We are human, therefore.... :-D On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > 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 < >> brian@snaptek.com> 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 >>>> >>>> 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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. 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