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Experiments with Vibrance HDR

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I've been using the Vibrance HDR app for a few weeks now, and though it is fairly simplistic in its offerings, it does the job quite well, actually, and I highly commend the app developer for making such a reliable app that gets the job done  in under 10 MB! The app is built to work well with OpenCamera's Exposure Bracketing option, although I've successfully been able to get it to process images taken by my DSLR as well. It can support up to 7 different exposures to create a working HDR image; however, this depends on your phone's specs. My phone unfortunately doesn't have a lot of RAM (only 2 GBs) so I was limited to the minimum of just three. Still, it accomplishes what it sets out to do: be a true HDR app that merges exposures (rather than the "fake HDR" method of applying whacky filters) with not too many extras. There are some basic post-processing sliders you can use to adjust the image, but it doesn't beat further editing in a proper image ed...