Lately I've spent some time experimenting with HDR tonemapping using Photomatix Pro and Photoshop. I find that most examples you bump into on the web demonstrate the ability of tonemapping to create very striking and surreal images. But actual benefit of this technique, in my opinion, is that it allows a photographer to capture a scene exactly the way it looks in real life. Granted, it is very gratifying to use tonemapping's dynamic range compression to manipulate light in a creative manner, with results like the photograph above. What seems like ... [Read on]