FAFO REDUX

I gave the Photoshop/NEO HDR comparison another shot today with a different set of five source images. These have somewhat different color and contrast characteristics, so I hoped for less curious results. Nay nay. If anything, these results made less sense to me than the previous set.

This is not to say that NEO should emulate Photoshop or vice versa. That would be like saying a Philips-head screwdriver should emulate a hammer. We simply need to understand how they are different to choose the correct tool for the task at hand.

As before, these HDR images are from the same five NEF (Nikon's RAW format) source images. In both cases I allowed the software to do whatever it wanted except to choose the source image to remove ghosts. Additionally, NEO has a checkbox to remove chromatic aberrations. The original processing was at full resolution and shrunk to post here. There was no cropping. There were no changes to brightness, color, or contrast.

#1 was processed in Photoshop. #2 was processed in NEO.