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1. -100 highlights +100 shadows (or close) kind of gets the job done but results are invariably vomit inducing or to put it mildly look very tonemapped which is the negative aspect of your awful looking 'HDR' from the old days. It pretty typically comes down to a lot of local adjustments and blending frames whether working from individual frames or HDR composite file.Sunset HDR is a marmite thing I think. Personally I’d go with the -2 and lift the shadows a bit so some more of the foreground detail is visible. More exposures will give you more options. Usually I find I get better results by working with the best exposure than trying to generate an HDR image.
Personally I like HDR, simply because a photograph often does not look like the scene I saw.Just playing with my Fuji X-T30 with a decent sunset outside my window. I don't have the newest capture one so did the HDR in affinity photo. In the -2 picture the sky has some deep oranges and this information is lost even in the HDR. The foreground looks good as expected. Is sunset hdr another skill on top of normal hdr? I metered manually with the reveni spot for the 0 exposure then took a -2, 0 and +2
Would more brackets improve it all can more be done in post with a better program more time? Would the deep orange sky look weird with the lightened foreground anyway?
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Oh yeah i just stuck the camera out of my window to see what i could do with the exposure- thats why i left the giant scaffolding pole in ha1. -100 highlights +100 shadows (or close) kind of gets the job done but results are invariably vomit inducing or to put it mildly look very tonemapped which is the negative aspect of your awful looking 'HDR' from the old days. It pretty typically comes down to a lot of local adjustments and blending frames whether working from individual frames or HDR composite file.
2. HDR merge does not have any effect on the final result, other than cleaned up shadows and retained higlights and the negatives include ghosting, potentially quite bad and a lot of it. Watch out for trees, cars, people etc. Chances are you will manually need to clean up from one of the frames.
These highlights are super strong and bright and it involves a lot of steps to keep them under control. This light doesn't add anything to the scene, let alone the scene doesn't look very interesting. In the first instance get the timing and composition in order and you may not need any of that.