With real HDR in the Photomatix software, there are two Tone Mapping techniques, one produces similar results to this shot (Tone Compressor), the other produces the really unreal results(Details Enhancer).
-Adam Ralf R. Radermacher wrote: > Looks af if DRI and HDR weren't quite the same. > > At least not in the software I'm using. Whereas HDR combines several > shots into a file with an enormous dynamic range which can neither be > printed nor viewed on a monitor with all this information and thus needs > another step called tone-mapping to be useable for screen or paper > output, DRI simply uses a clever masking technique to fill up the > blown-out highlights from the frames taken at the longer exposure times > with information extracted from those taken with shorter times. > > The results look in fact very different. This tone-mapping business > produces a very peculiar but inherently unnatural look which seems to be > all the rage in some circles, currently, while DRI can produce very > natural-looking results if applied sparingly. > > Here's a b/w example done with DRI: > > http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/770012/display/8015472 > > As usual, your comments are welcome. > > Ralf > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
