May 1st, 2012
Yesterday hdrsoft.com announced the release of Photomatix version 4.2. The upgrade to version 4.2 is free of charge for customers who purchased a license of Photomatix Pro version 3 or higher. This is a version that’s been in beta for a while. I did a post about the new Realistic Option in batch mode in early April. [...]
April 9th, 2012
Mike Yother aka Swampman pointed out to me last week that the HDRsoft site has a new 4.2 Beta 3 version of Photomatix that has what they are calling a Fusion/Realistic processing option. The beta test download page describes the feature as follows: “New fusion method called Fusion/Realistic designed to work well for real-estate type of [...]
March 18th, 2012
I have to admit that when the Canon 5DMKIII was first announced at the first of this month I didn’t connect with the potential of the the new bracketing features of the 5DMKIII mainly because I didn’t look at them in any depth. This video sponsored by the guys over at imagingresource.com Chuck Westfall walks [...]
March 11th, 2012
Back when I did the polls on post-processing several readers asked me to poll everyone to see what people use for processing HDR. So here you have it. My sense (confirmed by the poll on the left) is that more people are using Exposure Fusion (not really the same as HDR, some times called blending) [...]
July 27th, 2011
Last week Dave Baxter, in upstate New York, told me that he was inspired by all the talk here on the blog about Exposure Fusion and wanted to know which camera body would be the best for shooting auto exposure brackets (AEB). While I knew that the recent Nikon DSLRs would shoot 8 EV of [...]
July 25th, 2011
Even though Russell Brown, the long time Photoshop evangelist uses the Nik HDR Pro Plugin in this tutorial to illustrate how to move away from over saturated and super sharpened HDR images. This is very appropriate for real estate photography and I believe the workflow he uses could easily be used with Photomatix or other tone mapping [...]
July 20th, 2011
Just incase you didn’t notice, last Saturday HDRsoft released version 4.1 of Photomatix Pro. Here is a list of the new features from the HDRsoft.com site: Ability to select a region on the Tone Mapping/Fusion preview and replace it with a source photo. A “Selection Mode” option on the Preview window lets users select one [...]
July 8th, 2011
As a result of the post I did yesterday taking a poll on the lighting techniques that real estate photographers use, a couple of readers asked, “what is Exposure Fusion?” The short answer is: Exposure Fusion (EF) is a slightly different way to process bracketed images just like you would shoot for HDR. Exposure Fusion [...]
July 3rd, 2011
I wanted to point out that Architectural Photographer Chad Jackson has a useful review/tutorial of the Donation-ware Lightroom/Enfuse plugin by Timothy Armes. I’m a big fan of this plugin and did a video tutorial on Lightroom/Enfuse a number of years ago. This plugin has been around since Feb of 2008 and is based on the work by [...]
May 29th, 2011
Last week my wife Levi got a e-mail flyer for a new listing in Redmond, WA on Seattle’s Eastside. She forwarded it to me as she exclaimed how this single little front shot made her want to go see this little cottage. This is exactly what front shots are suppose to do right? While what [...]
