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This is the before-and-after comparison of “Matthias Church – Budapest, Hungary (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 15 source [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Baroque Oval – Ludwigsburg Palace, Germany (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 5×5 TIFF files (series of 5 autobracketed RAW images, +2, 0, -2ev that were converted to TIFFs using Abobe Camera RAW with the Five TIFFs method). You can see the 15 [...]
You start the process of creating a tone-mapped LDR image by merging all your source images into a single 32-bit HDR image. We all know that. Maybe you have done this already very often, and probably you think that there is not much to think about when you do this. Right? Even more [...]
View the final result: The Boat – Ko Panyi, Thailand (HDR)
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This video is available in HD (1080p). Click the “YouTube” button to the lower right of the player above to go to the original video to watch it in HD. Important: You will have to switch the player to “1080p” to [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Sunset Gate (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a standard 3-shot autobracketing series with +2, 0 and -2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the result of [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Church of Sts. Peter and Paul (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a standard 3-shot autobracketing series with +2, 0 and -2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of “Michelangelo’s Dome – St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican (HDR Vertorama)“. The final image was created from 6×3 RAW files (series of 6 autobracketed shots, +2, 0, -2ev) which you can see in the left three columns. These 18 source shots were merged into 6 32-bit HDRs with Photomatix [...]
This is the before-and-after comparison of the HDR image “No. 45 (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 3-shot autobracketing series with +2, 0 and -2 ev. On the left side of the bottom row, you see the [...]
This is the before and after comparison of “Place du Carrousel – Paris, France (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a 3-shot autobracketing series with +2, 0 and -2 ev. On the left side of the bottom row, [...]
This is the before and after comparison of “Merano Panorama – Merano, Italy (HDR)“. The final image was created from 4×3 files (series of 4 autobracketed shots, +2, 0, -2ev) which you can see in the top three rows. These source shots were merged into 32-bit HDRs with Photomatix Pro 3.2 which where [...]
This is the before and after comparison of ““James Bond” Rock – Panorama – Phang Nga, Thailand (HDR)“. The final image was stitched from 9 RAW files and then tone-mapped and post-processed. In the top row, you see the original source images straight [...]
This is the before and after comparison of “The Wormhole (Exposure Fusion)“. While this is technically not an HDR but an exposure fusion, it was still created through a similar process from three individual source shots. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image [...]
This is the before and after comparison of “The Virgin (HDR)“. In the top row, you see the original source images straight out of the camera. This image is based on a standard 3-shot autobracketing series with +2, 0 and -2 ev. On the left side on the bottom row, you see the [...]
View the final result: Natural History Museum – London, United Kingdom (HDR)
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View the final result: St. John’s Co-Cathedral – Valletta, Malta (HDR Vertorama)
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This is the first making of video of my HDR processing. You will also find this video in my flickr stream. I decided to publish such material outside of flickr using other services that offer more features and flexibility.
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In this section, I will describe my general HDR workflow. I will not go into the details as these will be discussed in other sections. Once you have shot the photos out in the field, the HDR work really only starts. I know what you think: “He’s right! You still have to run the shots [...]
The HDR process can lead to uneven luminance in areas of the image that are really supposed to have a very even look. The most prominent example of this is the sky: If you have blue sky with an occasional cloud in it, and if you used some more aggressive tonemapping settings, the [...]
One of the biggest problems in the HDR process today are halos. Halos are most obvious on high-contrast edges where a darker area and a lighter area meet each other. You mostly see them where the sky meets buildings, trees, rocks etc. There are ways of avoiding halos by applying only moderate tone [...]
HDR processing is renowned for producing a lot of noise due to the amplification of the local contrast. Therefore, noise reduction is a vital step in your post-processing work. There are different philosophies as to whether noise reduction should be applied at the very start or at the very end of the whole [...]
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