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

Hi Jeff,
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