los angeles men's fashion and beauty photographer ronald n. tan

THIS POST HAS BEEN RE-EDITED 25TH OCTOBER 2009.

Here is a pseudo-tone mapping tutorial. My 8-Bit layered TIFF file zipped. You’ll see my original corrected image, tone-mapped image, and the final image as I intended.

1) Grab my file located here:

2) Buy or download for trial Photomatix PRO: http://www.hdrsoft.com/

3) Enjoy!

In this tutorial, you’ll go from this image: (Starting image–provided). I attached this image to show how the starting image looks like. A lot of folks would stop here, but if you want to take your images to another level of dramatics, read on!

Chit-Chit. CaptureOne PRO 4.8.3. "+0 EV"

Tone-Mapped via Photomatix PRO:

Here are the Photomatix PRO settings: Detail Enhancer only.

Pseudo HDR / Tone-Mapping Part

1. Download the 0EV, -1EV, +1EV file of Chit-Chit here: Chit-Chit_0EV_-1EV_+1EV.zip

2. Make an HDR image and apply the Detail Enhancer settings from the above screen capture. You should now have an image that looks like mine (Chit-Chit Tone-mapped).

3. Correct the lens distortion via the Distort –> Lens Correction Filter in Photoshop.

4. From this, you can in any direction you wish. If you get good results, send a web-sized version to me via the contact page. I am curious what goodies you cook up!

5. Here is my version: Chit-Chit-102209-009_3_4_5HDRI_tonemapped_Tutorial.zip

Here they are again taken a few days ago on the 25th Sept.