[HDR-photo] TTHDR

[Theo Jacobs]

Mmm....I've never encountered that problem. 
I've done some experiments in PS and -to my surprise- the auto-align tool even works when one of the layers has a different scale as the other, so I wouldn't know what causes your problem. I copied part of a layer, moved, scaled and rotated it, but the auto-align tool perfectly moved, rescaled and rotated it to its original position and size.
Perhaps if we know more of your workflow we could help. Or perhaps you could upload some of the problematical images.

Theo



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brent Williams 
  To: High Dynamic Range Photography 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [HDR-photo] TTHDR


  Beautiful images Theo!  My problem is that the size of the tone-mapped image and my original RAW image are not the same and won't line up. Got any solutions?
  thanks,
  Brent
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Theo Jacobs 
    To: High Dynamic Range Photography 
    Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:50 AM
    Subject: Re: [HDR-photo] TTHDR


    Hello,

    Interesting thread - I'm a member of Photo.net and there too the number of unnatural HDR images is increasing alarmingly IMHO. 

    I use a technique that's very similar to the one Richard Kynast describes in his message:
    -I tone-map the image in Photomatix
    -I open the tone-mapped image in PS and overlay the original image (the '0' exposure) on a new layer and vary the opacity to 'restore' the relative brightness levels and 'naturalness'. The chosen opacity can vary from photo to photo, usually it's somewhere in the 25-50% range.
    -After that I do the usual (I guess) levels and colors adjustments.

    Quite often the initial Photomatix result is very spectacular, I can understand most people leave it at that and that's why we are shown so many spectacular but utterly unnatural results. For myself I try to do justice to how I saw it. 
    By 'relative brightness levels' I mean to say that in most tone-mapped images the sky is often way too dark relative to the landscape, overlaying the original layer makes the sky brighter again and the foreground darker.

    I like to think I achieve natural results. These galleries are all taken with HDR and processed the way I described:
    http://www.rtjacobs.nl/Theo/200710England/index.html
    http://www.rtjacobs.nl/Theo/200805Scotland/index.html
    http://www.rtjacobs.nl/Theo/200812lakedistrict/index.html
    (please hit F11 if you're on a small monitor)
    (more galleries here: http://www.rtjacobs.nl/Theo/galleries.html)

    Regards, Theo Jacobs




    ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: gennaro Taddei 
      To: hdr-photo at hdr-photography.com 
      Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:52 PM
      Subject: [HDR-photo] TTHDR


      Dear HDR friends, 

      IO am trying to deal with TTHDR Or realistic HDR. 

      Could you indicate some clues to easily realize those photos . 

      I don't like the illustrative aspect of some  HDR developments. So, I am looking forward to realize TTHDR by using in an unusual way the programs. 

      Thank you for the clues 



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