HDR balance — both sides of the glass, properly exposed.

The room exposed correctly, so the windows blew out to paper white. Or the windows exposed correctly, so the room dropped into shadow. HDR balance rebuilds the photograph as if the camera had a wider dynamic range — recovering window detail and lifting the interior shadows at the same time, in one frame.

Unlike a tone-mapped HDR composite, this reads as a single well-exposed photograph. No painted halos around window frames, no posterised midtones, no cartoon look.

1. Each window is recovered independently — different windows can show different exteriors, never a single uniform sky.
2. Interior shadows lift to a listing-grade level without flattening corners or under-furniture shadows.
3. Existing white balance is preserved by default — no warm-tone "real estate" filter applied unintentionally.
4. Specular highlights on glossy surfaces stay where the camera saw them; their shape and location are not redrawn.
5. No haloing around window frames, no posterisation, no surreal local contrast — the photograph still reads as a photograph.

Hi-res JPG paired with the original. The manifest notes the strength setting and which operations were applied (window recovery, shadow lift, white-balance preservation).

Used inside the New Listing Kickoff run as a baseline exposure pass — applied to every interior frame with a visible window before any styled tool touches the photograph.

Read the studio note on dynamic range that reads as a photograph — not a tonemap, not a composite, just a frame that exposed for both sides of the glass.