flyfishingfool wrote:
Here is a before image of a dam on the Pitt river in northern California. No adjustments were made. Enlarging the dark side will indicate a tremendous amount of noise.
The after image was processed in Photomatix (3 images), ACR and PSCC. Due to the extreme noise I also used Nik Define to soften the noise.
This is an example of extreme contrast and where using HDR can be very useful.