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StudioJ's point has intrigued me: I don't know if it's just my eyes but this odd halation effect does seem more evident in the stuff on the site... I haven't come across it any of the HDR images I've seen here on the forums. Furthermore, it seems as though it is there on the pre-merged images and most evident on the pano example.
Now, that series of shots does seem as if the original pics were taken with a grey grad of some sort, with the main light source being behind the tree(sorry, am referring to something that some of you haven't seen): thus, the halo effect. This has subsequently come through all the shots into the resulting final image.
Toad, Polly or anyone else: is this effect rife(ie, software-based) as StudioJ has maybe indicated? Or is it merely the logical consequence of what happens in the original shots?
Sorry to drag out this thread, yet after Irma and G's initial forays and Toad and Polly's work with this, I confess I'm catching the HDR bug(and even the spending of 40 quid sterling needs much justifying in the povertystricken halls of Castle Zig of late!)