And how about HDR Expose

Posted by Philip in Follow-up

I got a comment about another HDR application by Unified Color entitled HDR Expose.  And after only testing it on one set of images, I must say I don’t like it yet.  It took it nearly 20 minutes to  merge the 3 RAW images when both Photomatix and CS5 only took a couple of minutes on the same machine.  I know that one data point isn’t a good reason to completely denounce them.  So I’m not.  The proof is in the image.  After all if the image is that much better, then the extra processing time is worth it.  But I found the image to be noisy.  Fortunately they have their own noise reduction algorithm which seems to work rather well.

So after my one image test I can say there’s nothing really endearing me to HDR Expose yet.  But I’m going to have to test it on a lot more images.  It could be my computer got hit by a stray cosmic ray and caused it to process really slow.  And my ignorance of their interface is also a problem.  I’m going to give it a fair shake over the month and see if it performs better than I originally tested.  Below is the same image processed through HDR Expose.