Only Lightroom will merge raw files and provide you with a composite DNG made from the original raw images though.
Varying ISO introduces noise when you don't need to do it. Photomatix is a better program for HDR, but LR will do it for you (also, you can try the Enfuse plugin for LR).Īgreed. Indoors, add -4 and +4 EV for a total of five exposures. A typical outdoor scene is okay with -2ev, 0ev, 2EV. Opinion: I was not impressed with the Lightroom HDR, in particular it didn't recover detail from shadow areas in my examples.ĭo you vary the ISO, the exposure time, or both? In what sort of steps? You can take wider exposures ranges, depending on the situation. To do this, ideally you would have the camera on a tripod and take a sequence of exposure variations, for example -2, 0 and +2. If you mean Lightroom 6 when you say "regular Lightroom", then yes it can do HDR. How do you go about taking sets of exposures for a later HDR merge? Do you vary the ISO, the exposure time, or both? In what sort of steps? I assume that you would want to leave the aperture and focus unchanged, but I have never done this.
I have two questions for anyone who as done this:ġ) Can "regular" Lightroom merge shots to produce an HDR image, or do you have to use Lightroom CC?Ģ) Whatever method I end up using to merge the shots, I figure that I can go ahead and take some sets of exposures and worry about the software part later. Since you were able to open one in PSE and since it is a tif, you will lose nothing by resaving it as a tif - either overwriting it or, using Save As and writing a new tif.I would like to experiment with High Dynamic Range "stacking". So I did not succeed in recreating the problem, but I also did not discover if the problem may have been with the way the Epson software wrote the tifs, if you indeed used it. In this case I did have an Import preview and, once again there was no problem with importing, displaying or editing.
However, since I do not have the Epson scanner software installed (normally I access the scanner through PWP, but since to do that would simply repeat my first experiment, I didn't want to do that) I used the Windows Scanner and Camera Wizard. Second I scanned a photo to a greyscale 8 bit b/w tif using my Epson 125', since I understood from your post that you wanted to go directly from scanner to LR. Although on the Import dialog page it had no preview, nevertheless it imported with no problem.
I tried to reproduce your problem in two ways:įirst I created an 8 bit greyscale tif image in my pixel editor, Picture Window Pro. In your case, I'd probably see if I couldn't convert all those old files you have into DNG, perhaps as part of the import process, or perhaps as a separate batch step. Extensive research on line is what led me to find out that the tags used to record image information in tif files can vary considerably. I ended up having to feed it from word to power point and generating the tif out of power point.
Generating the rif from with MS word resulted in a pdf coming out the other end with stripes on it. I discovered this when I had to send a pdf through a firewall and the only route the organization had licenses for expected a tif file for input.
Since what I really needed at the end was a jpg, I went back to photoshop and saved it as jpg and things are ok.
After saving the changes I'd made in photoshop, the file was no longer readable by LR. I've had the same problem after editing a tif generated by LR for edit in CS2. Unfortunately the TIF standard includes a bit under a zillion tag options, and there are many programs that generate tif files that will be incompatible with another program that isn't set up to recognize one of the tags used by the first one.