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HDR - The Easy Way

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This is my tutorial on how to make an HDR image.
Unlike other tutorials which may involve a fairly high amount of guesswork or (gasp) painting to achieve the result, this method is easy to achieve and involves no painting.

The tools used are a camera shooting in RAW mode, qtpfsgui (also called Luminance HDR) to create tonemaps, and GIMP (to compile the final result)

Tutorial created using LibreOffice Impress, exported as PDF.
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:star::star::star::star::star-half: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

A concise, clear, interesting tutorial.
It addresses what can be defined the most common drawback of hdr and tonemapping, that often produce images which look somehow un-natural, due to color over-saturation and light halos along darkest edges.
Since the tutorial gives no detailed explanation of what hdr and tonemapping are, the described technique can sound a little obscure to non experienced photographers (or, better, to photographers who are not so familiar with complex post processing operations), but nonetheless every step is well explained and the flow can be easily followed by anyone, even if it requires some manual step (a little more than clicking on a do-it-all button).
The programs used by the author are multiplatform (they are available for windows, mac and linux), and this is a valuable plus. And, best of all, they are free software (free as in speech, not just as in beer), so we have a way to experiment with hdr at no cost, and those who can code may also improve the way the software work and the results it produces.
Thank for sharing your knowledge.