One major problem with most digital cameras is that they cannot capture every tone in a bright, high contrast scene - which is why you often see pale washed-out skies instead of the deep blues we remember, or dark, moody landscapes instead of glorious detail.  

HDR or high dynamic image making is a technique originally developed in the scientific community to record a wider range of tones in a photographic image than is normally possible from a single frame.Learn how to set up your camera to do this, how to choose the best software for post-processing, and how to troubleshoot your editing when the result is not exactly the way you wanted it to be ...