This picture does line up quite well with what I remember of a cold but sunny morning at about 9.30 end of january. To accentuate the dark parts of the church, I made an overlay layer of 22% and painted black the roof. So I painted with black over the church in the mask layer. This already looks nice, but the church is not expressive enough. In this way I was able to show the strong parts of both images, being the sky from the underexposed image and the bright and detailed foreground of the EDR image.

To merge both images I used a gradient from black to white on a mask layer. This image was ready to use as a second layer in my EDR project. So I boosted them up with a Saturation adaptation layer in PSP. Dynamic Photo-HDR is a next generation High Dynamic Range Photo Software with Pin-Warping, Anti-Ghosting, Fusion and Color Matching. There are more than 10 alternatives to Dynamic Photo-HDR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac. On this picture the sky is smooth but lacks the blue en orange gradients as seen in the EDR version. Dynamic Photo-HDR is described as 'Dynamic-PHOTO HDR is a new generation of High Dynamic Range image software with many advanced features, such as Pin Warping and Anti-Ghosting' and is a Image Editor in the Photos & Graphics category.

So I decided to take in the underexposured images I derived from the original in Lightroom to help in gaining a descent sky. It was a little bit less extensive on the 16 bit Tiff version, but even there you could clearly see it. Used 'eye catching'tone mapper with sky 3D filter to have smooth skies.Ī weak point of EDR is that slight sky gradients might not show up quite smooth.

My standard tool was Dynamic Photo HDR here. I used my common EDR process when I don't have 3 exposures available.

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