{"id":184,"date":"2006-07-03T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T14:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/07\/03\/photomatix-hdr-tutorial\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T13:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:42:28","slug":"photomatix-hdr-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/07\/03\/photomatix-hdr-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Photomatix HDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A great HDR application<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I took the plunge and bought the whole <i>megilla<\/i>, meaning the OS X Photomatix bundle, which removed the watermarking from the stand alone application and also provided a Photoshop CS2 tone mapping plug-in.  Not cheap at $95.65, but a bargain for a new way of seeing. The only snag is that you must use CS2.  Earlier versions will not work.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of this plug-in is that it provides a one step HDR experience.  No multiple pictures.  No tripod.  Just take a RAW file converted in ACR, run the plug-in from the filter menu, and you are done.<\/p>\n<p>Here are &#8216;before and after&#8217; pictures of much the same scene shown in yesterday&#8217;s journal entry:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/HDRnoplugin.jpg> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/HDRplugin.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the extreme dynamic range in this test snap is not converted as well with this one shot approach &#8211; take a look at the five shot version yesterday &#8211; but it&#8217;s not half bad and a lot less work.  A nice tool to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great HDR application. I took the plunge and bought the whole megilla, meaning the OS X Photomatix bundle, which removed the watermarking from the stand alone application and also provided a Photoshop CS2 tone mapping plug-in. Not cheap at $95.65, but a bargain for a new way of seeing. The only snag is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/07\/03\/photomatix-hdr-tutorial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photomatix HDR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sofware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3729,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}