So in an effort to understand what HDR means for our phones, i found this article about what the HDR setting means on iPhones.
What HDR means for iPhone photos | Phones | Digital Photo | Macworld
Here are the pieces from that article that both answered my questions but raised 1 important question about ours.
"A high dynamic range image combines a series of photographs, each shot at a different exposure: underexposed where everything is darker, overexposed where it's lighter, and properly exposed in the middle. The best parts of these images are put together into one shot that brings out details in both the shadows and the highlights?information that would normally be lost in a single exposure though visible to the human eye."
"There are a number third-party of HDR apps already available in the App store, but they typically only combine two photos together, not three. Some only take one photo and then add a filter to mimic the HDR look"
"Apple's version of HDR combines three images taken with the iPhone's back camera in quick succession."
SOOOO... My question now is, does anyone know what our HDR feature does? Does it take 2 pictures, 3 pictures or just 1 picture and layover a filter to mimic the HDR look?