A new HDR tone mapping program just has been released. This program called Essential HDR is very quick and easy to use. It will align and process RAW files right out of the camera and get the colour balance right. There is 2 tone-mapping algorithms, one called Fast Tone Balancer and one called Detail Reveler. This program has only a few sliders for tone mapping, but they work, making creating HDR images very easy. You also get the usual colour balance, brightness and contrast sliders. I gave a little sharpening and a little contrast boost to these quick examples in Lightroom after exporting the images as a .tiff files. There is a 30% discount for the first 1000 buyers and of this writing the discount is still good, but it has been selling since I think the July 18, so hurry. That makes the price only $49 USD.
See also this post about comparing Essential HDR and Photomatix, with a Photomatix example.
This image was created using 3 files -2, 0, +2 f/stops using the Fast Tone Balancer.
This image was created using 3 files -2, 0, +2 f/stops using the Detail Reveler.
This image was created using 3 files -2, 0, +2 f/stops using the Fast Tone Balancer.
This image was created using 3 files -2, 0, +2 f/stops using the Detail Reveler.
All these pictures were taken hand held with a Cannon 40D, 6 frames/sec. You can see this program can align the images properly. I recommend this program. Get it before the price goes up!
Here is the LINK
