HDR: Adjustments in Photoshop or Lightroom?

Are any creative/optimization options lost by taking images from Lightroom, sending them to Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop to create the file, keeping it a 32-bit file and sending it back to Lightroom for further adjustments compared to keeping it in Photoshop, converting it to a 16-bit file and using the HDR Toning adjustments in Photoshop? Will either strategy result in a better final result as a large print?

Working on the 32-bit image in Lightroom will give you far more flexibility and enable you to do a lot more. Julianne Kost produced a quick tip for Lightroom 4.1 that explains the benefits of doing your HDR images this way. You might want to take a look. Of course everything she shows still holds true in Lightroom 5.
Quick Tip – Creating 32-bit (HDR) Images in LR 4.1 | The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost | Adobe TV

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I've recently upgraded from CS5 to CC after purchasing a Nikon D7100 over christmas and thus needing the latest versions fro RAW support (Nikon NEF).
My problem is I am experiencing colour shift between Photoshop and Lightroom after upgrading. I have set Lightroom to use 16-bit ProPhoto RGB images when editing in Photoshop. My computer is a Late 2012 MacMini with an Apple Thunderbolt Display.
I originally posted this in the Photoshop forum and have moved it over here after being recommended to do so.
The image below shows the problem, where the colour is correct in Photoshop, but not in Lightroom.
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Dan.

A “raw” HDR image has darks that are too dark to see detail in and lights that are too bright to see any detail in. The process of “tone mapping” is what scrunches all the floating point values into the normal range of black to white. Once an image is tone mapped its pixel values all fall into the range of zero to whatever the maximum value is for white in a 16-bit or 8-bit format and it can be saved as such. The 32-bit floating point image is supposed to be temporary on the way to an 8- or 16-bit image. Personally I save the original 32-bit image in a separate file from the tone-mapped 16- or 8-bit image so I can always go back and revisit the tone mapping operation.
LR supports 32-bit images otherwise you would see nothing. Here is a discussion about why things look different that includes Eric Chan, an Adobe Raw Engineer, to someone bringing up a similar concern a little over a year ago:
ttp://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_preview_of_hdr_tonemapped_i mage_doesnt_match_what_is_shown_in_photoshop_acr
It used to be that Photoshop was the only Adobe product that could open 32-bit files and tone-map them to 16- or 8-bits and I would argue that it did an unsatisfying job. Eventually this capability was added to LR and the ACR plug-in for Photoshop which does a better job, but being raw converters, the starting point looks brighter on screen.
Photomatix is a payfor product that also does a good job with both merging and tone-mapping to 16- or 8-bits. It comes with both a standalone and a plug-in interface. There are others, but Photomatix is the one I’ve tried in the past.

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open automatically - however, process is not started.

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If you delete the XMP files, it's back to square one!
You deleted them to save space? A typical XMP file is probably less than 10kb, which is a tiny fraction of the size of the RAW file. You need to rethink your strategy.

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I tried this recently but failed and I'm trying to figure it out.
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2. Make about 8 versions of the image.
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Now select the next 4 and under-expose them into the - range using the same methodology as described above.
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(According to this Apple document
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302943
the only way to export and maintain the EXIF metadata the version has to be PSD and not a TIFF.)
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Did Photoshop make a new 32 bit HDR document?
Let me know if this worked for you.
Many thanks
love & peace,
victor

Good Morning,
Thank you, joshua, Denny, jrg_uk and Ian
Yes, me too, I was getting the same error message about not having enough dynamic range or as you say joshua it sees the same EXIF settings for all of the shots.
Nevertheless, what I want to do is bracket the exposure levels (f-stop/aperture) and leave the shutter speed alone the way it is done with a camera and tripod but instead do the bracketing within Aperture (the application) and then send the photos (Versions) to the HDR feature in Photoshop CS2.
Thank you for your help!
Back to the drawing board...
love & peace,
victor

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