greypilgrim
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Lisa,
Thanks. I have to admit, the people were an afterthought, but they really make the picture. I ended up cropping to emphasize them.
Doug
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Sentinel Dome Pano, HDR -- big image alert
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Thanks. I have to admit, the people were an afterthought, but they really make the picture. I ended up cropping to emphasize them.
Doug
Jose Luis Gonzalez
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>I wish I knew how to automate things better in lightroom, but either way, having the plugin and Photoshop work directly with lightroom really helps.
Doug
Doug, you can simplify the process using Raw Photo Processor, this app will extract as much shadow and highlite detail in one step as you are getting with the 3 versions +1,0,-1 in LR plus Pmatix, and you´ll get sharper results to boot, give it a try, if you love high quality images you´ll become addicted to it
Cheers
Jose
Doug
Doug, you can simplify the process using Raw Photo Processor, this app will extract as much shadow and highlite detail in one step as you are getting with the 3 versions +1,0,-1 in LR plus Pmatix, and you´ll get sharper results to boot, give it a try, if you love high quality images you´ll become addicted to it
Cheers
Jose
greypilgrim
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Sure, go ahead and try to get me to spend more time with yet another software package
Actually, Lightroom does fine processing these on its own. They are actually flat contrast, so there is lots of leeway with them. I didn't need to recover highs or blacks.
The reason for using Photomatix wasn't to do that. The attempt was to get the somewhat "painterly" effect from an HDR without overdoing that.
So, I was using a technique I had read about, taking an individual raw shot and turning it into an HDR by having three copies exposed differently in software (as described above) and then combined by Photomatix as an HDR.
For comparison, here is a link to the same files, processed a bit in Lightroom (no clipping issues as mentioned) and converted into a pano:
http://web.me.com/greypilgrim/Photos/Yosemite-10-17-09-70-Edit.jpg
While certainly acceptable (I should drop the exposure on the sky a bit I think), I don't find anything particularly unusual about it.
So, unless RPP does HDR, it wouldn't save me any steps here.
Thanks,
Doug