09.19.07
Playing with HDR and Tone Mapping on HTC TyTN phone images
Trey Ratcliff and his HDR photography was recently given some air time thanks to Kate Russell and BBC News 24’s “Click”. See http://stuckincustoms.com/ for some fantastic images.
I used to have a Canon T90 but gave up on 35mm film. As I’ve yet to replace it with an EOS 30D I have to make do with “snaps” from my Canon 4MP SureShot or 2MP HTC TyTN.
One nice thing about the TyTN is that I can control the camera via MortScript to give me some exposure bracketing. The not-so-nice thing about the TyTN is that it’s exposure compensation controls don’t give you quite the results you’d expect. To the naked eye many of the shots look the same. Even so, Photomatix is able to take two or more of the images, create an HDR image and then tone compress it down to something that can be displayed or printed.
In the quick 2-image test I did tonight it’s easy to see how the colours are pulled back into the shot. It looks much closer to the real thing.