Neither of the examples you posted answer your initial question.
You wanted to know how to blend layers together with advanced
lighting techniques where a person lighting the show was often in
frame. The method I described accomplishes that.
The examples you gave are for tone-mapping images (fake HDR) which
is just a way to compress the contrast of the image so that details
that were in the dark are visible without having the more lit areas
be completely blown out.
It's a decent method for shooting real estate photos, and I've used
it myself for quick and dirty shots. What the guy in the video was
doing was lighting everything in it's most optimal way, in a way
that would be impossible to light without having the lights directly
in the shot and then combining the photos in a way that take the
best portions of each photo to make one shot that lookes better than
reality.
If tonemapping/HDR is what you are looking for, use a piece of
software called LuminanceHDR. It's much much easier than using GIMP
to do the same. You can even get decent results with a single RAW
image out of your DSLR camera.
Brian Cluff
On 01/04/2016 06:20 AM, Michael Havens
wrote:
here is another good one.
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