Comments on: Photomatix HDR Export Plug-in for Lightroom

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:23:29 +0000

Photomatix rules, but the Plugin sucks. Installing it with Admin-rights installs the Plugin for Administrator and not for all Users. When i Copy it to my c:\ Documents and settings… Modules the plugin throws an error and the Files are not in Photomatix. That is lame.

Maybe the Plugin is beta but i also haven�t found a Bugtracker in franzis Homepage

By: Rene

Rene — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:13:15 +0000

Matt

I watched your online class in Kelby Training for HDR but I could not find where you had listed the camera presets you mentioned on the video #3 How to shoot for HDR.

By: LightningPaul

LightningPaul — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:16:14 +0000

@ Frank:

A recommended book is: The HDRI Handbook of Christian Bloch.

By: Jim Lewis

Jim Lewis — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:23:53 +0000

Very cool.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:34:55 +0000

Regarding NAPP I live in the UK and have nearly joined several times but have been put off by the discounts only being available in the US for Adobe products, so as well as the high price here (for Adobe stuff) we cannot participate in the discount scheme, does this also apply to the Photomatix discount? Regarding HDR can anyone recommend a book. I see several on Amazon but cannot tell if they are any good.

By: Ramelli

Ramelli — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:09:24 +0000

I have been using photomatix for 2 years now and 90 % of my shots I do HDR, at first I went for the harry potter look, later on I cooled down the effect so that it is not too much.

HDR is still the best technology out there to get the sky right and the rest of the landscape too.

check out some of the pictures on my website:

I will definitly get this plug in right away !

http://www.photoserge.com

By: Timothy Mathews

Timothy Mathews — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:29:28 +0000

Oh if you want to see my video, when it’s done, send me your youtube name and I’ll add you to my friends list, and you can see it.
Keep up the great reporting Matt. When are you going to do another episode of Lightroom Killer Tips? You’ve done 2 web only videos with Scott: the CS4/lightroom 2 conspiracy and the one on Scott’s new Lightroom book. I have his CS3 book. I have his lightroom 1 book but by the time I got it, we were up to LR 1.4 or so and I’d watched lynda.com’s training with Chris Orwig. Does the new book offer much for someone a major geek and long time lightroom user that isn’t covered by lynda.com or Kelby training videos?
If so I’ll pick up a copy. I entered the photowalk hoping to win one, but sadly the award went to someone who the team deemed unqualified, so there was no real winner in Sydney and no chimping. In fact not 1 comment from others on the walk on 1 of my photos. That should be a requirement if there is another one.
Still I enjoyed the walk but what totally blown away with how many pros were on it. Also managed to get harassed for having a tripod because it looked like “serious photo gear.” nevermind I was shooting with a d50 and the 2 people with me were shooting with d200′s and better. It was right under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the most photographed parts of Sydney. I asked him what ordinance I was breaking and he just babbled. Eventually he ran out of steam, the guys with me told him to bugger off, and all was well.
The others took pics of the guy. heh. check out the Sydney photowalk group on flickr to see my pics and those of the others.
Oh and one more thing.
Tell Scott, next time he gives you a hard time, that imho, and I’m sure many others, you’re the hottest guy on Photoshop user TV. I’m sure you’re secure enough to take that as a compliment and not get weirded out.
Timothy Mathews
TM

By: Timothy Mathews

Timothy Mathews — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:15:27 +0000

HDR is the wave of the future. In under a decade, I predict HDR enabled cameras that can capture HDR in one click. Yes it can be overdone, but it’s great for say a church with a stained glass window. I did an HDR of one of the oldest churches in Sydney. I wanted to be able to see the original timber roof as well as the stained glass windows. The only way to get both was HDR.
I’ve even done a similar technique in video. I did a short film about the area where I live which is all about contrast. On the street level there are goth shops and punk hair stylists, but abobe them are 19th century Facades. So I went into photoshop, applied a black and white effect to one of the buildings and mixed the two exposures. My only problem, and if someone knows the answer, please let me know. I need to animate the layer mask. Is that possible? Otherwise I have to convert it to stills and work on it in shake, which, being a pro compositing program, lets you keyframe masks and many other awesome things. It’s due Monday night, Sydney time so Tuesday around midnight PDT. Any suggestions will be most appreciated.
Timothy Mathews
spacedog@cinedependent.com
Awesome that there’s a plugin for photomatix. I set it up as an external editor and did it that was but am agree it should output the raw files to photomatix, not tiffs.
Maybe they’ll come out with another version. In the mean time i guess it’s bridge still.
Pity.

By: Andy Rea

Andy Rea — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:52:42 +0000

Have any of you tried Dynamic HDRi from Mediachance.com? I was curious to find out how good it is. Please let me know where I can find some good reviews. I know they are a relatively unknown company but some of their features look really cool. I have downloaded the trial but I am still a novice when it comes to HDR so I need some advice. Thanks

By: Robbie R.

Robbie R. — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:59:45 +0000

While were on this crusade to help the folks at Photomatix (love the program by the way) make the LR plugin better can we add Adobe to the list.

Those Adobe User Forums have been taken over by a bunch of Adobe-can-do-no-wrong types. If you try to bring up a legitimate point about the problems in LR2 you get castigated by a bunch of thugs. I’ve looked into the backgrounds of some of the posters over there and some are very closely related to product development for Adobe. I doubt they are being paid by Adobe (I hope that Corporate America would not allow such behavior by its employees) but seem to be “groupies” of Adobe who’s manhood feels threatened whenever a problem is addressed. I’ve noticed several people have commented on experiencing this unprofessional behavior over at the Adobe Forums so I suspect that more people would be posting about their LR2 issues if they didn’t think they would have to get into a scrap with a bully.

The problems with LR2 are real, as Adrian shares above, and I’ve taken Adobe to task for using LR2 as paying Beta testers for their ACR5 development all the while not offering a discount on CS4 upgrades to early LR2 adopters (many of which are NAPP members) (Note: a discount is currently available to late adopters who have held out for CS4 but not LR2 users who bought the program back in the summer and early fall) . I hope that the great guys over at NAPP never get so comfortable with Adobe that they lose their will in being able to call them out when they have dropped the ball.