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War Memorial
About:
After test driving Nik HDR Efex Pro for a while and the trial stopped working, I discovered Photomatix has an upgrade available to V4 and it's free for current V3 users! Well done HDRSoft, really good service!
I thought let me process a picture of Scotland, just took a random picture I would put through Photomatix, and to be honest a first sight it works the same, a little bit faster, user settings have a preview now, ghost reduction is semi manual or automatic (took the bracketed shots twice through the process, this is through the semi manual which is better (marginally noticable on the arrows on the road on the full resolution files)
Conclusion: I'm going to stick with Photomatix for a while
The picture itself: On the road to Eilean Donan castle the weather was this all day, which is kind of nice, gives nice dramatic skies and lots of color in HDR shots. This is from a war memorial next to the main road where I shot some graveyard pictures and this war memorial is for the memory of the fallen heroes during WWI
On the left you can see the one of the five sisters of Kintail (mountain on the left = 'sgurr na maroich'), got some nice panorama still lying around...
Location:
Loch Duich
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/11 at -1 EV (basic shot, other shots are at -3EV and +1EV)
Taken with: Nikon D90 and 10-20 mm f/4-5.6 at 11
HDR processed in Photomatix 4
Noise reduction in Nik Dfine (also testdriving this, getting to get it the way I like, is better than Lightroom because of the selective nature you can apply, only noise reduction on the gray color range, the rest was not affected)
A little bit of sharpening in Lightroom
Usage:
All my images are copyrighted, if you want to use it for anything contact me first.
Any comments, criticism and tips are welcome.
War Memorial
About:
After test driving Nik HDR Efex Pro for a while and the trial stopped working, I discovered Photomatix has an upgrade available to V4 and it's free for current V3 users! Well done HDRSoft, really good service!
I thought let me process a picture of Scotland, just took a random picture I would put through Photomatix, and to be honest a first sight it works the same, a little bit faster, user settings have a preview now, ghost reduction is semi manual or automatic (took the bracketed shots twice through the process, this is through the semi manual which is better (marginally noticable on the arrows on the road on the full resolution files)
Conclusion: I'm going to stick with Photomatix for a while
The picture itself: On the road to Eilean Donan castle the weather was this all day, which is kind of nice, gives nice dramatic skies and lots of color in HDR shots. This is from a war memorial next to the main road where I shot some graveyard pictures and this war memorial is for the memory of the fallen heroes during WWI
On the left you can see the one of the five sisters of Kintail (mountain on the left = 'sgurr na maroich'), got some nice panorama still lying around...
Location:
Loch Duich
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/11 at -1 EV (basic shot, other shots are at -3EV and +1EV)
Taken with: Nikon D90 and 10-20 mm f/4-5.6 at 11
HDR processed in Photomatix 4
Noise reduction in Nik Dfine (also testdriving this, getting to get it the way I like, is better than Lightroom because of the selective nature you can apply, only noise reduction on the gray color range, the rest was not affected)
A little bit of sharpening in Lightroom
Usage:
All my images are copyrighted, if you want to use it for anything contact me first.
Any comments, criticism and tips are welcome.