Ignoring tonemapping, and overkilling, and turning your photo into a cartoon like surreal sideshow, I tried to see how quick I could generate a high dynamic range image, from five photos I have taken in the Swartland area last weekend. I used only opensource (and/or freely available) applications; Hugin (Enblend/Enfuse) and gimp (to tune the curves a bit). I didn’t do any special tweaks, I merely selected my five candidate photos, and dragged and dropped them on the enfuse icon, then took the output image and tuned it’s curves in the Gimp…
That’s it…
I used these five images:
And the final result, after barely 2 minutes of work, was this:
You may note, and criticize that I haven’t followed due procedure. True, The five LDR exposures aren’t evenly seperated, nor do they cover the whole spectrum, but what is due procedure anyway in art, and even more importantly, why is it needed for a under-2-minutes opensource hdr demo?
Be as it may, I think I achieved my point. It CAN be done, and it looks great.
