Luminance HDR offers top-notch high dynamic range imaging

Conclusions

Luminance HDR is a fantastic piece of software that often achieves really amazing results. However, this requires some experience and experimentation. It takes a lot of experience to see at a glance which of the tone-mapping operators will help you achieve the desired results, but because RAW editing is non-destructive, you can experiment time and time again.

Tone-mapping operators can make it possible to produce a good HDR image with just one raw image (single-shot RAWs). This then lets you create HDR images from photographs of moving objects or for situations in which no tripod is available.

Infos

  1. Luminance HDR: http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/
  2. Qtpfsgui: http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/?page_id=2
  3. Krita: http://krita.org/
  4. Photo stitching: http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2007/81/Free-Software-Projects
  5. MantiukHDR: http://mantiukhdr.sourceforge.net/
  6. Comparison of tone-mapping algorithms: http://www.frank-durr.de/tonemapping_comparison.html
  7. Evaluation of tone-mapping algorithms: http://dcgi.felk.cvut.cz/home/cadikm/tmo/
  8. Tone-mapping algorithms: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/tmo/
  9. pfstools: http://pfstools.sourceforge.net

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