Nice shot's John, really like 3 and 5.

I find Photomatix and HDR in general can produce some real pleasing result in monochrome, this shot was produced with three bracketed exposures in Potomatix:

Mine just arrived, remembered to bring a charged battery and lenses to work, but forgot memory card Doh!

Just checked with SRS, K-3 will be arriving on my desk tomorrow... WoooHooo

Hi There

Has anyone got any advice on what the quickest way to get up to speed with PS CC (or CS6) please. Mostly interested in the compositing/image manipulation side of things as LR covers almost all of my photographic requirements.

There are SO many tutorials available out there is hard to see the wood for the trees. Ideally I'd pay for some one-2-one training but I suspect that will be out of my price range (even if I know who has any good) so I'm thinking maybe some online learning which I don't mind paying for if it's good and probably willing to spend £100 or so...

Unfortunately I've never really been one to work my way through a book, so looking for a more direct route

thanks in advance

Another plus pont for LR here. It's the only piece of software that permanently stays open on my mac and I simply couldn't work without it now.

Is anyone going to the Pentax Open day at SRS ? I wonder if it will be available to but there and then !

"Horses for Courses" David, while the 1st image is overdone (intentionally so) I do actually quite like them. More interesting the the rather flat image that I started with Always surprising how much you can get from an underexposed RAW file though !

Just downloaded and this, paid a donation and had a bit of a play. These are the results of a quick 10 mins messing around:

One of three original images fed into the process (this one is one stop under exposed)



Test 1 - Photomatix Pro HDR software



Test 2 - Enfused Image (using defaults)



Test 3 - Processing the above under exposed image with LR, no HDR software



I've spent a few mins processing each of the images in LR after importing from Enfuse and Photomatix but not really spent a huge amount of time on them. Enfuse definitely produces more natural looking images and better than you could achieve than just using a single exposure. Photomatix certainly has more options to play with and you can get "more interesting' effects

Over all Enfuse (and the LR plugin) are very good and certainly worth the "donation", I paid $5 and starting to feel a little stingy now lol

Have fun

No, but it looks interesting. Might try that this evening

Great Images, I was there on Sunday and my pictures are rubbish in comparison