Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ilford100" <robertrowe2@...> 
wrote:
>
> So far I have managed to ignore HDR imaging, but curiosity has got the best of me.  I was 
> wonder1ing if anyone has used HDR compositing techniques, then tone mapped back to 
grey 
> scale.  More importantly, how did the image(s) look?  If you have such an animal, can you 
> post a link to it?
 
Hello Robert, I've played with it a bit both through color to b&w conversions and infrared to 
b&w conversions.  I've gotten some very, very, rich midtones using both PSCS3's HDR 
conversion and Photomatix's tone mapping.  It's probably lack of experience with both but I 
also get very posterized highlights and shadows with both.  I think there is a lot of potential 
there for very rich tones, sort of like pulling Tech Pan, but lots and lots of bugs to work out.  
It's not very high on my list right now but come this winter with some free time I think it's 
worth more exploration.

All you can do is give it a try;)