Realtors and home-owners selling houses can increase their sales leads quickly by standing out from the crowd and using HDR photos for their listings.
It is rare to see high quality pictures on property listings. The ones that are get more leads than those who use point and shoot style cameras to take their photos. Contractors, builders, and interior decorators can benefit from high quality HDR pictures as well. The best part is, most cameras can take HDR photos.
Qtpfsgui is an HDR program that allows you to merge and tone-map HDR photos. It isn’t as simple as Photomatix but has the potential to create very similar results. If you’re new to HDR photography and are not sure about buying software at first, this is your best option.
First, download the application file for your opperating system at the Qtpfsgui website here.
For Windows you will need the lated Windows DLL Package V4 to run the program which you can download from the Qtpfsgui website here.
For Mac OS X, you will need to download QT4 to run the program which you can download here.
The interface is a bit confusing but with enough experimentation you will be able to create HDR photos without buying any additional software. For those of you looking for something that is easier to use and still very affordable, check out our guide to using Photomatix.
After the last two years offering up as much support as I can through email and in person for friends and web visitors alike, my first ebook, “How To Take HDR Photography” is finished and available for purchase! It took me over a year to write and edit the book, which would have gone much faster if I had not been so busy at work! Now for a bit of marketing speak:
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On August 1, 2008 a total solar eclipse occurred in the nothern hemisphere. Photographer Hartwig Luethenis is a true leader in the field of high dynamic range imaging. He used 28 exposures of the eclipse at different lighting intervals, resulting in an image that shows the full corona around the sun as well as the surface of the moon. Not only did he post his amazing photo on Nasa’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website, but he also wrote a tutorial about how it was made.
For another great tutorial on taking hdr pictures of an eclipse there is Catching the Light by Jerry Lodriguss.
