amazing HDR photos

[BlueMeanieTSi]

I'd never use the sliders lol, well at least I don't deviate much from white/black/amount.

 

[vipgraphx]

I always use the sliders every image is different and so is the range. I do not think there is one size fits all one it comes to photomatix and sliders.

With that said I think many of those pictures were not that great maybe perhaps because of the image quality. I don't mind cartoony, saturated , overcooked non realistic, painterly looking HDR's myself but, the image has to be executed properly to pull it off. I just don't think these were. There were a few that were not bad...

 

[charlie76]

Some cool...I like

 

[Bynx]

I use about 3 or 4 of the presets and the only slider I might use is the Highlight Smoothing and/or Micro Smoothing. The rest I leave alone. Maybe thats why I cant get those cartoony pics I see so often.

 

[Jaemie]

Most of those are hard on my eyes. I don't care for that kind of PP.