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Assembling a HDR sunrise or sunset time-lapse with Photomatix, part 2

Assembling a HDR sunrise or sunset time-lapse with Photomatix, part 2

From the course: Time-Lapse Video: Nighttime

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Assembling a HDR sunrise or sunset time-lapse with Photomatix, part 2

- I need to launch Photomatix. Now, you can download Photomatix from hdrsoft's webiste, if you don't have it, and give it a trial. It's a fun application, and one of the things I like about it the most, is that it has a very easy to use Batch Process. This allows you to select all of the pictures you wanna process. Simply select them by choosing Select Source Folder, and then apply settings. Of course, you might be wondering, what settings do I need? Well, I'd recommend that you develop five pictures first off, just to figure it out. So, go somewhere in the middle of your image series, and select those images, and then right-click and choose Open With, and select Photomatix Pro. You're gonna merge these together for tone mapping. There they all are, click OK. Now, this is very important. Normally, you would align the source images. But, for now, I don't want you to use that option, particularly with evening time lapse, as the sky is changing and lighting conditions change, the auto…

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