Real Looking HDR images with Photomatix Pro 5:
I Have seen Many photographers who have many good photos but they don't know how to process the HDR image which is quite real looking and gives a realistic feel to the viewer. Many believe that HDR means over-contrasted, over-saturated, over-sharpened photos. But in reality, HDR is really just blending multiple images together. And today i am providing a good new tool to process HDR in very realistic way. which will not look very over-saturated or over-contrasted nor over-sharpened.
This tool is Photomatix Pro 5 For windows That will perfectly help you in your work of processing the multiple exposures. The Above image is processed with photomatix in total 9 exposures are blended to get the perfectly balanced image no over-sharpened no over-saturation nothing. A more Realistic more natural feel of the image is intact. Plus the images are taken at interval of five secs for the motion effects of clouds in the image. the clouds look way more dense and dramatic in HDR and thanks to this almighty software...
I have process the images in photomatix pro 5.5 and i got the above processed photo which is a very realistic image. so Every photographer should try this software to blend the multiple exposures in a smooth way and very naturally.
then brought the 6 images into Photomatix Pro, and the Default option gave me a dark, yet detailed image that I could start with. While I could’ve used Lightroom’s Photo-Merge option, I wanted a little more control over the outcome of my image.
With the image still dark, I brought up the Micro-smoothing slider as well. This made the sky smoother and less dramatic.
Finally, the green leaves were just too green for me, so I bumped up the Black Point slider so these were darker. I also increased the Smooth Highlights and White Point measurements to make the clouds pop just a bit more, and to make them a more even throughout the photograph.
So this is the story of post processing this image into a beautiful image and a very realistic looking HDR image too.
Thank you.

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