Quote Originally Posted by Mad Aussie View Post
You'll find if you upload to a flickr or photobucket album or similar and link here the photos come out a bit sharper. This forum seems to reduce the quality ever so slightly and we see as a bit softer image than it should be.
Not only do the photos soften up, but they become very desaturated as well. Kind of kills the purpose of HDR. You will still see the results but if you upload anything through the medium on this site, it will always look MUCH better on your computer prior to the upload.

A heads up. If you are using photoshop to create the HDR images, always make sure you are converting the image into an 8 or 16 bit image. 32 bits is too high for your monitor to show, and it will not print properly. Also, moving it down to 16 bits allows you to play with the local adaptation, which is basically how to achieve your desired effect.