First HDR Experiment

On Monday, I finally opened up Photomatix Pro.4.0.1. I had done some bracketed shots but none that I felt would be utilizing the program in its intended function. When out last week I had taken a series of photos of cloud cover over the river, and clicked off a bracketed set to see if they might be worthy guinea pigs.

This was the original shot.



Then the one step down exposure image.



And finally the one step up exposure frame.




After loading the three raw files into Photomatix Pro, it looked after blending them and giving you a composite image to start with. After spending 20 minutes watching a You Tube tutorial, I set about working on the Tone, Contrast, Highlight and Shadow section of the editing panel. The end result :

28 MB and too big to upload to Blogger. I will look for a way to rectify that and try and post it later.

Ok. New rule. Do not try and upload .tif files to the internet. Just a little too big. So after converting to jpeg this is what the finished product looked like:



Now this isn't the best representation of a HDR , but it was a start off point and now I will be able to look for bracketed shots that will be done justice by the process.