Mobile HDR Images

Simply, High Dynamic Range Images(Imaging). Sucession of images are taken one after the other in varying luminance. Images are then processed and combined to form a single image that tries to reproduce accurate lighting condition to the scene when the image is captured. Keyword here is "tries", in mobile space, the smartphone camera is going to be sucky compare to digital cameras so there will always be a limit of how good HDR will turn out on mobile devices.

The images below are captured with the iPhone 3GS using the Pro HDR app.

Without HDR

With HDR

Without HDR

With HDR

Quality wise, it is a drastic improvement from the normal image capture via the smartphone platform. However, the main disadvantage is that it is a slow process on the 3GS. On the iPhone 4, the feature is inbuilt with the iOS 4.1 upgrade, for 3GS users, u can still can get HDR photos via the App store by purchasing Apps such as Pro HDR.