I’ve had a couple of goes at Photmatix over the last few months, and thought I’d give it another whirl with one of the images from the Highgate trip. As I was working from a single image, I had to copy the original RAW image to 3 TIFFs, with one overexposed by 2 stops, one overexposed by the same amount, and then the third as shot – all pretty standard stuff.

The results are… interesting I think. The original shot has blown out highlights due to a relatively gloomy foreground, and quite a bright sky, something that would have made it an interesting candidate for a tripod based bracketed exposure:

[F8, 1/20th second, FL 15mm, ISO 200 – I managed to prop myself against an upright to get a relatively sharp result at this shutter speed]. Here is the HDR image:

It really lifts the image.