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Just curious if any of you have been experimenting with the new HDR tool. So far I have been very disappointed in the results… The images are coming out rather muddy and with odd colors that look like they have been brightened or darken too much…
Any thought, tips or guidelines how to get the best out of this tool?
My first analysis/theory is that it prefers a very dark and one very bright image at each end of the tonal range. On studying the examples in the video tutorial that comes with CS2, the extreme exposures are way, way more extreme that I would normally consider trying (as there wasn’t any point to doing that before). Without that it doesn’t have much to work with. In other words if the base images are too close in terms of exposure the tonal range isn’t wide enough to start with.
I also suspect that 2 stop exposure compensation is more useful than 1-stop exposure compensations.
Also, one image I was working on has very specific hot spots from the sun on a waterfall with the rest of the image pretty much in shadows. The shadows looked terrible (muddy) and the hot spot remained blown out no matter what I did with the 32-bit to 16-bit conversion…
Any insights and advice are appreciated!
Any thought, tips or guidelines how to get the best out of this tool?
My first analysis/theory is that it prefers a very dark and one very bright image at each end of the tonal range. On studying the examples in the video tutorial that comes with CS2, the extreme exposures are way, way more extreme that I would normally consider trying (as there wasn’t any point to doing that before). Without that it doesn’t have much to work with. In other words if the base images are too close in terms of exposure the tonal range isn’t wide enough to start with.
I also suspect that 2 stop exposure compensation is more useful than 1-stop exposure compensations.
Also, one image I was working on has very specific hot spots from the sun on a waterfall with the rest of the image pretty much in shadows. The shadows looked terrible (muddy) and the hot spot remained blown out no matter what I did with the 32-bit to 16-bit conversion…
Any insights and advice are appreciated!
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