Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

> I've never been 
> successful with PS HDR, so this was with Photomatix. I simply made 
different file versions 
> from that scan, increasing contrast and changing brightness similar 
to what a bracket 
> might have looked like letting extremes go, then combined them with 
Photomatix. If I 
> recall I had to put in some fake exposure data. Obvioulsy 
registration is a non-issue.
> It only got part way there, I wound up working it as a new scan 
with masked adjustment 
> layers etc., and layered back in the original scan in areas, but it 
gave a good starting point 
> I doubt I could achieved manually. One exposure, one scan.
> The point is, when all else fails, break the rules... use tools for 
what they seem to be good 

I've used this same technique with 4x5 Velvia when the scale of the 
image couldn't be handled by my cheap Epson 2450. Making two scans 
with different gamma I was able to composite the two scans with 
Photomatix and get the full range of the tranparency.

So yeah the technique works.

Don Bryant