Jul 14, 2009

Finessing HDR

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Tasteful fine art HDR is a complex formulation of multiple images, multiple pieces of software, tone mapping, and creative imagination of the artist.
Jeff Revell shows his mastery in a video HDR Finishing Touches. His basic thesis: images, software tools, and imagination construct that final, creative image.

In this 10 minute video, Jeff adds subtlety and finesse after using Lightroom 2, CS4, and Photomatix Pro. As you shoot HDR images, capture of 3 images can introduce noise. Shooting more images (5-7-9) tends to help reduce noise.
There are two cases where Lightroom can’t do the noise reduction job. Jeff uses Nik’s Dfine 2.0 and the high pass filter in CS4, paying particular attention at the back of the hall and where upper columns flare.

Take a look at the video; if you're familiar with Photomatix and CS4 HDR tools, I think you'll really like Jeff’s suggested subtle luminosity finesse. I did...
Enjoy...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for posting this! great video. Good info.