Weird area when merging to HDR in LrC

[mclynn]

I’ve come across something weird in LrC. When I merge 3 images (raw format) with HDR (using Control-h), the result has one strange area that’s darker than the rest (see the darker orange swaths in the attached images). None of the original images have any deviation in that area.

If I redo the merge, the strange area is there again, but is shaped differently and not always in the exact area. I’ve tried merging other images and gotten the weird results on those as well, so It’s not because of the images themselves.

I restarted my Mac (OS 14.7.1), which made no difference. I had the latest version of LrC (14.1.2) when this began to happen, so I uninstalled it and reverted to the previous version (14.1.1), but the same thing happened, so I can’t blame it on the newer version.

I have quite a few merges to do and have no idea what to try next. Any ideas of what’s going on?

Thanks!

[GoldingD · Accepted solution]

What was your deghost setting?

And did you try changing that

[mclynn]

Actually, I did eventually figure that out myself. I went back to try merging again and this time, noticed that the Deghosting was set to High. I changed it to None and got the desired results.

So glad it was something simple, but bummed that I hadn't seen that right away.

Thanks!