The Daily Snap – October 24
©Darwin Wiggett
For those who have not upgraded or tried Photomatix 4.0, I highly recommend it because the program has improved significantly. The image above is and HDR photo (made from three different exposures with the Canon G11) and processed using Photomatix’s Exposure Fusion. I much prefer Exposure Fusion over the Tonemapping function in Photomatix because the former gives me realistic looking HDR’s which I prefer over the cartoonish HDR results of the latter.
Darwin Wiggett 
October 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM
I love Photomatix 4. The anti-ghosting feature is great for removing the slight motion that occurs on grass and tree leaves.
But Darwin, a larger version of your photo would help us to see all of that detail…
October 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM
good point, next time I will load a larger version. Darwin
October 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Love the light and colour , as well as the mist. Will get out and try this program, Thanks.
October 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM
I would really like to get this but couldn’t figure out from the site if it was compatible with Raw files on the Canon Rebel Xsi. Would you happen to know?
October 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM
Yep I have used RAW files from the XSI in Exposure Fusion and it works great!
DArwin
October 24, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Your right on Darwin, I just upgraded from 3.0 to 4.0 and was very pleased with the improvements made. Some are claiming the new Nik HDR as the top dog but actually it is all in how a person learns to use it, in my book Photomatix is great and still the one to have. And I agree the Exposure Fusion does a wonderful job in realistic looking results.