illustration of things not always being as they seem.

There is a darkroom trick to make things look sharper, called unsharp masking. Photoshop copied this method, under the same name. It relies on the same trick that some black and white developers (I'm a film not digital black and white photographer) use to enhance sharpness, but adding an edge effect - a small "halo" if you like of enhanced contrast around the edges of objects. I can cite the developer characteristics if you'd like to Google them, even though not relevant directly to digital photography as the effects and how they are achieved are usually well explained on line.
 
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