Merging 3 jpgs into HDR

[maccboy]

I have been to Anglesey specially to take some drone pictures of the Menai bridge, one of which I'll frame as a present for my mum. When I've uploaded bracketed pictures to Google Photos previously, Google has automatically made them into an HDR. It sees they are the same, with varying exposures, and creates an HDR image from them. Google doesn't do this any more and I need to find a simple way of merging three pictures into an HDR. Can anyone please recommend a way of doing this easily? I don't really want to spend hours learning the vagaries of a photo package for this one job! I've tried Luminance HDR but the results are awful - or I'm not doing it right! Thanks.

Edited by maccboy on Thursday 5th March 13:15

[miniman]

If you email them to me or stick the high-res images somewhere I should be able to do it in Lightroom for you.

[maccboy]

miniman said:

If you email them to me or stick the high-res images somewhere I should be able to do it in Lightroom for you.

Thanks very much. You have mail!

[miniman]

Have sent back to you, just in case it ended up in spam.

[maccboy]

Thanks for your help. That's made a real difference to the look of the photo.

[maccboy]

Here is the finished article. It has plastic on it at the moment so it's a bit reflective!

[sgrimshaw]

Should you want to do more of this type of processing, I'd recommend you take a look at the Franzis / Projects Software range of packages ... their HDR Projects is a doddle to use, and not expensive, they also have a free trial period.

These days they are also branded under the Ashampoo brand

https://www.ashampoo.com/en-gb/hdr-11


There's actually a fully free older version .... https://www.projects-software.com/Giveaway-Deal

No connection with the company, just a long term happy camper.

[maccboy]

sgrimshaw said:

Should you want to do more of this type of processing, I'd recommend you take a look at the Franzis / Projects Software range of packages ... their HDR Projects is a doddle to use, and not expensive, they also have a free trial period.

These days they are also branded under the Ashampoo brand

https://www.ashampoo.com/en-gb/hdr-11


There's actually a fully free older version .... https://www.projects-software.com/Giveaway-Deal

No connection with the company, just a long term happy camper.

Thanks. I'll take a look!