Being a beginner, I was just fooling around with the HDR mode on the K-70. I don't remember if I used HDR auto or HDR 1 or 2, but this was the JPEG (I shot RAW+) end result straight out of the camera, with some pp afterwards. Shot with the Pentax 18-55 WR lens.
I also tried the manual way of creating an HDR stacked image. I seperated the 3 RAW images through DCU5, loaded them into both Affinity and FDRTools, and did my best to create an image looking as bright and with (leaf) colors as vivid as seen in the JPEG image.
But whatever I tried, whichever combination, whatever slider I pulled, I wasn't able to get close to the out of camera JPEG image. Which was actually pretty close to how it actually looked.
Most of all, I had a hard time to make the foreground with the trees and leaves brighter/lighter without losing details in the sky.
Should I post-process each of the 3 individual RAW images first (creating TIFF-files?), before merging/stacking them in HDR photography software? Will that generally improve things?
Or is it safe to say that the in camera HDR mode of the K-70 isn't bad at all?
Btw, I am sure I did a million things (slightly) wrong. Camera settings maybe, composition, trying an HDR stacked image while the leaves were moving slightly of course, etc.
Last edited by koekie; 11-22-2016 at 08:08 AM.