Comments on: HDR Tidbits (links, news, inspiration)

By: Alex the Photo Guy

Alex the Photo Guy — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:08:27 +0000

FYI- Dynamic Photo HDR now has a Mac option- but it says it’s only for the intel-based Mac OS. I assume Matt’s running a true mac though…

By: Jean-Yves GRUFFAT

Jean-Yves GRUFFAT — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:14:11 +0000

Hello from France,
I’ve been looking at the podcast “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer tips” for several months : It’s one of my favorite.
When I saw this episode appearing in the list of the episodes, I wonder what Lightroom has to do with HDR…
Well, in fact, I don’t learn something from the use of Lightroom (sorry ) but, Matt, you showed me an other software for HDR : Photomatix. It’s your favorite : well, now, it’s mine too !!! I’ve tried it with some test pictures : the result was what I expected !
I’ve used the one that in Photoshop and FDRtools (http://www.fdrtools.com). Both give fairly good results, but Photomatix suits me better, now.
Thanks & best regards.
Jean-Yves Gruffat

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:11:30 +0000

Bridget said,
“on June 18th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Hi Matt,
I’m an international member of NAPP.
I’ve tried on the Photomatix website but no succes.
The 20% discount doesn’t seem to aply for international members.”

Following on from Bridgets comment, I too am an international member of NAPP and the discount worked fine for me. Just inserted the code into the appropriate field on the order page and did a recalculate. There it was.

Am now trying to get close to some of the HDR photos I am seeing you guys do from the links here.
Thanks
John

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:57:05 +0000

Hi there.
Just had to comment;
took a link from Amit’s comments at the top of the page and then another from that link to http://www.cambridgeincolour.com.
I have just spent an hour browsing through this site.
Take a look - he’s good, and very generous in sharing his techniques.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:38:27 +0000

Hi Matt,
I’m an international member of NAPP.
I’ve tried on the Photomatix website but no succes.
The 20% discount doesn’t seem to aply for international members.

By: Tim Lees

Tim Lees — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:28:42 +0000

Hi Matt,

I too found found that Dynamic Photo HDR to produce excellent results. The manual alignment capability allows images to be aligned precisely, even when a tripod has not been used. The presets and filters can produce dramatic results, including black and white.

If anyone is interested, they can see some examples here: http://www.timlees.co.uk/p592147117/

Another useful program on a similar vein is Startrails (www.startrails.de). This allows stacking of multiple exposures like this (http://www.timlees.co.uk/p849271463/?photo=h2F5C0526#794559782)

Thanks for all your work in producing these informative videos.

Tim

By: Jacob Rosenfeld

Jacob Rosenfeld — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:33:40 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for clearing up some of the confusion surrounding HDR. I am starting to use HDR for some real estate photography. Have you tried out an app called Bracketeer? It’s an OS X UI for the Enfuse engine. I’ve tested it for a while, and while it has fewer controls, it seems to produce better results than Photomatix… plus it’s only $29.

Check it out.
http://www.pangeasoft.net/pano/bracketeer/index.html

By: Rob Yelland

Rob Yelland — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:59:57 +0000

Thanks for the excellent tutorial. Regarding auto-bracketing…it works well to shoot in burst mode as fast as the camera will shoot minimize misalignment (if not using a tripod). Images can then be stacked accordingly in Lightroom using Photo>Stacking>Auto Stack by Capture Time. Setting the Time Between Stacks to 3 seconds seems to work well. Then go back to Photo>Stacking>Collapse All Stacks to clean up your desktop. Stacking only seems to work when looking at “All Photographs” and won’t work with a collection…not real logical.
Rob

By: Roger Edwards

Roger Edwards — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:38:05 +0000

Matt, thanks for the HDR posts, very valuable. I’m trying both Photomatix and Dynamic Photo HDR. Dynamic Photo HDR seems to provide more control, but I find Photomatix more intuitive and I get better results. Maybe this is just a learning curve; and I’ll continue to try them both. Also, the view of the image you’re working on is larger in Photomatix, making it easier to see the changes you’re making.

Thanks again, hope you continue to talk about HDR regularly.

By: Terry Reinert

Terry Reinert — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:43:37 +0000

I have a lot of HDR landscapes on my blog as well. The first real exposure to HDR photography for me came at Photoshop World 2008 in Orlando. I took Ben Willmore’s class on it and have been having a blast with it. I highly recommend his class and DVD’s to anyone interested in doing any HDR work. It is well worth the time and money.

Take a look if you have time… http://www.tkrphoto.com... Don’t make me call V on you.