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The REAL bottom line is as much as we want to Handhold HDR brackets. So that begs the question “Why not just always have de-ghosting turned on?” Sound reasonable, but there are instances that de-ghosting can cause an increase in noise in certain areas if the ghosted area is underexposed in the selection that is chosen to de-ghost. This really helped almost all the Programs to achieve a perfect or near perfect alignment (not all programs do de-ghosting). And since so few really passed the test, I added a second pass with de-ghosting added in. This STILL proved to be a VERY hard test and really showed the metal of each.

So back to the drawing board and I instead did a true hand-held test with instead of a linear movement, I used a twisting action.

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It turns out that practically no software could pass this test – Perfectly. For most of the software even if it did poorly on Alignment, turning on de-ghosting helped with that also and all would have passed, so I took that out of the equation for this test….OR, so I thought For this test I had De-ghosting turned OFF. So, I placed my camera on a Really Right Stuff Nodal Slide which is about 8” long and I slid the camera to 3 places along the nodal slide to simulate (exaggeratedly) a person swaying side to side while shooting their brackets.

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But many people, especially with the high ISO capabilities of current cameras, like to handhold their bracketing. In fact, there are times when turning off alignment on a perfectly shot tripod image will be sharper.

If you use a tripod and practice good photographic and tripod skills, alignment should not be an issue. But I wanted some tests to show what differences there may be.įor ALIGNMENT, I wanted to simulate hand holding of the camera. In fact, most of the software will work just fine how you typically would use it. These tests are NOT typical of Real World. I came up with some torture tests for first 3 conditions. *Note, not all the software in this shootout does this last step and that may require you to use another editor of your choice (Lightroom, Photoshop, Luminar etc.) In this test if the software did not have editing capabilities, Lightroom was used for that purpose.

The final editing/Processing of that blended image for the finished look.

Blend the images together, usually in 32 bit, using sophisticated algorithms and masking to provide a standard dynamic range image to further process.

Remove Chromatic Aberrations that may occur on edges especially in corners of the frame when we merge multiple images.

Remove ghosts from any moving objects over the time that those multiple images took place.

Align the images so that there is no edging, if our tripod or handholding was not exact.

We put them together to make the final image. Once we have captured that HDR scene by photographing multiple images (Typically 3 – 7) shot at different exposures (varying shutter speeds). Remember, we are NOT making an HDR Image, we are making a Standard Dynamic Range image from the capture of a High Dynamic Range Scene. So here you have it: 8 HDR Software Roundup.Īll HDR Programs have a few basic functions necessary to make a finished image. YOU make that choice, and it WILL be different for different people since HDR styles are very spread apart from Mild to Wild and not all, do all. And I thought a good way to do this was to do the head to head, Give some opinions on how they performed but in the end NOT TELL YOU, “This one is the best!” or even give you a “Top 3” I’ll give you the info and the results. But the truth of the matter is, affiliate deals are not what they were at one time and I make far more of my living selling Prints now. This is why I most times would just review one piece of software at a time, do the FTC announcement to let you know that I may or may not have a financial connection to the company and then give you my honest opinion of that piece of software. So if I don’t promote things, I also don’t eat. So if I say something is good, how do you know it’s not just me pushing something I possibly could make money on? Secondly, It’s a conflict of interest to myself since photography and this website are my only means of making a living. In the first way, I represent.as an affiliate, some of the companies reviewed here. Mostly because it is a conflict of interest, in two ways. I have long avoided doing a head to head comparison like this. *Note: You can skip reading this next part if you just want to get on with the review.

In this article we will compare 8 of the most popular HDR Processing Software currently available including: