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Best HDR Software?
scrappydog:
Add another vote for Enfuse. I have been testing HDR software this weekend (i.e., NIK, Photomatix) and gave Enfuse a try via the command line executable. Best results of the bunch. Very natural look. Not a good solution if you are into heavily processed HDR shots.
Rienzphotoz:
--- Quote from: wickidwombat on January 11, 2013, 02:01:19 AM ---photomatix is mostly crap IMO or possibly too often abused causing heavily over cooked images
LR enfuse is an awesome awesome plugin for inside lightroom
there are some standalone enfuse programs
enfuse is and open source program and is more like an advanced exposure blending algorythm rather than the pure "HDR" that creates a radiance file and then applies false tone mapping to the image
No god awefull halos and cartoon like colour shifts, and it produces much more natural images.
although having said that photomatix can work quite well with night scenes if done right
I've been meaning to try a hybrid combination between an LR enfuse with a photomatix processed image blended into certain areas I think this could work out quite nicely
i've attached an enfuse sample
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AWSOME pic ... will have to give LR enfuse a try ... thanks for sharing
mycanonphotos:
--- Quote from: The_Arsonist on January 12, 2013, 06:02:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: wickidwombat on January 11, 2013, 02:01:19 AM ---photomatix is mostly crap IMO or possibly too often abused causing heavily over cooked images
LR enfuse is an awesome awesome plugin for inside lightroom
there are some standalone enfuse programs
enfuse is and open source program and is more like an advanced exposure blending algorythm rather than the pure "HDR" that creates a radiance file and then applies false tone mapping to the image
No god awefull halos and cartoon like colour shifts, and it produces much more natural images.
although having said that photomatix can work quite well with night scenes if done right
I've been meaning to try a hybrid combination between an LR enfuse with a photomatix processed image blended into certain areas I think this could work out quite nicely
i've attached an enfuse sample
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Thanks for the tip. Enfuse works great when I just want to quickly combine exposures to bring out the shadows and bring down the highlights
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There are a lots of programs out there now made for doing HDR. None of them are CRAP in my opinion... what matters most is what you are trying to accomplish with that program for YOUR photographs and getting the output you so desire... Some are better for different reasons and will process data differently. One of the things that it comes down to is garbage in garbage out...
anthonyd:
LuminanceHDR http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ is an open source software (which means free as in "free speech" and free as in "free beer") that works pretty well. It has some quirks and it might be a little confusing when you first start, but that's what I've used for all my HDR pictures and it has served me well whether I went for a cartoonish look, or realistic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29321561@N06/sets/72157606594716451/with/2738399193/
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