HDR Software: Photomatix vs. HDR PhotoStudio 2

(Tip: If you don’t know what HDR is, then check out my blog post, HDR: Love It or Hate It.)

I read a review by Debbie Grossman in the April 2010 issue of PopPhoto Magazine of Unified’s HDR PhotoStudio 2 software.  Overall, she highly recommends HDR PhotoStudio 2, saying that it has a much simpler interface, is [...]

Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 13: Arches National Park, End-of-the-Road

Alas, this is our last morning in Utah before heading home to Washington, DC, so we definitely had to get up for the sunrise.  Of all the places we’ve seen around Moab, I must say that Turret Arch by the North and South Windows is my hands down favorite.  It’s where we started on Day [...]

HDR: Love it or hate it?

I was interested to see the results recently of an HDR survey (love it or hate it) on Michael Zhang’s PetaPixel blog.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with HDR, it stands for high dynamic range imaging.  A digital camera sensor can only handle so much tonal range between light and dark.  If a scene [...]