HDR SOFTWARE ?

[fifthwheel]

I guess I'm really out there but I use the HDR module in Paintshop Pro X4, which of course is brilliant if somewhat underated by those seduced by Adobe lol

 

[pridash]

Photomatix and Nik HDR Efex Pro 2 are the two best ones IMHO.

However, Photomatix is not intuitive in the slightest and you can often get lost as to what to adjust and what not to adjust. Nik is far simpler to use and gives great results.

However, both introduce noise - sometimes too much. Ideally, you would be better to do exposure blending to ensure noise is kept to a minimum. In all cases though, less is better - avoid the high saturation effects like the plague, and go easy on the sharpening.

 

[TheDrift-]

Take advantage of the fact that cs6 acr supports 32 bit tiffs, you get 10 stops ajustment to play with and all your nomal raw editing.

^^^ Thanks Just tried this, never considered using ACR/Lightroom on 32 bit images...something to experiment with