[HDR-photo] HDRI Book and Jpeg brackets

[carlton wade]

Sam,

Photomatix will run the raw images, meaning you can omit the step  
creating the tiffs.  I've also run differenly exposed jpegs through  
Photomatix with identical results.  I always shoot raw, but I did the  
jpeg experiment just as such, and it worked fine.

Best,
CW

carlton wade
carltonwade.com


On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Sam Kittner wrote:

Thanks to you all for your replies.
As mentioned I have been shooting and processing raw files for many  
years...with all the top Nikon cameras and adobe camera raw.

I'll likely continue the hdr work flow of shooting raw...converting  
to tiffs...then running the tiffs in photomatix.

I had just wondered if shooting jpegs, as recommended in the hdr book  
pano section, might have benefits...while buffers work well on raws  
on the nikons (d2x, d200, soon d300)...the buffer will slow down as  
one shoots 7 brackets (wish nikons allowed to set 2ev brackets) per  
pano view of 5-8 views...so one can need to shoot 35-56 images very  
fast.

I need to do more tests...but I found I got better results converting  
the raws to tiffs and then running photomatix.
Do some of you have good results running raws in photomatix?
I wonder if some of you run jpegs converted from raws in photomaitx  
and how that works out?

Many Thanks,
Sam



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