Natural Looking HDR

J-Blake wrote in post #18177303

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Really well don Jon!

Way ta go, Jon!

ptcanon3ti wrote in post #18177343
Really well don Jon!

Thanks Paul!

bpiper7 wrote in post #18177788
Way ta go, Jon!

Thanks Bill!

I had a hell of time figuring out the best way to present this one on this and finally stopped at this iteration. I'm not 100% satisfied with it, but having spent way too much time on it I finally decided to see what others thought. Appreciate the feedback!

J-Blake wrote in post #18178235
Thanks Paul!

Thanks Bill!

I had a hell of time figuring out the best way to present this one on this and finally stopped at this iteration. I'm not 100% satisfied with it, but having spent way too much time on it I finally decided to see what others thought. Appreciate the feedback!

I don't know how you did it. I tried once and failed miserably. Lol

As a Mac user, I have not really taken the plunge and committed to testing and using SNS-HDR. Since Sebastian released v2, I thought I would give it a go.

If you want to be able to tone map a wide variety of HDR scenes into a natural looking image, SNS-HDR excels right out of the box, so to speak. It runs fine on my Macs, under Parallels and Win10.

I've been testing it and trying out various data sets recently. The one weaker area is deghosting, but SNS accepts EXR and HDR file formats, so you can merge and deghost in other applications and then bring the HDR file into SNS for tone mapping.

Really well done application.

This equirectangular panoramic image was shot with a Canon 5D MkIV, Zeiss 15mm Distagon T* f/2.8 and a Nodal Ninja 5 pano head. I shot a sequence of 5 exposures, 1 EV spacing, for each pano segment. A pano stitch was made in PTGui for each exposure level and then the resulting panos were merged and tone mapped in SNS - FYI, SNS has a checkbox that one can enable during import of the source images to let the application know that the images are 360° panos, so that the tone mapping is seamless across the wrap around edge.

Too bad that the forum limit is 1280 px - this panorama was stitched to be a little over 17000px on the long edge. The detail is really a treat to behold, even in a blah scene like this one.

kirk

And another - bright sun outside.

kirk

UK_MARK wrote in post #18143864
Playa Chica sunrise whilst in Lanzarote last week.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/MHVS​Lx playa chica by Mark, on Flickr

I love this one buddy

woollyback wrote in post #18187396
I love this one buddy

Thanks matey.

Raglan Castle - 5 shots, Photoshop HDR Pro.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/Pa7y​PY

First is straight out of sns-hdr pro 2.1, 2nd is hand blended with lum masks.

Just returned from 4 days paddle camping on the Suwanee River in north Florida. I kept a Lumix GX8 with PL 100-400mm in my lap for the scant wildlife and I brought the little Sony for snapshots and landscapes. This is the scene from camp on day two of the trip-

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #18211806
Just returned from 4 days paddle camping on the Suwanee River in north Florida. I kept a Lumix GX8 with PL 100-400mm in my lap for the scant wildlife and I brought the little Sony for snapshots and landscapes. This is the scene from camp on day two of the trip-

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Very nice