Simulating HDR exposures in Camera Raw

One of the most common questions I get about HDR Pro, is can you fool it?…In another words, instead of actually shooting authentic multiple exposures.…Can you fabricate exposures inside say, Camera Raw?…And then convince HDR Pro to use them.…And the answer is yes.…So for example, I shot this photograph in Ireland at Giant's Causeway.…And I had only had the camera about a week,…so I didn't know how to use the bracketing feature yet.…And even if I had, it wouldn't've done me…much good, because I was shooting this moving ocean.…

So what I decided to do was fabricate a series of exposures,…starting with very bright and then moving on through the starker exposures here.…And then I stitched them all together using HDR Pro…in order to create this more dynamic version of the photograph.…And here's how…it works.…I'll go up to the file menu and choose browse in Bridge in order…to switch to Bridge, which is trained…on the contents of the Giants Causeway folder.…And you can see that I have a total of 5 variations on this DNG file.…