Re: Combining exposures to increase range

Lensman wrote:

Just FYI - I found a program called Photomatix Pro (hdrsoft.com) that
does what I'm looking for. Takes any number of images and produces a
HDR image from them It will also automatically do tone mapping and
several other adjustments. The results are pretty impressive (at least
to me). Would be interested in other opinions.

Have a look at http://www.pitapeople.com/pauletta/kitchencloseup.jpg.
This was created using 9 exposures and some minor adjustments in PS CS2
(exposure and lens correction for wide-angle distortion). The image is
1.5 MB so download may take a couple seconds.

Doesn't CS2 have HDR?

Those results look good and that's really tough to do a blown window like that manually though I agree it seems to have gone a bit soft. I do lots of contrast merging with 2 versions of the raw conversion and manually mask areas with a broad brush eraser in CS but that's for landscapes where a soft dodge & burn approach works fine. The little bit of HDR I've seen with landscapes looks unnatural, so I prefer manual but your example looks great.
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