Tom Pfeiffer wrote: > I saw this on the Yahoo 10D group and thought others with Canon DSLR's might > find the concept interesting. Has anyone here actually tried compositing two > images for this purpose?
Tom, I shot some landscapes of the cloudy nature. Exposed on purpose to keep all detail on the cloud formations. Basically I compensated the exposure until just all highlight warnings where gone. Back at home I compensated the RAW file +0.5 <-> +1.5 to get the foreground at good light levels. The hard part is to combine the two in photoshop in a seamless way. You have to do a lot of masking and feathering on bring out the detail on the shadows or pull the highlights (depending how you decide to stack them... darker or lighter on top; mostly dependent on where you would work less). With complex scenes you get halos around the masked areas. Finer masking techniques are then required. Fred Miranda has a PS Action to combine two images suposedly taken on tripod with exposure compensation. You can use it to combine two images product of applying DEC (digital exposure compensation) to a RAW file, but in my opinion, the plug-in is not better than doing the masking yourself (it just uses 'select shadows' and starts from there...) I've used the technique also to combine two different exposures of the same scene at much different exposure levels (taken on tripod of course). If you have the time, it can work wonders, but I wouldn't recommend it as a common technique for image-to-image use... unless you like to sit at the computer for ages. -regards, Gerard. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
