Originally posted by EarlVonTapia Yea I was curious about the HDR in LR6 specifically because I read another review on it from a well known photographer (I can't find it now, but I read it a few days ago) and he panned it, basically described what you just said.
Sigh, I guess one can dream. Hopefully since it's all just software anyways, they can tweak and enhance the HDR function. It would be nice to consolidate as many functions into LR as possible to streamline workflows.
I think the HDR feature of Lightroom is meant for realistic looking photos. I just gave it a quick try, and it seems fine. But my process so far was to merge the photos to a 32 bit TIFF file that I would then edit in LR. So for me it takes away the step of perfectly matching photos (WB etc.), exporting them to TIFF, merging them, saving as TIFF, importing to LR, and then editing. Instead I can just merge them in LR. Huge time saver.
All I need is a DNG file with a much larger dynamic range than my camera can deliver, so I can get manipulate the photo.
Are you sure you need high performance cards for LR? From what I understand it only does some rather basic OpenGL processing... which is quite disappointing.
Btw., I think one of the major things slowing down LR is hard drive access speeds. Defragment frequently or better yet invest in SSDs.