I have been so swamped with stuff-to-do in the offline world, I haven't had a good chance to work with Photomatix yet.
But I figured most members would get a chuckle out of my first experiments. (This post started out as a comment-reply on an earlier post.)
Lesson Number One: The positioning of objects in the images pretty much needs to match up in each image, unless you like ghosts -- like this:
Oops. (You can stop giggling now, Bryce) However, I can see that the tone quality of final result will be quite pleasing. This was done using Combine -> Highlight & Shadows, rather than HDR -> Generate.
Sub-set One of Lesson Number One: Shooting with a tripod would be a good idea.
Sub-set Two of Lesson Number One: Do not skew the images before Combining or Generating.
I can see that using photos shot with auto-bracketing would make a lot of sense. Auto-bracketed images were NOT used in my ghostly sample above, nor was a tripod, and as you see, I moved around a bit between snapping the shots. The images were shot with a V705. For the next experiment, I'll use one of the DSLRs.
