My First Experience With Photomatix Pro 3.1 (beta)

October 14th, 2008 by jeff

Here’s a couple of shots I took this past weekend while helping my son out with a homework project.  He had to get some pictures from around the community so I took the opportunity to grab my camera and shoot some quick bracket shots.  I didn’t have a lot of time to shoot so all of my shots were hand held.  I shot in Continuous-Low mode and had the camera set to fire a 5-stop exposure bracket from -2 to +2.  I only used 3 exposures for the HDR, selecting the +2, -2, and normal exposures.  I tried taking the images into Photomatix using the new Lightroom plug-in but I just like the HDR image alignment a little better using Photoshop.  I’m sure that if I had been shooting on a tripod that I would have gotten better results from the Photomatix alignment.  The rest of the process was pretty standard tonemapping.  Once done, I was able to import the new version back into Lightroom and then do some additional processing.  Here’s the final results. (click on the images for a larger view)

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  • http://www.opifer.dk/blog/blog.html Daniel

    And… where is your kids’ photos? :-)

  • http://www.throughHislens.com Sean

    nice shots :D

    the sky in the first is amazing!

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  • http://blog.richcharpentier.com Rich Charpentier

    Any big changes in Photomatix? I’m on 3.0, and haven’t played with the beta yet.

    The sky is extremely cool in the first photo!