[HDR-photo] HDRI Book and Jpeg brackets

[Wayne Roth]

Hi,

 

I current use Photomatix and CS3 to produce HDR shoots.  I am not familiar
with Dynamic HDR software, what advantage does it offer over using
Photomatix?  Can you get better results from combining the two software
programs?   

 

Also just an FYI, Ben Wilmore has an HDR online course at Xtrain.com if
anyone is interested.

 

Thanks for the advice.

 

Wayne

 

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From: hdr-photo-bounces at hdr-photography.com
[mailto:hdr-photo-bounces at hdr-photography.com] On Behalf Of Perry Frantzman
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 2:13 PM
To: High Dynamic Range Photography
Subject: Re: [HDR-photo] HDRI Book and Jpeg brackets

 

I too shoot Pano and HDR.

I shoot in RAW

Process in Photomatix than stitch in PTGui and than adjust the finished
through Dynamic HDR and finish with LightZone.

The Dynamic HDR does not handle ghosting as well as Photomatix but the
processing through Dynamic HDR allows me more wow.

I have been experimenting with shooting with RAW and than processing the 0
EV through Dynamic HDR and than Lightzone.

Be Well

Perry

PS.

Just received the book from Amazon in the mail even though an email informed
me that it would be due in December.

 

On 11/24/07, Sam Kittner <sam at kittner.com> wrote: 

Firstly, I want to thank Christian Bloch for his outstanding and engaging
HDRI handbook.  It's a super resource. 

As someone who has been working on hdr and panos for just about a year, the
book confirmed many things I have been

doing and opened doors of understanding to many things I haven't been sure
about.  I really appreciate the workflow examples by

Dieter Bethke and Uwe Steinmuller...as well as Bernhard Vogl's contributions
to the pano chapter.  Many thanks to them all.


 

One interesting item I found in the pano section was the hint to shoot the
bracketed images in jpeg format (yes, with all in-camera processing options

turned off).  I have been shooting raw format (nefs) since I began shooting
digital in 2001, primarily for the flexibility of the file adjustment.

For my pano work I have shot raw...making no adjustment to the raw
files...then convert to tiffs (yes, storage space nightmare (I often shoot a
pano scene though dawn or dust and come away with hundreds of
exposures))...then work with the tiffs to get the hdr and tone-mapped tiffs
to stich. 


 

But I can see the reasoning behind shooting the hdr intended images as jpegs
to save storage space and, as importantly in many situations with movement
issues, the faster write speed...therefore the ability to shoot the pano
faster...the jpegs then are used to create the hdr and resulting tone-mapped
tiffs for further image editing. 


 

Does anyone see reasons not to shoot hdr intended images as jpegs?  I will
do some tests for myself, but wondering if there is any difference others
have found?


 

Many Thanks,

Sam


 

 

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