Save 15% off Nik Software products using the discount code “ scottwyden” Save 20% off HDR Expose and 10% off 32 Float by using the discount code “ scottwyden” Save 15% off Photomatix by using the discount code “ ScottWyden15” For more discounts visit my dedicated discounts page. Below are some discount codes to help save you money on the final purchase. They all offer trials so make sure you try it before you buy it. Which is the best? It’s a matter of taste. Simple tone-mapping from three of the most popular HDR software’s on the market. I then brought the image back into Lightroom for last touch-ups including lens correction and noise reduction. After creating the base HDR, I brought the photo into Photoshop where I used Nik’s Silver Efex Pro and OnOne’s Photo Tools for further processing. Can you guess which of the tone-mapped photos I went with? I can give you a hint. So now is the time for me to share my final product. Note: 100% crop of people walking has been enhanced with brightness only which makes it easier to see the ghosting The Final Product Like HDR Expose, HDR Efex Pro has limited control over the de-ghosting in a scene. Looking at the people walking on the left, HDR Efex Pro did a horrible job at de-ghosting. You might look at this and say it looks great, but to me it does not. I could not get the processing just right so I decided to get it as close to how I wanted it as possible. The problem I was having was that HDR Efex Pro has very sensitive sliders. As you can see in the tone-mapped photo there is a lot of texture,detail, color and contrast that the application brought out. Note: 100% crop of people walking has been enhanced with brightness only which makes it easier to see the ghosting Nik Software - HDR Efex Pro (Version 1.0) HDR Efex Pro - Ghosting The new de-ghosting tool inside of Photomatix 4.0 is amazing. What stands out to me is the extra contrast and the perfect de-ghosting of the people walking on the left.
That can work to my advantage for the final processing of the image. The Photomatix version does have a bit more color in the tone-mapped photo. Similar to HDR Expose, the Photomatix version also is a bit “flat” but I was able to get the histogram to work for me considering that the brackets were so sloppy. Note: 100% crop of people walking has been enhanced with brightness only which makes it easier to see the ghosting HDR Soft - Photomatix (Version 4.0) Photomatix - Ghosting There is detail everywhere and although it seems a little “flat”, some further processing could really turn this into a great HDR. The dynamic range of the scene is really coming out.
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Considering that there is no real manual control over ghosting aside from automated de-ghosting, I am quite impressed. In the tone-mapped photo from HDR Expose you can see that it reduced the ghosting of the people on the left a lot. Unified Color - HDR Expose (Version 1.1.0 build 6703) HDR Expose - Ghosting No white balance, noise reduction or lens correction was used. The processing you will see in each of these photos is as clean as I could get the insanely difficult brackets to tone-map. Having movement in the scene typically means letting the ghosting remain in the final product or spend a good amount of time in Photoshop by masking the ghosts out. Ideally you want to photograph HDR brackets on a tripod. To top it off, there were moving people and vehicles in the scene. I was handholding the camera when I took the photos. I did not want to make it easy for the applications so I chose a set of three brackets. In this post I am going to show you the same set of brackets tone-mapped in Photomatix, HDR Efex Pro and HDR Expose. It goes to show you how popular HDR is becoming. More and more companies are coming out with HDR software. Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Email Share on SMS
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