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I use it and feel it is very worthwhile on the right photos, especially a 5 shot HDR bracket. Every photo will tend to want something a bit different but the program is great about letting you save every photo's setting as a Pre-set if desired. More MC will darken as will less Luminosity but in different ways. Then play with Luminosity and MicroContrast to dial the lighting in closer and then back to fine tune your strength. Go back to that photo and dial the strength up to somewhere around 85%, set your smoothing to High for starters.
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It is more like a 5 speed manual Porche than an automatic Chevy. You will need to get hands on on the controls to see what it does. It doesn't give you a default analysis and treatment of that particular photo as some might expect from a 'Default'. I have never used Enfuse, but I know that Photomatix is pretty smart and wasn't probably tricked much by the fake HDR range as it has a feature where it can pretty much do the same thing itself with an original RAW out of LR.Īlso, default settings don't mean much in Photomatix as once you use it on a photo the next time you bring one in it defaults to the last settings you finished with on the last photo processed. and until you do that I don't believe that you will really have any valid data to compare. >Now, to try a proper +/-2 stops hdr with three separate exposures and try again. Now, to try a proper +/-2 stops hdr with three separate exposures and try again. (and then perhaps only to psychologically justify the L10 I donated!) Perhaps, I prefer the Enfused version to the best effort Lightroom version, but only marginally. Simple and cheap as chips and seems to do the job. Photomatix? For donationware vs $99 payware, I think I'll stick with the Enfuse plugin. Perhaps I could have achieved this with highlight recovery and fill light in LR itself. I then 'enfused' the three fake HDR photos to see what happened: I'm sure there is something that could be done about this in Photomatix Lots of good recovery of both shadow and dark but seems to be dreadfully washed out.
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I don't know enough about this software to give it a fair shot but this is what the default settings produce: I then made copies with +/- 1.5 ev to make a 'fake hdr' with photomatix. Photomatix seems to be bursting with options, (very few of which I understand) Before the reformat, I had discovered 'enfuse' - a Lightroom plugin that blends exposures. I recently had to reformat my computer which gave me another chance to load a trial of Photomatix.