While you can use software to fake it, it doesn't give you the same quality as you would get from 3 separate images shot at different F Stops. The biggest difference you will see when using a single image is that the darker parts of your fake HDR image will be very grainy/noisy and there will also be some noise that spills over to the rest of the image. You can do a lot better if your single image is a RAW image with it's higher bit-depth instead of it's JPEG equivalent, but even then, without the longer exposure time that you would get from using a larger F-stop the data simply isn't there is be able to expand for HDR (really tonemaped) images. Brian Cluff On 01/11/2016 09:48 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > I was wondering... would using software to over/under expose an image > be the same as taking 3 images which have been physically altered? > Less wear and tear on the camera is good! > > Also, I was watching a tutorial on luminance hdr and in his version > the software had a bunch of variation of an hdr which could be > modified. My version doesn't seem to have that. Is there a setting? > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > Use LuminanceHDR for exposure blending. GIMP is waaaaaay too much > work to get just one way to blending the images. Luminance on the > other hard offers a tons of different methods and then you can > tweak the settings within each method. It's all very easy and > gives you much better results. > > Brian Cluff > > On 01/07/2016 05:51 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > thank you so much man. I really appreciate it. I certaainly > will devote > 10% of my available brain to these videos tomorrow. Do you > know of any > videos or text teaching how to do exposure blending with > gimp2.8? all > the tuts I've been finding are incomplete or are how to do it > with 2.2! > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Brian Cluff > >> wrote: > > There's a ton of ways to do what you want. The biggest > thing you > will have to worry about is lighting. For instance, if > you are > putting something that was lit from the left into a scene > that was > lit from the right, then there is little you can do. No > matter how > carefully you add it to your scene your brain will always > tell you > there is something wrong with the picture. > > I tend to use a couple of different techniques to put one > image into > another. > If the background is a relatively solid color, I'll use a > technique > similar to this example for cutting out images while > preserving fine > details (hair in this example)... hint, you don't use ANY > of the > selection tools, or copy and past. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnbxtMCHKV0 > or > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle81ofRLok > or > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quAChCnK_Dk > > The other way I like combine image is brushing out the > background > using layer masks as demonstrated in this video with the leg: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJAJziWDs0 > > I usually use a combination of the 2 techniques since you > rarely get > perfect results with either method. > > All these methods ultimately use layer masks, which is a > much better > way to combine photos than cutting and pasting since you > can tweak > what is transparent or not back and both without having to > commit to > a certain part of an image like you do with cutting and > pasting. > > Brian Cluff > > > On 01/07/2016 02:58 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > I found a way to super impose an image but it looks tacky. > The method I learned was to open both files and then > to select the > image you want to put on the other with fuzzytool. I > found that > didn't work so I used the path tool. Well I cut the > image out but > the paste doesn't look good. It is out of scale. 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