HI,
First chance I have had to get online all weekend and just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who attended my first ever presentation night last Thursday.
Hope you all learned a little and enjoyed the slide shows.
I look forward to seeing all the HDR shots in next years comps
If you are interested in purchasing the software it is worth going via digital outback http://www.outbackphoto.com/ using their 15% discount button at the top. Provided you have a paypal account you could purchase it in dollars or euros. It makes a big difference from the price quoted in sterling.
Digital outback also have a tutorial on HDR and tone mapping.
Firstly thanks to everyone for their comments.
Len,
I haven't used any filters at all when planning an HDR shoot, but not sure if they would make any difference,
As you take several differently exposed shots in the process then the use of ND filters would be covered anyway,
As you shoot in RAW files then the necessity of warm up filters isn't needed as you could still warm them using the raw file software prior to processing with the HDR software,
And I am not sure whether they would be any advantage to using polarisers as the process enhances the detail anyway but I wouldn't say not to, just try it and see what you think.
I do think though with the process of taking the several shots, possibly at long exposures that using any filters could increase the possibilty of flare affecting the shot, because flaring is something that HDR does pick up on quite well, so is best avoided if you can.
Hope that helps, and let me know if you try it, and what happened.
best regards,
