decorahman
esperimentjpg
This is the resulting image from using jpegs.I am new to HDR but really enjoy it. Wanting to learn, I read different experts give different advise on HDR photos. One expert said to always use RAW files while another said use jpegs as there is no difference. I am posting 2 photos. Both were taken at exactly the same time with the same settings. I merely had my camera process each of the 3 images used for the HDR as a large jpeg & RAW file. To create this photo, I put the 3 large jpegs directly into Photomatix with no processing. The next image was, per advice of the expert, handled differently. The RAW files were processed by Photoshop and changed into tiff images which were then put into Photomatix. The Photomatix settings were the same for each image. I used no other post processing for a fair comparison.
Using RAW images, translating them into tiff images prior to loading into Photomatix is a lot of work. The files are much larger. If you can’t really see the difference, I don’t want to do it.
With these two examples, I don’t see much difference. But I’d like your opinion or comments so I can learn. I will probably try this same experiment later on a scene that has more dynamic range variation.
esperimentjpg
This is the resulting image from using jpegs.I am new to HDR but really enjoy it. Wanting to learn, I read different experts give different advise on HDR photos. One expert said to always use RAW files while another said use jpegs as there is no difference. I am posting 2 photos. Both were taken at exactly the same time with the same settings. I merely had my camera process each of the 3 images used for the HDR as a large jpeg & RAW file. To create this photo, I put the 3 large jpegs directly into Photomatix with no processing. The next image was, per advice of the expert, handled differently. The RAW files were processed by Photoshop and changed into tiff images which were then put into Photomatix. The Photomatix settings were the same for each image. I used no other post processing for a fair comparison.
Using RAW images, translating them into tiff images prior to loading into Photomatix is a lot of work. The files are much larger. If you can’t really see the difference, I don’t want to do it.
With these two examples, I don’t see much difference. But I’d like your opinion or comments so I can learn. I will probably try this same experiment later on a scene that has more dynamic range variation.