Oops, I guess I should have read the whole thread before replying. I could have saved myself a bunch of typing. Brian Cluff On 01/11/2016 10:14 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Cameras are usually good for 50000-300000 actuations if not more (Ie > mirrorless cameras) > > But the issue with using software to do the over/under expose of the > image you loose the on site expanded dynamic range. Newer cameras can > have some crazy dynamic range, but if you have an older camera or one > that just doesn't have it Multiple exposures is about the only way to > really get the data you need. and ideally you are doing this to expand > you baseline, and extremes parts of the exposure. > > Doing this in software from the same image, even is you do have a raw > image to work with you are still imited to +/- 5-7Ev in most cases. I > think sony can push as far as 11 to 14 but i would need to check my > sources. > > With set of images for HDR you move your EV to + and - 3-5 that then > gives you a huge dynamic range to get details out of the brights and > shadows. > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:48 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. > For the purposes > I need WHat ithe best way to cut a house out and > put it on a blue sky? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list > -PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss