Seeing some recent threads about HDR and all the wow factor that seems to be surrounding it at the moment it made me think...haven't we all been doing this for ages?
I don't have photomatrix but have been producing a similar (if more subtle) effect for quite a while now in Photoshop. From a single RAW file using two different exposures I've been creating two or more layers and erasing selectively or using the gradient tool to keep details in highlights and shadows (and therefore a creating a greater dynamic range) and just assumed it was normal PS practice to do that.
As an example, this is one of my more recent efforts in PS using one RAW file:
and ofter a bit of work I ended up with this...
It's not the greatest effort in the world but I can't see what the recent fuss is about when I thought this was normal practice.
I don't have photomatrix but have been producing a similar (if more subtle) effect for quite a while now in Photoshop. From a single RAW file using two different exposures I've been creating two or more layers and erasing selectively or using the gradient tool to keep details in highlights and shadows (and therefore a creating a greater dynamic range) and just assumed it was normal PS practice to do that.
As an example, this is one of my more recent efforts in PS using one RAW file:
and ofter a bit of work I ended up with this...
It's not the greatest effort in the world but I can't see what the recent fuss is about when I thought this was normal practice.