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Don't know about software, but this is one of the better HDR renderings I've seen recently. All to many look way overbaked. Yours doesn't as much, except maybe for a bit too much pop in the sky.
So I have been playing around a bit with HDR, this image is from 9 exposures.
I'm using NIK Software's HDR Efex Pro 2, which is about 7 years old. I am wondering what are folks using today, is NIK HDR Efex Pro 4 the best option out there or are there other options?
Sam
developer of Photo Parata the event presentation software
http://www.miltonstreet.com
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+1Don't know about software, but this is one of the better HDR renderings I've seen recently. All to many look way overbaked. Yours doesn't as much, except maybe for a bit too much pop in the sky.
So I have been playing around a bit with HDR, this image is from 9 exposures.
I'm using NIK Software's HDR Efex Pro 2, which is about 7 years old. I am wondering what are folks using today, is NIK HDR Efex Pro 4 the best option out there or are there other options?
Sam
developer of Photo Parata the event presentation software
http://www.miltonstreet.com
Very nice. How many stops apart was each photo? I like Aurora HDR. It has an almost overwhelming variety of powerful HDR sliders and is also a powerful raw file developer in its own right. You can use layers for local adjustments, including local HSL adjustments, which I cannot figure out how to do in Lightroom. There's not much Lightroom can do that Aurora HDR cannot.
So I have been playing around a bit with HDR, this image is from 9 exposures.
I'm using NIK Software's HDR Efex Pro 2, which is about 7 years old. I am wondering what are folks using today, is NIK HDR Efex Pro 4 the best option out there or are there other options?
Sam
developer of Photo Parata the event presentation software
http://www.miltonstreet.com
9 exposures, 1 stop apart
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Thank you SO much for asking where it was taken. I have a Sony a6500 that needs to get GPS coordinates from the phone and it failed to do that for these images. I was able to find the general location and set the location for future reference. It was Cleveland Gulch, Colorado.
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Now that you put it that way, that makes sense. Thank you for that bit of info! As one that always loved math, and being a software developer, I would love to know how they do the tonemapping
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In my opinion, tone mapping is a simultaneously vague and overly specific term. Since all tones in any image must be mapped to the final values, i.e. tone-mapped, there is no reason the term should be synonymous with HDR imaging. "Tone mapping", referring to HDR imaging, may refer to local operators, in which case it's actually spatial or frequency filtration. Or it may refer to something entirely different. I have no idea what the term is supposed to mean. But there's an article in Wikipedia for anyone who wants to figure it out.
True. The right use of various 'standard' adjustments may well get the same results as Tonemapping.
For what it's worth, except for the sun in the photo, I wouldn't know that the OP's photo is an HDR photo. In this picture I actually like the strong local contrast, including the contrast in the sky.
That's my second choice. It seems especially focused on real estate interior shots, considering the number of presets for that.
I think 'HDR' has been hijacked by those who 'like' the nuclear look. HDR and tonemapping aren't being used as intended by 'most' folks. As I see it too many HDR/Tanemapped images are to 'flat'. Folks try to lift all the details in the shadows. That's ok but in reality the real world isn't like that. There are always details hidden in the shadows and blown out details in the sky and reflections.
