Jerome's images are good shots. i take the lazy way out, i bought a set of plugins that do the blending for me.
although converting RAW at different exposures works, i find that if i just have one exposure, then the Photoshop CS Shadows and Highlights adjustment on the 16-bit image works better. while you are doing the RAW conversion in Photoshop CS, note that decreasing exposure by between 0.5 and 0.7 stops usually results in recoverable headroom that isn't available from a straight conversion. you will have look at the far right of the histogram as you adjust exposure downwards to see if the spike at the edge goes away or not. if it does, you have real headroom to play with. if the spike always remains at the right no matter how much you subtract exposure, you have truly burned out highlights and nothing can bring them back. if you don't have Photoshop CS or you have more than one image file, then the blending works better. i use Reindeer Graphics Optipix for my blending. you can also do it with a pressure sensitive tablet and various layer techniques such as layer masks to do the blending. personally, i find that the plugins do a good enough job i haven't yet resorted to doing it completely by hand. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerome Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Cracked Lens, exposure question, and a PESO > The shots look marvelous - you are pretty close. Herb talks about > sandwiching exposures together to get a larger range. I have just > begun to play with that concept. First couple of attempts were based > on a RAW image that was converted twice - once darker and once > lighter. Then blending them together. > > Perhaps Herb will chime in with more details on how he does it.
