I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Still looking for good HDR software
October 22, 2008
I’ve been toying with Photomatix for a while now, and I would say that I’ve been impressed with it overall, and for the most part. But it has a few obvious issues, not the least of which is that it often produces very artifacty images. And by artifacty, I’m not referring just to increased digital noise — I’m talking about ugly, hyper-sharpened black spotting on areas with lots of microcontrast.
So I’m experimenting with Enfuse now, which purports to be a more powerful blending algorithm, capable of generating composite images that have been bracketed not only on the basis of exposure, but also on the basis of depth of field/focus. And it claims to be able to do so without producing the same quality degradation that other “conventional” HDR methods can cause.
There’s a Mac-only GUI for Enfuse, which also incorporates Hugin’s powerful image alignment algorithm, that I am currently experimenting with, called ImageFuser. The good Reader can learn more about this software at the developer’s website.
Now, any guesses as to how long my 1 GHz Powerbook G4 will take to render an HDR image, using Enfuse, out of three TIFF-format images, each of 8 megapixel resolution?
