Approach for camera control

A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor executing a program to perform back-end operations for control of a camera, by performing the steps of:

• receiving a user edit via a user interface device that displays an interpretation of a scene at which a camera lens of the camera is pointing, wherein the user edit is based on user input that is associated with a selection region on the user interface device;
• generating an edits mask based on one or more matching image patches, which are based on the user edit and a high dynamic range (HDR) image generated by the camera;
• performing one or more tone mapping operations based on the edits mask and the HDR image in order to generate a tone mapped HDR image;
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• performing one or more metering operations based on the edits mask and the tone mapped HDR image in order to generate metering parameters for frame capturing operations.