This is a panorama of one building in the old Santa Fe Railroad maintenance complex in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 6 Nikon D2X vertical shots stitched together with about 25% overlap, 24mm focal length, about 150 degree field of view.

To contain the extreme brightness range, a 5 stop bracket was made at each position and then "averaged" with a beta version Max Lyon's "TuFuse.exe" program which is an enhanced version of the older "EnFuse.exe" program. Both those programs control very high brightness ranges without the grotesque excesses of classic HDR.

Very nice indeed. I have just recently heard of this tufuse program and it looks, buy your fine example here, to produce a more natural looking light than the typical plastic looking HDR so often seen.
On a quick side note, I have just joined this board and thought I had attached several images to my introductory message as a way of saying hello to folks. It appears that they didn't attach to my post, any insights?
Thanks, Bruce Hood

Probably an obvious question, but after you browsed to find the file, did you click "Add this Attachment"? It's useful to preview the post before you commit it, to spot any mistakes, BTW.

I am impressed by how natural that looks (other than the pano distortion, of course). The pillars on the left, to my eye, might benefit from a little more local contrast, as they are very prominent, but seem a little flat, given the lighting. You really give a great sense of space and the unique qualities of the building (and who of us would not want *that* for studio space!).

I agree, a very nice job of blending. I too find Photomatix-style tone mapping is often too garrish. I've just started to play around a little with Enfuse, hadn't heard of TuFuse before now but it looks like it coudl be interesting, with the ability to do "focus stacking" as well as exposure blending.

The only problem with Enfuse is the gosting you get if anything moves at all. Not really a problem for subject matter such as above, but very much an issue for landscape where even a faint breez can cause some subtle movements between shots.