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HDR Finishes!

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Steve Robinson

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I've been using LR since Ver 1 beta and it keeps getting better. With Ver 4 I think the noise reduction algorithms are not too bad. I haven't done a lot of really high ISO imagery yet but I did try this shot of an airport terminal late at night using a Pentax K5 at ISO 12800 and used the NR in LR 4.2. I'm far from an expert on processing software so this is just for grins and giggles.

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Bart_van_der_Wolf

pro member
Steve Robinson said:
I've been using LR since Ver 1 beta and it keeps getting better. With Ver 4 I think the noise reduction algorithms are not too bad. I haven't done a lot of really high ISO imagery yet but I did try this shot of an airport terminal late at night using a Pentax K5 at ISO 12800 and used the NR in LR 4.2. I'm far from an expert on processing software so this is just for grins and giggles.
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Hi Steve,

SNS-HDR (which is the thread you originally posted in, if I'm not mistaken) is special. In one of my many comparisons between the various software offerings, I came across yet another example of SNS-HDR's superiority, compared to the new LR4 functionality.

Here are two renderings of the same 7 exposure HDR bracketed series. I tried to optimize the new Lightroom 4.x capability to use 32-bit/channel floating point TIFFs from Photoshop (first image crop), followed by the current SNS-HDR rendering quality from the same 7 TIFF input files (while attempting to mimick the LR4 overall optimized look):

7883-9-LR41(7).jpg
7883-9-SNSHDR(7).jpg

Apparently, SNS-HDR is the one that retains a non-posterized view of this admittedly extreme input, and Lightroom's cutting edge tonemapping technology fails, big time.

Cheers,
Bart
 
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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Bart_van_der_Wolf said:
Hi Steve,

SNS-HDR (which is the thread you originally posted in, if I'm not mistaken) is special.
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Bart,

I appreciate so much that you noted where the picture was originally placed. Steve kindly allowed us to place it in a new thread and this was, indeed a lure to get someone to show a comparison Lightroom with the latest offerings of SNS-HDR. Thanks!

You did not disappoint!

Asher :)
 
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