[HDR-photo] HDRI Book and Jpeg brackets

[Jack Howard]

Here's a capsule review and tutorial I wrote on
DPHDR...<http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4472/hdr-how-to-dynamic-photo-hdr.html>

Jack Howard
www.PopPhoto.com

On Nov 24, 2007 4:45 PM, Wayne Roth <sharkman53 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
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> 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?
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> Also just an FYI, Ben Wilmore has an HDR online course at Xtrain.com if
> anyone is interested.
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> Thanks for the advice.
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>
> 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
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> I too shoot Pano and HDR.
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> I shoot in RAW
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Many Thanks,
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> Sam
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> portfolio: <http://www.kittner.com >
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