February 7th, 2010
I did a post last August on HDR Studio when unifiedcolor.com released their Windows only version.
They recently released a Mac version and temporally reduced their price from $149 to $99.
I’ve downloaded the 30 day trial version and have been using it for a few days. I have to say there is much to like about HDR [...]
January 9th, 2010
A couple of days ago Milia Campbell (TulipChain Photography and TulipChain flickr handle) pointed out to me that we should have a separate flickr group for HDR and Blending in real estate so that all the there would be a separate place to post and discuss HDR and Blended images.
As you know if you’ve been [...]
January 5th, 2010
I just discovered that HDRsoft announced Photomatix Light back on Dec 15, 2009. This slipped passed me because I’ve been depending on HDRsoft e-mails that announce new versions. I didn’t get one this time. Maybe it’s because I nitpicked the way the first version of their Lightroom plugin worked. I’ll be nice.
What Photomatix Light is, [...]
December 29th, 2009
In his article titled “A Plea for HDR” on Luminous-landscape.com Alexandre Buisse says “The technique (HDR) has indeed a very bad press, especially in the “fine art” community, and to be fair, much of the criticism is justified. But the point I would like to make here is that, well used, it can be very [...]
November 29th, 2009
A couple of months ago there was an outstanding thread in the PFRE Discussion group discussing various approaches on how to get clean whites when shooting HDR. This thread caught my attention because getting clean whites when shooting HDR is a classic problem that many beginning real estate photographers struggle with.
fuzzybabybunny:) starts out the thread [...]
September 22nd, 2009
Marcus Newey pointed out an interesting new remote device that will do HDR bracketing the way you want. Some of the features are:
Replaces and extends manufacturer-specific remote controls.
Allows for unparalleled flexibility with automatic >30 second exposures in “bulb mode” – even in HDR sequences.
Advanced easy-to-configure “Time-Lapse Mode” with optional sequence start delay.
Optional user-defined Mirror-Up timeout [...]
September 19th, 2009
I came across this video (sorry about the ad… first time I’ve seen ads on youtube videos) by Patrick Norton and Roger Chang of Revision3 the other day that besides being a decent basic introduction to HDR talks about an open source HDR processing application called Qtpfsgui. This is the first time I’d heard of [...]
August 10th, 2009
The last week or so I’ve been talking to Igor Tryndin, the CTO of www.unifiedcolor.com, about their HDRStudio product. Even though HDRstudio is still a Windows only product, Igor convinced me to give it a try.
I’ve not used HDRstudio enough to form a strong opinion of it but I have used it on several images [...]
July 14th, 2009
Today HDRsoft announced Photomatix Pro version 3.2. This upgrade is available for download from:
http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/win.html (Windows)
http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/mac.html (Mac)
The main updates in version 3.2 are:
June 2nd, 2009
Last month Pentax announced the K7. The K7 is the first camera that has honest to goodness tone mapping built-in to it’s microcode. When you put it in HDR mode and click the shutter it shoots 3 to 5 exposures +/-2EV and then after about 10 seconds out pops a JPG that’s been tone mapped. [...]
April 27th, 2009
Early in April 2009 HDRsoft released a Aperture Edit Plug-in for Photomatix-like tonemapping. For now it doesn’t have blending but they say they will add the blending functionality to a future release of the plug-in. They say that they have no current plans to offer batch processing in the plug-in because of the fact that [...]
March 9th, 2009
Sylvia Guardia described a technique to me that she and others are using to get the best of both flash lighting and HDR. The image on the right (actually the first two images in her Spa Hilton Papagayo series) was made by shooting 3 HDR shots with a flash. Then after processing the the 3 [...]
February 27th, 2009
I just noticed that digitalphotopro.com has an article by John Paul Caponigro titled “Aesthetics Of XDR – Using Extended Dynamic Range techniques judiciously will keep you from taking a good thing too far“. In addition to the article above, JP has been doing a series on what he calls XDR for a while. Here are [...]
December 3rd, 2008
I asked Dan Achatz last July ago to do a guest blog post for us on how he uses Photomatix for real estate shoots but up until this week he’s been too busy shooting. Many of you are familiar with Dan’s great looking HDR work that he posts on flickr or on this site. His [...]
November 30th, 2008
I recently discovered UK photographer Barry Beckham’s site. Barry has a number of tutorials and has one on HDR that will probably be of interest to real estate photographers. I found Barry’s site by way of the three part youtube tutorial he is using to promote his new HDR tutorial DVD. Here are the three [...]
