HDR Tools Test

Picture by philk80


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  • June 20, 2012
  • Shooting Style Hand Held
  • Shoots Number Multiple Exposure
  • Exposures Number -2, 0, +2
  • Editing Software Others
  • File Format JPEG
  • Notes Camara: Lumix FZ48

21 Comments

20 Jun 12:25
philk80

Try to reach the same look in any of this tools but this was not possible because of the differnt names and settings of them. Very interesting for me was to see how the deghosting funktions worked or not. Only the first 4 tools did it well ... please have a look at the ear and the back of the dog. (handheld shot and the dogs heat and back has movement) DO NOT VOTE ! ...it is only a test that i want to show you. Maybe we can share experiences about tonemapping-tools .

20 Jun 12:34
flipd1

WOW, I think think this is a great test. Nice comparison of them all. I used to use Luminance and can tell you the de-ghosting on that was simply BAD. I have had huge success with Photmatix

20 Jun 12:36
philk80

Agree , i use Photomatix 3.2 and i am happy with that ... the photoshop deghosting workes well to but i'm not happy with the tonemapping in it.

20 Jun 13:04
curtis

Cool... Photomatix 3.2 ^^

20 Jun 13:15
adrianay

Very interesting! thank you for posting the test! very cool! Is there a difference between Photomatix 4.1 and 4.2? I use 4.2

20 Jun 13:27
philk80

I don't test the 4.2.

20 Jun 15:11
digicam

Excellent Work Phil. I think the Photomatix 3.2 image is the Best of the Group....Great Post!

20 Jun 15:24
philk80

Thats my favorit too. I don't know if i can reproduce the same look with any other tool, if i get more practice with one of them.

20 Jun 17:00
dirk

I like the colors of PM 3.2 and the texture from PM 4.1.

20 Jun 17:04
rcuello

Any of the Photomatix is good for me, I think I like more the 4.1 by the texture as it says Dirk.

20 Jun 18:19
philk80

If you want to try HDR Efex Pro, it's from NIK Software , plug in for photoshop ... and the test version dit not generate a watermark.

20 Jun 18:26
banneduser__

Would be nice to see the original unprocessed image to give a baseline to compare from. Thanks for the effort of posting this.

20 Jun 18:27
bessi7

Great post Philk...Photomatrix 4.1 and HDR Efex Pro 2 is good for me.

20 Jun 18:33
philk80

Tomorrow, i post a link on this image here with my 3 original images ...so if you want have a look again

20 Jun 18:42
pandarino

i use pmatix 3.2 and pmatix 4.2, i prefer them

20 Jun 19:47
rrr

Interesting. Quite often I turn the image B/W and then re saturate, before using filters.

20 Jun 20:35
inkslinger

Thanks for all your hard work Phil. I am in dilemma at present what to use. Tried Photomatix again today & like it....

20 Jun 20:44
pixel_komando

You should read some tutorials about Luminance HDR :-)))

20 Jun 20:45
philk80

You'r welcome, my statemant is , don't use the last 4 and Picturenaut :)

20 Jun 20:48
philk80

I will read a tut ore see one on youtube tomorrow but a don't think it will fix the ghosting problems. I try ! And let u know.

20 Jun 22:52
vendenis

Photomaatix 3.2 is to my liking Phil

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