You can also adjust contrast, highlights, midtones and microcontrast individually. (Why you would want to or what function this serves I don’t know but Sebastian obviously felt it was necessary to include this option)Ī control slider allows you to adjust the overall brightness of the image. The TIFF save dialogue allows you to choose 8 or 16 bit and also to embed SNS-HDR data. This is the option for JPEG images and as you can see you can adjust the quality. You can save in JPEG or TIFF format and each of these options has individual controls for the saved files. Next is the SAVE option, in the demo version there are some size limitations on the saved file and all images are watermarked. I always used the Auto-Align feature and found it worked very well, even with hand-held brackets that I had shot.
You can also choose whether or not to reduce the size of the image and allow SNS-HDR Pro to Auto-Align. As an aside, I found SNS-HDR Pro’s RAW conversion very good and would happily use it as my RAW editor, mainly for the simplified control it gives me over the RAW images. LOAD, which as you can guess is where you select the images you want to HDR process. Pretty simple really and I’ll try to explain them in greater detail below. There is also an opportunity to batch process images. The large black area is where you view your image, at the bottom of the screen is a slider to let you zoom in or out and down the right hand side is where you load, save and adjust your images.
Just as well, because, as far as I am aware, Sebastian has not got round to writing a manual or including any help files with SNS-HDR Pro yet. So let’s look at the interface for SNS-HDR Pro which is pretty simple and self-explanatory. The results are quite natural, with some emphasis on the clouds, with little adjustments made by me. The image below is an HDR of a 3 exposure 2EV created with SNS-HDR Pro, taken on a particularly dull day.
Recently I have strived to produce more natural looking HDR images, especially as I mainly shoot landscapes, so I’ve been happy to trial a new piece of software called SNS-HDR Pro, developed by Sebastian Nibisz.įor me, it produces the most natural looking High Dynamic Range images with the minimum of effort, and yet, there are many elements of the image that I can control, such as light, colour, temperature etc, which I’ll try to demonstrate later in this blog. Each of them has their advantages and disadvantages and I know that many of you use combinations of all of them. There are plenty of well established HDR programs out there such as PhotoMatix, Dynamic Photo HDR or Artizen.