Yeah, your right... that's what I meant, and what I do.... Brain fart! Brian Cluff On 01/11/2016 11:15 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Careful about using multiple F-Stops. it can alter your depth of field > and give you really weird hazing. it is usually better to alter > shutter speed if anything. so the depth of feild and ISO noise is the > same. > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Brian Cluff > wrote: > > 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. >> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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