Tone Mapping.

Ok, so after reading few tutorials, tried to do some tone mapping myself.... and I feel like i am missing something there!

So here is the original JPEG picture that came out of my camera along with the RAW (my computer is old, that is quicker to have JPEG to delete everything I don't want)

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Redirected to error image by FLICKR

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Redirected to error image by FLICKR

This is your first image. A bit small. I ran this one through some ps playing with color adjustment and contrast then some topaz. Has some grain in it, but using the denoise software made the trees very soft with no detail.

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'image/gif' | Byte size: ZERO | PHOTOBUCKET ERROR IMAGE

Thanks a lot! Gosh, that looks way better now :/ Never used Topaz Software before, but seems like i will need to have a look at it, seems like you can get really good results!!! And since I have the raw file and some details already in the trees I may well be able to get something good out.

That image looks like a good example of where a real HDR process would work. It covers many EV. You could do much with that by using several exposures to get the details in the dark areas and not blow out the clouds.

Creating 3 extra replicas from your original JPEG, at +2EV, +4EV and +6EV, the four images were fed into tufuse with the command:

tufuse -o result.tif *.tif

obtaining:

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I like what this does on the sky and reflect on the water, but I can't find anything I like for the trees... I guess next time i will just try bracketing ^^ Thanks for the helps guys.