I've recently been playing with the HDR capabilities of darktable, with my basis of information being the blog post here: http://www.darktable.org/2012/10/process-hdr-images-using-darktable/
The results are much nicer, and much less of an unnatural "effect", than I was ever able to achieve in the past with other methods (enblend/enfuse, etc.). Now that I don't hate HDR pictures as much, I'm curious about a few things: When using the "create HDR" button in lighttable view to merge a few bracketed raw files, what (if any) processing of the raw files becomes part of the produced .dng file? And should I be manually disabling any auto-applied modules when loading that file, as implied in the above blog post? The image seems to benefit from the auto-applied base curve; should I be getting that tonal boost somewhere else in the pipeline when doing HDR processing? Also, is using "global tonemap" + "local contrast" actually very much different from using the "tone mapping" module? I don't doubt that it is, but exactly how so isn't obvious to me from my experiments so far. I'm just curious, and further experimenting with both methods may answer my question, but if there's an easy answer, it might make me feel less stupid faster. ;) As always, thanks for the great software. P.S. - I also noticed that there are no tooltips for the controls on the "local contrast" and "tone mapping" modules, in case that's been overlooked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
