Comments on: HDR http://www.andipantz.com/hdr/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:52:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Mike Panic http://www.andipantz.com/hdr/#comment-97 Mike Panic Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:07:05 +0000 http://www.andipantz.com/hdr/#comment-97 My 2 pennies, for what they are worth. HDR should only be used when it needs to be - there aren't strong enough bright & dark area's in this image to really show what it can do, all the HDR effect did was create the dreaded halo. There are also a few thoughts on how to create the proper file, one is to shoot multiple exposures of the same shot, on a tripod - really hard to do with people. The second is to bracket expose in camera and combine later. The last is to take one RAW file and process it 6-10 times to get your exposure latitude and then do HDR with those TIF files. I've played around with PhotoMatix which does a decent job of creating an HDR image from a single RAW file all in one easy step, but I still think that HDR should be saved for those images from which it will benefit from. I really like the photo, the HDR doesn't do anything for it though. My 2 pennies, for what they are worth. HDR should only be used when it needs to be - there aren’t strong enough bright & dark area’s in this image to really show what it can do, all the HDR effect did was create the dreaded halo.

There are also a few thoughts on how to create the proper file, one is to shoot multiple exposures of the same shot, on a tripod - really hard to do with people. The second is to bracket expose in camera and combine later. The last is to take one RAW file and process it 6-10 times to get your exposure latitude and then do HDR with those TIF files.

I’ve played around with PhotoMatix which does a decent job of creating an HDR image from a single RAW file all in one easy step, but I still think that HDR should be saved for those images from which it will benefit from. I really like the photo, the HDR doesn’t do anything for it though.

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