Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: rgs on August 29, 2007, 11:23:28 pm
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I have a bracketed series of a landscape shot from Rocky Mountain Park that varies by about 3-4 stops. In the lightest the shaded areas of the foreground are great but everything else, especially the sky and distant mountains, are blown out. In the darkest, the highlights are just right but the shadowed areas are far too dark.
The scans are from 6x7 Velvia chromes.
I have made a pretty good print by combining parts of three of the scans by cutting, pasting, and blending them. But there is a halo in one very difficult area and that's a very tedious project.
I have tried the HDR but Photoshop says the chromes don't have enough exposure range for HDR.
I think what I need to do is to overlay three of the images and cause different areas of each layer to be the one that is visible but I don't know how to do that. Can someone point me in the right direction?
RGS
www.myrsphoto.com
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There is a good video tutorial on www.radiantvista.com (free) on blending.
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Thanks, I'll check it out.
RGS
www.myrsphoto.com
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What a great site! It's late and my brain is tired but I downloaded several tutorials and will spend more time on that site. Thanks for the great link.
RGS
www.myrsphoto.com
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What a great site! It's late and my brain is tired but I downloaded several tutorials and will spend more time on that site. Thanks for the great link.
RGS
www.myrsphoto.com
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Agreed - great site - thanks for posting.
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I watched the video. I think it's exactly what's needed and am eager to get to my other machine and try it out. I was on the right track but didn't know the specifics of how to get it done. If I am successful soon enough, I will try to post the result here.
RGS
www.myrsphoto.com