Software for HDR Photography

Hi All

My question is not really underwater related, but I am sure you also take pictures above the sea;-)

I am looking into buying a software for HDR photography and panoramic photography. Does anybody have experience with Photomatix, Lightzone or other software for HDR?

Any other recommendations?

Thanks a lot for some views and infos on that topic!

Barbara

Hi All

My question is not really underwater related, but I am sure you also take pictures above the sea;-)

I am looking into buying a software for HDR photography and panoramic photography. Does anybody have experience with Photomatix, Lightzone or other software for HDR?

Any other recommendations?

Thanks a lot for some views and infos on that topic!

Barbara

I use Photomatix and Photoshop and pretty happy with both. There have been some good discussions on HDR around here, inlcuding underwater, recommendations of books, techniques

Some Threads

Hi Barbara

I use Photomatix Pro 3 and Panorama Maker 4 Pro. Both programs are easy to use, and give good results.

Mike

Photomatix and PS get my vote too

Hugin is a great free program for creating panoramas, and you can create them in HDR too

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

[Disclaimer: I am one of the developers]

For tonemapping try this:

http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html

The demo is fully functional - it just puts a watermark at the bottom of the image, so if you edit your image to put some space there then you can crop it off afterwards. Not expensive though so I recommend you buy it if you like it.

I use Photomatix as well. I looked into a few other programs before, and also read two books on HDR, and that seemed to be the best all around software.