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Something to warm up all those poor souls shivering under blankets of snow. A road in Kangaroo Valley, taken a couple of years back with the Canon S3IS, at last turned into a shot to be shared, thanks to Oloneo Photoengine hdr and tone mapping. (The current Beta version is free and has not crashed on me or given me any other problem either. It opens my Pentax raw files, it reads the exif (At least one of the other softwares I'm trialing does not read the exif from the Pentax raw.) and it is pretty straightforward to use.)

Enjoy.

Mikel.

PS, to forestall any additional suggestions about the black strips or alternate croppings or using "stretch to fit" or whatever - I'd rather not have the black strips but I generally try to post a shot that can be used as a desk top image without further ado and my screen aspect is 1680x1050 so that's what I re-create for Caedes. In this case what's in the image is exactly cropped the way I wanted, in what I wanted, out what I didn't need. Stretch to fit sometimes works but it just looked wrong when applied to this particular file, maybe it only looked wrong to me because I knew what the original looked like. :) So, yeah, I wish , in the field, I'd held my camera more level and not had to fix a tilt and thus lost valuable cropping space and was left with the black strips to get it DT ready. Thanks to the public and private expressors of legitimate opinion on this matter, please keep the honest feedback coming.