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I know HDR is a bit controversial but I really like the effect sometimes and wanted to have a go at it. Since I don't have a tripod I thought I'd try the slightly cheating method of taking one RAW image and adjusting the exposure.
I found a tutorial suggesting that you could save the differently exposed photos as JPEGs or TIFFs and then use the 'merge to HDR' command in photoshop to combine them. However I have tried this with several photos using 5 exposures going from -3 to +3 stops and photoshop goes through the process then tells me that 'there is not enough dynamic range to create a useful HDR image' or words to that effect.
So - does Photoshop know I am cheating and using a single RAW image so I need to buy myself a tripod or should I save up for Photomatix or some other HDR software?
I found a tutorial suggesting that you could save the differently exposed photos as JPEGs or TIFFs and then use the 'merge to HDR' command in photoshop to combine them. However I have tried this with several photos using 5 exposures going from -3 to +3 stops and photoshop goes through the process then tells me that 'there is not enough dynamic range to create a useful HDR image' or words to that effect.
So - does Photoshop know I am cheating and using a single RAW image so I need to buy myself a tripod or should I save up for Photomatix or some other HDR software?