Then, bring Luminosity down to -3.0 to try and preserve as much of the sky detail as possible. Take Strength up to 100 to boost up a little more detail. Also in our Highlights area, we are not preserving enough detail.Īs a result, we need to compress the luminosity, which will push the entire tone curve gently to the left.
First, the tonal range is too far pushed off to the right side, so we need to “deepen” the shadows a bit. This is what our image now looks like with the HDR Mid Preset applied.Īfter we have selected a preset, it is time to make some adjustments. For this particular shot, we will select the HDR Mid Preset. We need to select different presets and determine which one will get us closest to what the final HDR image should look like.
In this tutorial, we will now discuss how to process the combined HDR image of Horseshoe Bend using Photomatix Pro.Īfter we have exported the 3 exposures into Photomatix Pro, we can see that our photo is nowhere where we want it to be! It is flat and dull, but that’s okay- don’t panic.