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Title: Ultimate Triumphant Again Post by: Jeff on May 27, 2012, 03:55:41 PM A club member came across yet another HDR prog. Luminance HDR - http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/
I have given it a test for the past week and actually it's quite good, it is possible to get away from the HDR gunge look and does not appear create colour aberrations. However, on my test images I cannot see any improvement on a one shot processed with Ultimate and it ends up a lot more work and disk space usage. My unscientific test results are on[url http://ejdigitalimages.blogspot.co.uk/p/page-05.html][/url] jeff Title: Re: Ultimate Triumphant Again Post by: Fred A on May 27, 2012, 05:56:04 PM Quote However, on my test images I cannot see any improvement on a one shot processed with Ultimate and it ends up a lot more work and disk space usage. Jeff,From time to time, Terry and I share images run through a program called SNS, a very excellent HDR program. From time to time, we *think* we find an image that seemed to improve upon the results we can get using Ultimate, and when we look again, there's a lot of extraneous noise and artifacts that were not present in the image rendered by Qimage Ultimate. Sometimes, people look at an HDR processed image, and see an initial WOW factor that is quickly forgotten when it is measured at the cost of the image quality. I will let Terry comment on his feelings. Fred Title: Re: Ultimate Triumphant Again Post by: Terry-M on May 27, 2012, 08:11:38 PM Hi Jeff,
Quote A club member came across yet another HDR prog. Luminance HDR I've tried Luminace HDR and all it's variations and found it most difficult to get decent results, ie. the results were "over the top".SNS-HDR is probably one of the best HDR programs around as it gives reasonably natural results, indeed, on the "natural" rather than the "default" setting, it is not bad. However, noise control is poor, some images are ok. but others are bad & a QU noise reduction filter with careful TTS has to be used to make an image somewhere near acceptable. I have used SNS, usually on single images, to get good contrast in dull area of the image - this is due to the tone mapping that SNS does. On your examples. I would think the QU Control Image could be "improved" (more shadow detail) within QU: more raw fill and a curve in the filter. The other 2 images from Luminance HDR look like the highlights are blown, something I would not expect from an HDR program. My examples from SNS-HDR: http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/image/141078562 http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/image/139776811 http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/image/137515572 http://www.pbase.com/tjm04/image/136705366 Terry Title: Re: Ultimate Triumphant Again Post by: Jeff on May 29, 2012, 06:53:08 AM Thanks both, another program to test out when the weather turns.
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