HDRsoft has released version 5 of its popular Photomatix Pro high dynamic range (HDR) software. [Read more…]
The Chapel, HDR Video Shot with 5D Mark II
Patrick Kizny shot this HDR sequence inside an 18th century chapel in Poland. Whether you like HDR or not, you have to appreciate the amount of work that went into this production – particularly, how smooth the slider shots were for the timelapse sequences.
He used a number of different cameras, but primarily relied on the 5D Mark II for the timelapse shots due to its high resolution. If you are interested in more about how he made it, check out the behind the scenes video below.
A detailed description of the post-production timelapse HDR workflow can be found on the Looky Creative blog.
Photomatix Pro 4.0 Released
HDRsoft has released Photomatix Pro version 4.0, which adds a number of new features and improvements, such as selective deghosting, improved noise reduction and thumbnail presets panel.
Photomatix Pro 4.0 is a free upgrade for version 3 users, and still carries the $99 retail price for other users.
More info can be found on HDRsoft’s website.
HDRsoft Photomatix Light 1.0
HDRsoft has released a more affordable version of its popular Photomatix software. The new version is called “Photomatix Light.”
Photomatix Light 1.0 is available for $39 via instant download from HDRsoft.com. Photomatix Pro will run you $99.
Photomatix Light 1.0 is a standalone application that provides HDR tone mapping, exposure fusion and automatic alignment of hand-held photos. [Read more…]
HDR Poll Results – Lightroom vs. Photomatix
Last week, I showed you a couple of images that I processed with a goal of creating an extended dynamic range. One was processed in Lightroom from a single image and one was processed from three separate images in Photomatix to create an HDR image. This grew largely from an experiment with a Canon 5D Mark II RAW file to see how far I could push the dynamic range from a single file in Lightroom 2.5. Nothing scientific. Just a little fun.
If you missed it, here is the original post.
To make things a little more interesting, I posted both images with metadata stripped and asked you to decide which was a single image processed in Lightroom and which was a combination of 3 images processed in Photomatix. Take a look at the results of that poll below. [Read more…]