Photomatix Pro processing: Hightlights & Shadows Auto Adjust, HDR Tone Compression. The HDR experiment continues. This is my first use of Tone Compression, which does not introduce additional noise into the image.

What I’m not understanding yet: images that look great in Photomatix Pro lose saturation when brought into Photoshop to be resized and saved as jpegs. That will be tomorrow’s exploration.

Here is a link to a larger example: hs-auto-ark-rose-tone-compression-copy.jpg