Android HDR - Salt Lake City Skyline

This was shot with the Fake HDR setting in Vignette. a fair job, not much different from the regular output of Vignette, but to be fair, I'd much rather have it be subtle then over the top.

A Manual "Auto" HDR

Still playing around with HDR. I did a manual merge in PicSayPro of three images. At this point the easiest way to do it is 3 separate exposures of the same image via Vignette (It's the only camera app I know with exposure control, even if it's just over/underexpose.)
I would have liked more from the dials but this was all I could get. I'll keep playing around with it.
Um, yes, that is a huge crack across my windshield.

Android HDR - Automatic

This is from an app I recently purchased called Camera 360. Overall the app is quite buggy and pretty average but it has some cool features, one of which is an automatic HDR (or High Dynamic Range) generator.
It doesn't seem to make a huge difference in the actual captured dynamic range but the color saturation is nice. I'll play with it more as the days go on. It's an intriguing feature.
Below is the original image as the camera shot it.

Android HDR - Utes Game Day

Another HDR image shot with Camera360. I still am not sure it's actually providing any more range. The darks seem at least as dark and the lights at least as light. Clearly it is upping the contrast and saturation to achieve a better image but the jury is still out on whether it represents actual HDR.
Of course, in this situation, there isn't much need for HDR because the light is pretty even and recordable, even for a tiny camera sensor.

Again, below is the image set to the default Cliq camera settings.

Android Mobile HDR? You got it.

Created with PicSay Pro on my Cliq. Single frame HDR image.

If you're not familiar with HDR it stands for High Dynamic Range. It's typically the process of using several exposures of the same scene and combining them to bring out the shadows and highlights to mimic the wide gamut of light that our eyes can see that the camera can not.
This is my first attempt at the process on my Android phone.
I used the photo editing app PicSayPro to make two different exposures of the same frame, one with the clouds clear and correctly exposed and the other with the mountains and foreground correctly exposed. I opened the first image (The foreground and mountatins) in PicSay Pro then tapped "Effects" then "Insert Picture".
I browsed for the second photo, selected it, and chose the entire photo for the crop.
You then have the option to erase portions of the photo. I used a soft brush to erase the mountains and foreground revealing the correctly exposed portions. Voila! Mobile HDR.
You could make as many layers as you wanted and get very detailed but there are limits in PicSayPro, especially in the output size of the image. All images are output at smaller than 1000 pixels on the longest side. That really limits the usability of the process for printing. The other limitation is the size of the screen vs. the size of my chubby fingers for erasing the top "mask" photo.
But it was a fun exercise and pretty cool result considering it was done on a cell phone while in line at In-N-Out.