by LSP on Apr.15, 2010, under HDR, Sydney, Urban
I got the PHOTOMATIX PRO software a while back but havent had a chance to really test it out until recently.
So I have been trying out some HDR shoots around my new favourite part of the city, just north of the bridge. So far I think that the more the light changes (from day to night for eg) and the more images that are blended, the more interesting the results.
There is obviously too much ghosting around the bridge in the first two shots but the software is pretty good at auto blending and tone mapping the images together, better than my version of Photoshop anyway. The best current HDR techniques still involve huge amounts of time spent manually masking the layers together which I’m not keen on so I hope this can be a good alternative. Photomatix isnt as good as the human eye but it is considerably quicker and, with some more time and research, will certainly get better.
4 shot blend
3 shot blend
14 shot blend
6 shot blend
April 15th, 2010 on 6:51 am
dunno man, think they look pretty shite. Try and turn the saturation down a lot and they should be a little better. What lesn are they shot with?
April 15th, 2010 on 3:36 pm
Thanks for your honest opinion there brov…
The main problem I’m finding is that what I see in the preview window in Photomatix is not what it pumps out the other end. So until I understand the software better its a case of picking some settings (of which there are a LOT) and seeing what comes out… Lens was a Canon 10-22mm
April 16th, 2010 on 12:23 am
the third shot is stunning!