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Ariea are promoting their new HDR photo software, HDR Max, by offering HDR enthusiasts the chance of winning a spanking new 15” MacBook Pro, or a free copy of the HDR software (it’s usually $149). All you have to do is submit up to three photos processed with HDR Max to Airea before January 31st 2009. Taken verbatim from Ariea, the prizes and guidelines are:

PRIZES

• 1st prize is a new 15″ MacBook Pro 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
• 2nd and 3rd prize is a free copy of HDR MAX.

CONTEST GUIDLINES

• All entries should be sent to submissions@ariea.com.
• Entries should be submitted in the JPEG format.
• Each image should be named using the yourname_filename.jpg
• format. All entries must contain orginal work.
• The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2009 at 11:59pm PST.

I’ve given the trial version a go, which you can download for free at the site, and it looks promising. I havn’t created any HDR’s with it yet as I literally just got it working a few minutes ago, and thought I’d quickly bang out this post. You see there was a problem with a previous version of HDR Max in that it wouldn’t process Nikon NEF files, at least ones from a D300 anyway! The problem has been resolved however with the latest version (1.3.2).

I’ll likely post up a comparison between Photomatix Pro and HDR Max tomorrow to ring off 2008 – in the meatime look out for a new HDR photo post later today!