[ubuntu-in] All work and no play makes Linux a dull way :-)

[K Ramnarayan]

Hi

Recently some of us were reading a book on Digital Landscape Photography. One 
of the most interesting innovations was the use of HDR imaging. The Book of 
course talked only about some proprietory software (it is also available as 
freeware trial download and it plasters its watermark all over the output)

A friend said Quote "does ubuntu have such software and can it do the job"

A quick search of synaptic threw up a GUI for HDR manipulation
qtpfsgui

(what a mouthful)

http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/

am quite sure its available in the Ubuntu repos.

And as luck would have it in my constant quest for some imaging software i 
must have installed this as well, so in a matter of minutes we had processed 
some images and WOW what output- absolutely fantastic. It needed some playing 
around a bit but at then end it was both worth the (small ) effort and the huge 
long term learning.

So for those of you interested in creative photography i think don't waste any 
time just read up some tutorial and go out with your cameras and do the 
needful the output will both startle and really amaze you.

To make sure you get the most amazing output to start with use the Fattal 
algorithm, once you get hooked you can start playing around with the others.

I am hooked and look forward to using this tool often for fun as well as some 
creative results.

enjoy

ram