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Old 09-10-2007, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Rocket Boy View Post
The reason I asked about the exposures is that a lot of people have a misconception of what HDR is all about.
Not all scenes are suited to the HDR process.
There are times when there isn't a wide enough difference in the dynamic range in a scene to warrant a HDR.
This is why Photoshop first checks the exposure difference of each frame and will reject them if there isn't enough of a difference within the frames.
People also confuse HDR with tone mapping which again is not the same thing.

For proper HDR shots you need a very big difference from the shadows to the highlights in a scene and to use between five to ten frames from almost dark to almost fully blown highlights to achieve a proper HDR image.

You're off to a good start though Josh.

ah!!!! as deanoNZl said before me...the eureaka moment!

in which case i do believe that what i have been doing is tone mapping, it seems to work out alright, the results are a bit hit and miss though...

something that only practise will improve!
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