Here’s a technique that was shared with me, and one that I never even thought of, and that was to tone map the HDR, twice!
While not earth shattering, it does throw up some interesting effects in the end result is a little “grungy” but rather than overall, it seems to occur in smaller pockets of areas. These could be taken further with a little burning and dodging.
The general idea is to process in Photomatix and after being tone mapped, save as a 16BIT TIF, reopen in Photomatix and tone map again.
Here’s a small segment of a photo I used this technique on, a larger photo can be found either here or here
© Safe Harbour
I think the technique may be of use when are there are pockets of shadows, for example, dappled light under a tree. Hope someone finds this useful.
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October 18th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Nice shot, and nice idea re: tone mapping twice. I may give it a go.
Best,
Louis
October 18th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Cheers Louis, I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
JC
October 20th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
well it looks good according to your pic will give a try thanks
June 16th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Interesting concept, I will try it in linux, if you are interested you can read more here
http://www.digiphd.com/panorama-hdr-world-open-source/