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Processing the trestle image
From the course: HDR Photography: Shooting and Processing
Processing the trestle image
If you watched Chapter 3, then you saw me shoot some HDR images of an old railroad trestle. I went through all the different things that I shot, I picked up the set that I liked, and I merged them in Photoshop and created a 32-bit EXR file. That file, image 1426.exr, is sitting in your Exercise Files Chapter 6 folder. Let's go through the entire process. You've seen the shooting. Now we've merged. I'm now going to take that image into Photomatix and do my tone mapping. I'm also going to do the same thing in HDR Efex and then I'm going to take the result into Photoshop and finish it up so that you'll be able to see the entire start to finish process. So I'm dropping this image on Photomatix, which will open it, and now I'm hitting the Tone Mapping button, close out my presets, and as you can see I've got a pretty typical initial tone mapping HDR result here. The image is a little bit flat. It could use a little contrast. My histogram is looking pretty good though. I've got pretty…
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Reducing noise and correcting chromatic aberrations13m 33s
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Finishing an image8m 42s
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Handling HDR images that are "flat"13m 37s
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Combining HDR and LDR23m 3s
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Selective editing with HDR Efex Pro9m 42s
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HDR that doesn't look like HDR12m 41s
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Tone mapping troubles to watch for6m 46s
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Why use HDR for black-and-white images?5m 26s
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Black-and-white HDR12m 39s
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Panoramic HDR12m 3s
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HDR time lapse4m 24s
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Processing the trestle image10m 1s
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