![]() ![]() In my opinion, HDR is better as an exacto knife, rather than an ax, and should be used differently for each image, essentially. Instead of purely walking through this program, I’m going to share my experience as I’ve worked through, processing one of my shoots using the first image I processed. ![]() I’m going to take a slightly different tack on this review. ![]() Tick the applicable boxes and click “Create HDR”. You’ll be given the option to select Alignment, Ghost Reduction (I use my EV0 image as a reference by default) and Chromatic Aberration correction. All you need to do is open Aurora (or run it as a plugin from a host program like Aperture, Lightroom or Photoshop), navigate to and select the image(s) you’d like to work on. You can use a single image, or a bracketed series. To start, if you’d like to work through this and follow along with me, you can download a free trial of Aurora HDR Pro from Macphun HERE. Well, I chose to process my most recent shoot using solely Aurora HDR Pro, and here’s what I found out about that program along the way… When shooting an interior space, I want to take advantage of the actual dynamic range, getting detail in the highlights and shadows when and where I feel necessary, not just tone mapping for a more dramatic effect. My goal has always been a natural representation of light and space, which as many know, can be tricky when tonemapping images through an HDR program. Much of my actual paid photography work falls into the interior design and hospitality realm, working with that wonderful group of folks at the ELK Collective. Over my personal journey with HDR, I’ve used quite a few programs (HDR Soft/Photomatix, Everimaging HDR, HDR Efex, Photoshop…) and when Macphun and Trey Ratcliff recently announced Aurora HDR for Mac users, I was very interested. Time is money, and the more I can save myself (and price my time to the client accordingly) the better off I’ll be. ![]() I’d like to say that clients will happily pay for 4 or 5 hours while you set up and shoot, but I’ve not found many that will A) have that much down time to shoot unless I want to shoot at 3 in the morning, which I totally don’t) or B) have the budget for, or see the value in a photographer that takes that long to shoot a space. I find the ability to bracket and merge in post a valuable tool when needing to be in and out of a space in a shorter amount of time (as opposed to setting up multiple lights for each and every shot which can limit the total amount of finished shots in the same time period). For the other stuff though, I do love me a nicely balanced, merged exposure and have for many, many years. I too enjoy capturing and processing final images using single frames for 90%+ of my own photography. If you’re not into it, I totally understand and respect that. It is on the eastern side of the Sydney city centre.While the practice of merging exposures is a topic of much debate, I don’t really care. An ealry morning view of Hyde Park Walkway, a fig-lined avenue in Hyde Park, Sydney. Archibald, owner and editor of The Bulletin magazine, who arranged to have it built by French artist Francois-Léon Sicard. A rainbow passes through the Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park, Sydney. The world of Instagram, Nik Software and On One Software to name a few, allow everyone to be more creative. The Archibald Fountain with a rainbow passing through it late afternoon and the Hyde Park Walkway early morning are my first photos to be processed in Aurora. I would still recommend though using Lightroom to keep an organised workflow and archive. The ability to have complete control over your HDR look, the fact that the whole HDR process can be done in Aurora without having to go into Photoshop or Lightroom and a single image can be easily processed without having to always worry about bracketing your exposures especially when movement is involved. So there are three points that appeal to me about Aurora HDR Pro, they are:. What I am not keen on is overdone HDR, which to me does not look real or appealing and Aurora allows you complete control over this. This photo editing software has been developed by Macphun and renowned HDR photographer Trey Ratcliffe. I have gradually got more interested in shooting HDR photography, love the results of HDR on the I Phone 6 Plus. ![]()
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