Several algorithms produced consistent colours. Photomatix’ Exposure Fusion: Average is one obvious candidate for consistent colours, and yes, it worked. That should turn all the colour blotches to black if they are identical in the two layers.
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The colour blotches are identical, but since half of them are surrounded by white and the other half by black, those Photomatix processes that treat colours dynamically (depending on pixel surroundings) will produce different colours for each identical pair.Ī simple verification procedure is to position the white half on top of the black half in Photoshop and set the top layer to Blend mode Difference. To identify those settings that behave predictably we need to create two versions of the reference chart, namely one with black and one with white background. No surprise, Detail Enhancer can be one of these.
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Other settings produce dynamic colour shifts depending on the surrounding pixels. Long story short: Some settings in Photomatix produce consistent colour shifts and can be calibrated.
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The one to the right is Details Enhancer with most settings at “wild”. The one to the left is Tone Compressor with all settings at zero, as neutral as possible.
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The one in the middle is a normal exposure. The solution applies to any HDR program that creates unnatural but consistent colours. In the second part I will present a workflow “for the rest of us”, where I use what I found in the first part to effortlessly create a consistent suite of HDR images from one shoot – the HDR slider. In the first part I will look at the problem of consistent colours in Photomatix Pro, and how it can be solved. Until the “HDR slider” arrives I would like to have something similar and simple. I think of HDR as an extreme version of Lightroom’s Fill Light and Recovery combined, just a method to get back what I saw and I know was there. Now with Lightroom there are simple sliders for them all and more. Does anyone remember as far back as 2003? That was when we corrected exposure using multiple layers and blending modes in Photoshop, and when we created “fill flash” using clever masks. And I also want HDR to be just another part of my toolbox. But I don’t want my pictures to look like HDR. One of my favourite photographic subjects is church interiors (no castles in this part of the world), and HDR is indispensable. Alexandre Buisse in A Plea for HDRsaid it all.