Comments on: An HDR Photo Contest to Win a New 15″ MacBook Pro!

By: bob merco

bob merco — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:25:38 +0000

don’t buy it. my credit card was processed in 1 minute this am. can’t get the program to activate. no reply from ariea after 6 tries. tomorrow all my trial images from hdr max get a big x on them with this explanation about their tech/customer service. I vented

By: bob merco

bob merco — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:20:22 +0000

don’t but it. my credit card was processed in 1 minute this am. can’t get the program to activate. no reply from ariea after 6 tries. tomorrow all my trial images from hdr max get a big x on them with this explanation about their tech/customer service. I vented

By: Matty

Matty — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:13:43 +0000

Trey, the contest winner photos are set as private. Please update so we can see them in their original hi-rez glory. Thanks!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:04:08 +0000

Too bad I missed it by one day, so sad. I finally got HDR working properly, I was using shutter priority mode instead of aperture priority mode. Now all is right with th world.

~Jacob

By: Chase

Chase — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:37:03 +0000

Just a quick question about contest submissions…a couple weeks ago when I checked the Ariea site, the rules said that you could “process up to 3 photos and submit them”. Now it simply says “process your photos and submit them”. I was just wondering if the rules had changed or if we were still allowed to submit 3. I didn’t want to break the rules by submitting more than were allowed. Great site by the way, I really love reading your blogs and this contest has really encouraged me to learn how to do my own HDRs…I’m having a blast with it! Thanks!

By: Victor

Victor — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:40:43 +0000

Hi i would like to know if there will be confirmation mails regarding the mails sent because I have no idea if my mail went through and i think gmail was pretty much berserk at that moment. I also didn’t want to send multiple of the same mails, in case I get disqualified but if it can’t be helped, i will send another mail in. Thank you

By: Ariea

Ariea — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:21:05 +0000

Daniel, most participants are submitting photos with minimal adjustments including resizing, saturation, brightness, contrast, etc. These will be accepted as valid entries, so feel free to use the workflow that you are comfortable with.

Birgit, if you don’t mind, would you forward this issue to support@ariea.com? There haven’t been any reports of HDR MAX crashing yet, so if you could provide as much information as possible this would help.

To all others experiencing issues, many of these (including saving issues) have been addressed and will be included in the next update which should be available over the weekend, along with a few other enhancements.

Finally, HDR MAX is still very new. However there has been an enormous amount of feedback and requests for features, many of which will be added over the next few months, so stay tuned!

Thanks!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:11:03 +0000

Here’s my query (already e-mailed the folks at Ariea, but no response): do the shots have to be submitted as-is once they’ve been run through HDR MAX, or will other adjustments in PS or Lightroom be tolerated? I’d hate to be disqualified for making cosmetic adjustments.

Thanks anyone who has some insight into this!

By: Birgit

Birgit — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:55:16 +0000

Here’s another pic that was generated with HDR MAX and submitted to the contest: http://www.flickr.com/photos/takkito/3201517398/
HDR Max does still have issues – the programms shuts down way too often. Besides that I begin to like the programm…

By: brandon

brandon — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:23:27 +0000

i gave up on hdr max, i was troubleshooting with them about my issues and then they just gave up. might as well stick with cs4 or photomatrix.

By: Luke vdH

Luke vdH — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:48:07 +0000

Anyone else having trouble getting images that have highlights really blown out and the rendered image not looking at all like the preview in HDR MAX? I can’t get my images to export cleanly to jpg. It really messes up the image….

By: Liset

Liset — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:37:50 +0000

Hi,

I downloaded HDR MAX, installed it and when I checked the free trial box, it gave me an error. I’m using Windows Vista.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:21:14 +0000

Here is my first attempt of HDR ever and used HDRMax to process my photo. In addition, I submitted this photo for the contest…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31637055@N00/3181333692/

I thought it came out well for a first attempt and hope to have more in the near future.

By: m@says: » HDR Max Contest

m@says: » HDR Max Contest — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:54:24 +0000

[...] of multiple exposures. They, along with Trey Ratcliff from StuckInCustoms.com, are holding a contest to see who can, using Ariea’s new program HDR Max, create the best HDR image. So, naturally, [...]

By: Greg Anzalone

Greg Anzalone — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:54:43 +0000

Just downloaded the trial software… It is telling me that my trial has expired. (Running OS X 10.5.6) The trial didn’t last 30 minutes, let alone 30 days!

By: Matt Lloyd

Matt Lloyd — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:15:22 +0000

Yeah, I got one good one out of if too before it decided to start outputting a picture that looks totally different than the preview in HDR Max.

By: Peter Talke

Peter Talke — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:12:25 +0000

HD MAX is solid….here is one of my recent shots….

http://talkephotography.com/p431818424/h19c44ec8#h19c44ec8

By: Matt Lloyd

Matt Lloyd — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:05:15 +0000

I have 10.5 and I don’t know what to do. My first pic turned out great. But every other one is crap. I don’t know what to say except I think that this program has potential, but still needs a lot of work.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:55:33 +0000

@Matt

I’m having the exact same problem, what are you running it on? I’m using MAC OSX 10.4.11 and HDR Max 1.3.4.

I’ve emailed Ariea and they were very helpful in suggestions but unfortuantely nothing has worked so far.

This is really annoying me as it gives great results prior to saving

By: Matt Lloyd

Matt Lloyd — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:20:12 +0000

P.S. I don’t have the same problem with Photomatix.