Re: [Gimp-user] to much shine!!!

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

This is fine for landscape photography (even if using the camera in 
"raw" mode makes that somewhat less useful than it used to be), but here 
we are talking about taking picture of moving subjects....


On 08/11/16 23:09, scott092707 aol com wrote:
> Re: what "Steve Kinney admin pilobilus net" said:
>
> "In some instances it is possible to take multiple photos at different
> exposures, and combine them so that the over- and underexposed parts are
> discarded, leaving one natural looking image. "
>
> This technique is exposure-blending or tone-blending (not sure of the exact term,
> or the difference between the two named terms).
>
> In the future, if your camera has "exposure bracketing", I would use it.
> What this does is take (usually 3) exposures, one at what it thinks is the correct exposure,
> one with less exposure, and one with more exposure.,  Normally, one can tell the camera
> how much less/more to go, within certain limits - Mine, for example will go up to one "stop"
> below/above the "correct" exposure.
>
> This is good for (at least) 2 reasons:
> For one thing, your camera might not get the exposure right, and  one of the other two might
> be just what you want.
> Secondly, with three exposures, one can do the exposure-blending (?) method that I described
> in answer to another question recently:
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2016-November/msg00000.html
>
> Basically, you would bring the three photos into GIMP with Open As Layers, and using
> layer masks, have the darker areas of the brighter photo, and the brighter areas of the darker
> photo replace their counterparts in the "correctly exposed" photo.
>
> One can then use Colors->Levels or Colors->Curves on the layer masks to modify how much
> each photo will influence the final result.