Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: bretedge on January 11, 2010, 09:32:14 am
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Hey folks,
I've been a lurker here for waaaaaaay too long. I've posted a bit here and there but am finally jumping in head first. I thought I would start off by sharing a "how-to" article I just published on my blog. Written by Younes Bounhar, this tutorial walks readers step-by-step through the process of blending multiple images together to create a single image with an increased dynamic range. I invite you to read "Exposure Blending by Younes Bounhar" (http://bretedge.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/guest-post-exposure-blending-by-younes-bounhar/). As always, your comments are encouraged and appreciated.
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Hey folks,
I've been a lurker here for waaaaaaay too long. I've posted a bit here and there but am finally jumping in head first. I thought I would start off by sharing a "how-to" article I just published on my blog. Written by Younes Bounhar, this tutorial walks readers step-by-step through the process of blending multiple images together to create a single image with an increased dynamic range. I invite you to read "Exposure Blending by Younes Bounhar" (http://bretedge.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/guest-post-exposure-blending-by-younes-bounhar/). As always, your comments are encouraged and appreciated.
Nice tutorial. Thanks.
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it is a good way when there are dark and light areas well defined, but with a sky through the trees it is much more difficult and this method does not work very well
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Erick. which method would you prefer?
Thx
Eduardo
it is a good way when there are dark and light areas well defined, but with a sky through the trees it is much more difficult and this method does not work very well
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all the examples that you can find Internet are always areas sky-earth , the method described above works very well (or others) and it's never a big problem
but when it is a mix of branches and leaves on a white sky one must fully protect the areas and blend the edges gently into the blue sky (often in product mode), it's impossible with a brush
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all the examples that you can find Internet are always areas sky-earth , the method described above works very well (or others) and it's never a big problem
but when it is a mix of branches and leaves on a white sky one must fully protect the areas and blend the edges gently into the blue sky (often in product mode), it's impossible with a brush
Depending on how much contrast there is between the sky and branches (in at least one layer), blend-if sliders can be a really big help here.
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with a white sky and fringes (without wind ! ) it can be a hard job not to see the work , blend-if sliders (splitting the sliders) is , in my opinion, one of the best tools in photoshop
also making a smart object , median mode, with the 2 layers , sometimes works well
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These two application are working well blending images with high contrasts:
EnfuseGUI takes use of the Open Source application Enfuse:
http://software.bergmark.com/enfuseGUI/Main.html (http://software.bergmark.com/enfuseGUI/Main.html)
Tufuse Pro is based on Exposure Fusion http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~tmertens/...ion_reduced.pdf (http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~tmertens/papers/exposure_fusion_reduced.pdf)
http://www.tawbaware.com/tufusepro.htm (http://www.tawbaware.com/tufusepro.htm)
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blending http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/art_...nks/BlendIf.mov (http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/art_bradley8_blendif/elementLinks/BlendIf.mov)