> I was talking more of extremes, if any tool is used inappropriately ie > harsh shadows/highlight adjustment on an 8 bit file. A 16 bit file > will be far less prone to level based aberrations but like any image > it won't stop it looking like crap :-)
Very true. :-) > WRT your image I simply posed the suggestion that I suspect what you > achieved via HDR tools could have been achieved without using this > technique. As I said, I think you're right. Actually, I know you're right. :-) > I think where HDR shines is in images with an exposure range that > simply leaves the highlight areas completely blown and the shadow > areas dead black, like light streaming through a rain forest canopy. A > set of appropriately bracketed shots should allow the reconstruction > of a relatively natural appearing image using HDR techniques in this > type of situation. Well at the moment we have plenty of rain and forest, but no canopy. :-( Meanwhile I've been searching my archive to see if I have a high-contrast scene with bracketed exposures, but I have nothing better to test with yet. Guess I'll have to wait for the snow and some bright day. Some time in February, maybe... Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
