1) I go out side - take the photo of the area I want to place the subject in. 2) No tripod so I take one photo as wide as I can - but of what - the stuff in front of subject spot or the stuff behind. And I got a cool panoramic mode on this camera and it really does work - is that worth doing. 3) Take photo in to photoshop - And how do you duplicate exposures in photoshop and this "merge to hdri" button. hey check out this link https://www.talkingtree.com/blog/inde...ake-hdr-images